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Endocrine system
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What is the endocrine system ?
Network of
glands
throughout body that manufacture and secret chemical messengers (horomones)
Uses blood vessels to deliver
hormones
to target organs
Endocrine and
NS
work closely together to regulate
physiological
process of body
What are endocrine glands ?
Pituitary
,
thyroid
,
pancreas
,
adrenal
,
ovaries
,
testes
Each gland produces different hormones which regulate the activity of organs and tissues in the body
What are hormones ?
Chemicals that circulate
bloodstream
and are carried to target sites
Affect target cells which respond to a hormone because they have
receptors
for specific hormone
Enough receptor sites stimulated =
physiological
reaction