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