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Secretes hormones into the blood

Question	Answer
Secretes onto surfaces or into lumens	Exocrine glands
Secretes hormones into the blood	Endocrine glands
master gland	pituitary gland
mixed gland	pancreas
Space inside a tubular structure	lumen
Examples of exocrine glands	mammary, salivary and lacrimal glands
Needed by cells to respond to a hormone	receptor
Organs the produce steroid hormones	gonads & adrenal medulla
Example of a gland controlled neuronally	adrenaline for the adrenal medulla
Example of a gland controlled humorally	insulin from the pancreas
water fearing ( not water soluble)	Hydrophobic
Water loving (water soluble)	Hydrophilic
Precursor to steroid hormones?	cholesterol
Hormones that effect only nearby cells?	paracrine
Secreted into blood and effect distant cells?	endocrine
Hydrophobic hormones?	steroid hormones
Hydrophilic hormones?	peptide hormones
Steroid hormone made by testes?	testosterone
Steroid hormones made by ovaries?	estrogen & progesterone
Steroid hormone made by the adrenal cortox?	glucocorticoids, adrenocorticoids & mineralocorticoids
~4 glands imbedded in posterior thyroid gland?	parathyroid glands
Made in response to hypocalcemia?	parathyroid hormone
A condition of low blood calcium levels?	hypocalcemia
Activates osteoclasts to degrade bone?	parathyroid hormone
Causes the kidney to retain Ca 2+?	parathyroid hormone
Three targets of the parathyroid hormone?	kidney, bone, intestines
Increases absorption of dietary Ca 2+?	parathyroid hormone