REGULATOR OF GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT
REGULATING THE CONCENTRATION
OF BODY FLUID
METABOLISM OF CARBOHYDRATE,
PROTEIN, AND LIPIDS
ACTS TOGETHER WITH NERVOUS
SYSTEM TO HELP BODY TO REACT
TO STRESS PROPERLY
PINEAL GLAND
RELEASES MELATONIN, REPRODUCTIVE
BEHAVIOUR
LOCATED IN DIENCEPHALON (THIRD
VENTRICLE OF THE BRAIN)
HYPOTHALAMUS
NEUROENDOCRINE ORGAN
LOCATED BENEATH THALAMUS IN
LOWER WALLS
PITUITARY GLAND
POSTERIOR LOBE : STORE HORMONES
FROM HYPOTHALAMUS.
ANTERIOR LOBE : INFLUENCED BY HYPOTHALAMIC
HORMONE.
ATTACHED TO HYPOTHALAMUS WITHIN THE
SPHENOID BONE
THYROID GLAND
INCREASE THE RATE OF CELLULAR METABOLISM
LOCATED ON THE TRACHEA, INFERIOR TO THE LARYNX
PARATHYROID GLANDS
STIMULATE THE RELEASE PARATHYROID
HORMONE, TO INCREASE CALCIUM ABSORPTION
THYMUS
DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSES
LOCATED DEEP TO STERNUM
ADRENAL GLANDS
ADRENAL CORTEX : REGULATE SODIUM ION &
POTASSIUM ION REABSORPTION BY THE KIDNEYS
ADRENAL MEDULLA : PRODUCES CATECHOLAMINES TO
SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
LOCATED IN KIDNEYS
PANCREAS
COMPOSED OF BOTH ENDOCRINE AND EXOCRINE
GLAND CELLS
LOCATED BEHIND STOMACH
OVARY
ESTROGENS : STIMULATE MATURATION OF FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS & FEMALE SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC
PROGESTERONE : WORKS WITH ESTROGENS ESTABLISHING THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE
LOCATED IN ABDOMINOPELVIC CAVITY
TESTIS
TESTOSTERONE PROMOTES MATURATION OF THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
LOCATED IN THE SCROTUM
A MAJOR CONTROLLING SYSTEM
OF THE BODY
EFFECTS ARE MEDIATED BY HORMONES
CHEMICAL SUBTANCES SECRETED BY CELLS
INTO EXTRACELLULAR FLUID (BLOODSTREAM)
ALL HORMONES ARE AMINO ACID-BASED
OR STEROIDS
REGULATE : CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, METABOLISM, MUSCLE ACTIVITY, GLANDULAR SECRETIONS AND IMMUNE SYSTEM
CONTROL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
REGULATE OPERATION REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
RECOGNIZE CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS
DIABETES MELLITUS
OBESITY
THYROID DISEASE