Endocrine System: Hormones

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  • Oxytocin - stimulates powerful uterine contractions and causes milk ejection
  • Antidiuretic Hormone - causes kidney tubule cells to reabsorb and conserve body water and increases blood pressure
  • Tropic Hormone - stimulates other glands to secrete hormones
  • Growth hormone - promotes total body growth; major effects are directed at skeletal muscles and bones
  • Pituitary Dwarfism - untreated hyposecretion of GH during childhood
  • Gigantism - hypersecretion of GH in childhood
  • Acromegaly - hypersecretion of GH in adulthood
  • Prolactin - stimulates production of breast milk
  • Adrenocorticotropic hormone - Stimulates the adrenal cortex to release its hormones, mainly glucocorticoids
  • Thyroid-stimulating Hormone - stimulates the thyroid gland to release thyroid hormone
  • Follicle-stimulating Hormone - stimulates follicle development and estrogen production by the female ovaries; promotes sperm production in the testes
  • Luteinizing Hormone - stimulates ovulation, causes the ruptured ovarian follicle to produce progesterone; stimulates testes to produce testosterone
  • Gonadotropic Hormone - includes FSH and LH
  • Melatonin - affects sleep-wake cycles; produced by pineal gland
  • Thyroxine - the body’s major metabolic hormone, and increases the rate at which cells oxidize glucose
  • Calcitonin - a response to a high blood calcium ion level
  • Parathyroid Hormone - response to low blood calcium levels
  • Thymosin - promotes maturation of T lymphocytes for body defense
  • Aldosterone - regulates sodium ion (Na+) reabsorption and potassium ion (K+) secretion by the kidneys
  • Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system - the system of hormones, proteins, enzymes and reactions that regulate your blood pressure and blood volume on a long-term basis
  • Atrial natriuretic peptide - reduces blood volume and blood pressure
  • Renin-angiotensin II system - increases blood volume and pressure