Hormones

• Glands

  • Parathyroid
  • Thyroid
  • Pancreatic islets
  • Adrenal cortex
  • kidney
  • Anterior pituitary
  • Posteri pituitary
  • Ovaries
  • Testes
• Parathyroid hormone


  Increases blood calcium levels and excretion of phosphate in kidney
• Thyroxine (T4) 


  growth and metabolic rate
• Cortisolcarbohydrate metabolism
• Luteinizing hormone


  Causes ovulation
• Prolactin growth of mammary glands
• progesterone 


  Primary female sex hormone, responsible for female sex characteristics
• Testosterone


  Primary male sex hormone, responsible for male sex characteristics
• Androgens


  Promote spermatogenesis in testes
• Triiodothyronine (T3)

  •metamorphosis
• Insulin

  •Hypoglycemics factor
• Glucagon

  •liver glycogenolysis
• Aldosterone

  • mineral metabolism
• Adrenal androgens

  • androgenic activity
• Renin

  • Hydrolysis of blood precursors protein to yeild angiotensin
• Interstitial cell stimulating hormone

  • Formation of testosterone and progesterone in interstitial cells
• Mammotropin

  •lactation
• vasopressin

  •contraction of blood vessels
• Oxytocin

  •kidney reabsorption of water
• Estradiol

  •Estrous cycle