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| Secretes onto surfaces or into lumens | Exocrine glands |
| Secretes hormones into the blood | Endocrine glands |
| Master gland | Pituitary gland |
| Mixed gland | Pancreas |
| Examples of exocrine glands | Mammary, salivary and lacrimal glands |
| 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 |
| 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 |