Week6Vocab

• Control Cellular resperation, growth and reproduction control body fluids
• Control secretion of other hormones
• Control behavior patterns

• Thermostat turns furnace on when temp drops below certain points, turn off once reached
• Hormones function similarly

• Controls secretion of the petuitary gland
• Nerve cells produce chemical signals
• Releasing hormones
• Releasing inhibitory hormones
• Controlled by negative feedback

Produces growth hormone

• Cell metabolism and growth
• too little is dwarfism
• too much is gigantism
• Controlled by releasing hormones from hypothalamus

stimulates thyroid

stimulates adrenal cortex

stimulates melanocytes

• Females (stimulates ovarian follicle)
• Male (Stimulates sperm production)

• Females (stimulates ovulation and progesterone production)
• Males (Testosterone production)

Stimulates the milk production in women

Produces ADH

• Also called Vasopressin
• Increased water absorbtion in kidney tubules
• Deficiency results in diabetes insipidus
• Regulated through osmoreceptors

• Contraction of uterine smooth muscle
• Constriction of mammary cell glands
• Given after childbirth to constrict blood vessels to minimize risk of hemmorage

Located below larynx on either side of the neck

metabolism

Regulation of calcium and phosphate concentration

Located within the posterior thyroid gland secretes parathormone

Stimulates bone cell release of calcium and phosphate

Located on top of each kidney in response to the sympathetic nervous system eponepherine/noreponephrine (from medulla)

• Populated by structures called the islets of Langerhaus
• Beta cells (insulin)
• Alpha Cells (glucogon)
• Negative feedback

• low blood glucose
• Confusion, clumsiness, coma, death

excess ketone production in the urine, dehydration, damage to brain, arteries, and kidneys

Insufficient insulin production

• Located behind sternum
• Secretes thymosin
• Important for T-Cell production
• Thymus shrinks as me age

Located in the brain, near thalmus produces melatonin

• Inhibits reproductive functions
• regulates body rhythm

• Neurotransmitter and vasconstrictor
• stimulates smooth muscle constriction

Produces estrogen and progesterone

Development of female reproductive organs

Produces testosteron

Development of male reproducive organs

Specialized connective tissue

Fluid part. 55% of blood

O2 CO2 nutrients waste and hormones

body pH, body temperature

• the clotting mechanism is the "self-repair" of damage to circulatory system
• Protects against foreign microbes and toxins

RBC - 95% of the volume of blood cells

White Blood Cells

Platlets

91% water, 7% proteins, 2% solutes

Production of red blood cells in red bone marrow

• Biconcave discs, no nucleus, No DNA
• Contains hemogloin
• binds O2 and CO2

• Surround and digest foreign substances
• Produces antihistamines
• Produce heparrin, seratonin

• Monocytes: Phagoctize bacteria and cellular debris
• Macrophages can move around inside tissue
• Lymphocites: T&B