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| whawt is the endocrine system composed of? |
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| a group of ductless glands |
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| what is the difference between exocrine and endocrine |
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| exocrine have glands with ducts while endocrine have ductless glands |
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| what does the endocrine system do? |
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| secrete hormones into the blood |
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| proteins or steroids that are chemically synthesized and secreted by a cell-has a target cell which it regulates-travels in teh blood |
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| how does a hormone travel? |
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| a hormone has a target _____ which it regulates |
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| how are most hormones classified? |
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| most are proteins and some are steroids |
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| hypothalamus secretes what? |
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| regulatory hormones that affect the pituitary gland |
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| what did the pituitary gland used to be called? |
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the master gland
now the hypothalamus is the master gland |
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| is a nerve located in the cns or pns? |
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| a tract is a collection of ____ ___ in the ____ |
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| myelinated axons in the cns |
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| cerebral cortex is what type of matter |
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| what is the hypophyseal tract |
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| sometimes called the hypothalamopypophyseal portal system, it is the connection between the pituatary cland and hypothalamus(tract of axons) |
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