Endocrine System

• Endocrine system - is composed of glands that secrete different types of hormones
• Hormones - control many of your organs, mood, growth and development, metabolism, and reproduction
• Parts of the ENDOCRINE SYSTEM:

  1. Pituitary
  2. Thyroid
  3. Pineal
  4. Parathyroid
  5. Thymus
  6. Adrenal
  7. Pancreas
  8. Testes
  9. Ovaries
• Pituitary gland - endocrine systems master gland
• Pineal - helps our body get ready to sleep and wake up
• Adrenal - provide the body with energy in case of emergency
• Thyroid - regulates body metabolism, and causes storage of calcium in bones
• Parathyroid - controls calcium levels in your body, and normalizes bone growth
• Thymus - enables the body to produce certain antibodies
• Pancreas - regulates blood sugar levels
• Hormones of Pituitary gland:

  Growth hormone

  Prolactin

  Luteinizing Hormone

  Estrogen

  Testosterone
• Pineal gland hormone:

  Melatonin
• Hormones produced by Thyroid gland:

  Thyroxin

  Calcitonin
• Hormones produced by Parathyroid:

  Parathyromone
• Thymus - This gland makes white blood cells called T-lymphocytes that fight infection and are crucial as a child's immune system develops. The thymus starts to shrink after puberty.
• Hormone produced by Thymus:

  Thymosin
• Adrenals - Best known for making the "fight or flight" hormone adrenaline (also called epinephrine), these two glands also make hormones called corticosteroids. They affect your metabolism and sexual function, among other things
• Hormones produced by Adrenals:

  Adrenaline

  Costicosteroids
• Pancreas - This organ is part of both your digestive and endocrine systems. It makes digestive enzymes that break down food.
• Pancreas Hormones - makes the hormones insulin and glucagon. These ensure you have the right amount of sugar in your bloodstream and your cells. 


  If you don't make insulin, which is the case for people with type 1 diabetes, your blood sugar levels can get dangerously high. In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas usually makes some insulin but not enough.
• Hormones of Testes:

  Androgen

  Testosterone 


  Hormones of Ovaries:

  Estrogen

  Progesterone
• Location of Pineal gland:

  Brain


  Location of Pituitary gland:

  Brain
• Loc of Adrenal gland:

  On top of kidney
• Loc of thyroid:

  Neck
• Loc of parathyroid:

  Neck
• Loc of thymus:

  Between the lungs
• Loc of pancreas:

  Behind our stomach
• Loc of ovaries:

  Behind pelvic bone
• Loc of testes:

  Behind pelvic bone
• Ovaries - secretes female hormones
• Testes - secretes male hormones
• Image of the Ovary

  
• Image of the thyroid

  
• Image of the Thymus