Endocrine System

A chemical transmitter, released in small amounts from glands, and is transported in the bloodstream to target organs or other cells

Ductless gland and release hormone into the bloody stream

Secrete substances/ hormones onto an epithelial surface by way of the duct

Links the nervous and the endocrine system

Functions: Body temperature, mood, hunger, release of hormones, thirst, sleep, and sexual urge

Involves in the body’s response to both physical and emotional stress

Signals the pituitary gland to produce a hormone called adrenocorticotropic hormone

Stimulates the pituitary gland to produce thyroid-stimulating hormone.

Causes the pituitary gland to produce important reproductive hormones, such as follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH)

It controls many important behaviors and emotions such as sexual arousal, trust, recognition, and maternal behavior

also called antidiuretic hormone (ADH)

this hormones regulates water levels in the body

It works to stop the pituitary gland from releasing certain hormones, including growth hormones including growth hormone and thyroid-stimulating hormones

Known as the “master gland” because it controls other hormone-secreting glands

Also called the pineal body, is in the middle of the brain.

It secretes melatonin hormone that may help regulate when you sleep at night and wake up at the morning

Uses iodine from food to make two thyroid hormones: triiodothyronine (T3) and Thyroxine (T4)

Is a hormone that is produced in humans by the C-cells of the thyroid gland

involved in helping to regulate levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood, opposing the action of parathyroid hormone

Release parathyroid hormone, which controls the level of calcium in the blood with the help of calcitonin

is a part of the lymphatic system and also the part of endocrine system

It is relatively large infants and grows until puberty

In adulthood, it slowly start to shrink and become replaced by fat

Hormones that assists in the process where T cells differentiate into different types