the blood stream
Hormones are chemical substances that
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
transfer information from one set of cells
into the other.
The word hormone is derived from a Greek
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
word "Hormaein" ? to excite or set in motion
The term "Hormone" was first used by
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
E.H.Starling in 1905 to describe SecretinTarget organs: express receptors that bind
the specific hormones to initiate a cellular
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
response
In the dark ages, victors of battle used to eat
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
the organs (brain, heart, gonads) as theyconsidered them to have powers.
Aristotle noted the behavioral and physical
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
effects of castration of roosters
Charles Brown Sequard, French physician
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
gave the concept of endocrine replacementtherapy
Bayliss and Starling, first described hormone -
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Secretin
Change in cell function
Control of growth and development
Alteration in body mass and its composition
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Reproductive functionsDigestion, utilization and storage of nutrients
Regulation of volume and composition of
fluid compartments
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Behavioral changes
Control of senescence
Proteins or peptides:
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Insulin
Secretin
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
IGF (Insulin like GrowthGlucagon
Factors)
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
VIP
LH
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
GIPFSH
ANP
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
TSH
Calcitonin
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
HCGCCK
GH
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
ADH
Prolactin
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
InhibinHPL
Somatostatin
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
PTH
ACTH
Amino Acid
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Steroid Hormones:
derivatives:
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
GlucocorticoidsEpinephrine
Mineralocorticoids
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Norepinephrine
Estrogen
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
DopamineProgesterone
Serotonin
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Testosterone
Thyroxine (T4)
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
1,25-Tri-iodothyronine
Dihydroxycholecalcif
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
(T3)
erol
Feedback control
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Neural controlRhythmic or chronotropic control
Humoral control
Hypothalamus
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Hypothalamic
hormones (RH/IH)
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Ant. PituitaryTrophic
hormones
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Target organ
Physiological
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
effects