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