Endocrine System

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• Where are hormones made?
• What would cause an enlarged adrenal gland?
• What are sublingual glands/salivary glands?
• A 2 year old boy begins severely craving for salt and starts developing sexually. His test results shows hyperglycemia. What endocrine gland is hypersecreting? Why?
• What are examples of epidermal glands?
• How do sweat glands protect the human body?
• What are 3 types of sweat glands?
• Are swollen glands a sign of a viral or bacterial infection?
• Where are antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin stored and released from?
• What is the cause of overactive salivary glands?
• What are the three glands in the human male reproductive system that add secretions to the seminal fluid?
• In humans, which glands produce chemicals that are distributed by the circulatory system and influence various target organs?
• Are muscles and glands part of the central nervous system, receptors, part of the peripheral nervous system, or effectors?
• Do endocrine glands secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream?
• What is the difference in function between Cowper's gland and the seminal vesicle?
• What are the four types of external glands mammals possess?
• Is the parathyroid an endocrine gland? Are sweat glands endocrine glands?
• What are all the hormone secreting glands in the endocrine system?
• What are enlarged montgomery glands? What do they look like?
• How many glands are in the human body?
• What are the glands called that become blocked, resulting in blackheads?
• Do any of the exocrine glands produce hormones?
• Which body system distributes hormones throughout the body?
• What gland in the body secretes insulin?
• What are the main hormones in human body and what is the importance of these hormones in the body?
• What are the side effects of metformin?
• Which hormones control the glucose level of blood?
• Is an allergic reaction related to immune system?
• What do the glands of the body do?
• How are exocrine glands classified?
• How are glands are classified?
• How does pituitary gland affect growth and development?
• How does thyroid gland affect growth and development?
• How many glands are in the endocrine system?
• What glands are found behind the ears?
• What glands are in the brain?
• What glands are known as sweat glands?
• What glands produce sweat?
• Do iguana's have mammary glands?
• What is the purpose of Montgomery glands?
• What is the relation of thyroid with thyroglossal duct? Whys does it later detach from the duct?
• Where is the location of adrenal glands?
• What organ functions as both an endocrine and exocrine organ?
• What is the difference between merocrine and apocrine?
• Can exocrine glands secrete both enzymes and hormones? Do endocrine glands release secretions into the blood?
• What is an example of an apocrine, exocrine, merocrine, and a holocrine gland?
• Is the kidney an endocrine gland?
• What is the name given to the endocrine and exocrine gland which performs both functions?
• Are the brain and liver exocrine glands?
• Are the mammary glands endocrine glands or exocrine glands?
• Exocrine glands classified as compound tubular have what kind of ducts?
• Why are endocrine glands called endocrine instead of exocrine?
• Which kind of exocrine gland has no cytoplasm in its secretion?
• Is saliva an endocrine or exocrine secretion? Why?
• Do endocrine glands release their hormones into ducts, the blood, organs, special tubules, or empty cells?
• Is the pancreas considered part of the endocrine system?
• Why is the pancreas known as a mixed gland?
• What are two immunoglobulins that are found in the secretions of exocrine glands?
• How important are endocrine glands to the body?
• What happens if the endocrine gland over-secretes (secretes too much hormone)?
• What endocrine gland produces glucagon?
• If a gland is the combination of tissues that excretes something, then why is the liver considered as an organ, even though it excretes bile?
• The posterior pituitary is not really an endocrine gland. Why not? What is it?
• Which gland is responsible for height in human beings?
• What is the primary function of the pituitary gland?
• What is the thymus?
• What is a "dual gland" in the human body?
• Are tear glands part of the endocrine system?
• Which gland secretes the hormone androgen?
• Can females get prostate cancer?
• If your thyroid gland was removed, how would it affect your pituitary gland?
• What gland stimulates growth and stimulates secretion of hormones from other glands?
• How many hormones are secreted by the thyroid gland and what are they?
• What gland is oestrogen made in? I thought oestrogen was made in the ovaries, but the question states, "What GLAND is it made in"?
• What is glandular fever?
• How is glandular fever spread?
• How can the pituitary gland be damaged?
• How does a sebaceous gland differ from a sweat gland?
• How does the pituitary gland affect the thyroid?
• How long can glandular fever last?
• What gland produces cortisol?
• What gland secretes growth hormone?
• When a female reaches puberty, the pituitary gland begins to produce hormones that cause what?
• What are the two posterior-pituitary hormones, What are their actions and sites of production?
• Calcitonin is a hormone of what gland?
• Where in the human body is the pituitary gland located?
• Which gland secretes hormones that affect other endocrine glands: pineal, pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, or pancreas?
• Does the posterior pituitary secrete any hormones?
• How do the pituitary and hypothalamus interact to regulate thyroxine levels?
• Where does the pituitary gland release hormones to?
• Which hormone stimulates the testes to produce testosterone?
• Are hormones always proteins?
• How many pituitary glands are in the brain?
• Which one of the following endocrine organs only stores hormones produced by the hypothalamus: the anterior pituitary, the posterior pituitary, the thyroid, the adrenal cortex, or the adrenal medulla?
• Is the pituitary hormone associated most directly with metabolic rate and with growth and development ACTH, TSH, FSH, LH, or ADH?
• What is the role of hormones in the menstrual cycle?
• Are the hormones that the pituitary gland secretes for puberty in boys the same as the the hormones secreted in girls?
• Do polar hormone molecules pass directly through cell membranes and bind to intracellular receptors?
• Which two hormones are responsible for the “fight-or-flight” response?
• Is parathormone an anterior pituitary hormone?
• Deep voice and the muscular body characteristic in males is the product of what?
• What is melatonin? What is its role in human physiology?
• How is the release of anterior pituitary hormones regulated?
• How do pituitary hormones affect the function of the testis?
• How do pituitary hormones affect the ovaries?
• How can you increase pituitary gland hormones?
• What anterior pituitary hormones stimulates growth?
• What are the anterior pituitary hormones?
• What pituitary hormones regulate fluid balance?
• Why does diabetes affect the feet? Once your sugars are under control, will your ability to heal at a normal pace come back?
• Pituitary gland works under the influence of hypothalamus. Then why the name master gland for pituitary?