KINESIOL 2YY3 Lecture 29: L29 Endrocrine Sytem

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KINESIOL 2YY3
• Professor: Krista Howarth

Document Summary

Also released during deep sleep (non-rem), increased sns and when blood fatty acids lo. Need enough hours of sleep to stimulate hgh for body tissue repair during sleep. In liver -- speedup breakdown of glycogen in the liver when low blood glucose. Acromegaly ids low or amino acids high hgh to stop being rom the anterior pituitary. Higher than normal levels of hgh before you reach adolescence. After bones and plates are reached maximum level (ossified) Doesn"t make you taller bc at maximum height. Larger than normal hands and feet (they seal up later) Hypothalamus regulates thyrotrophic cells in anterior pituitary via thyrotropin releasing h. Tsh stimulates the synthesis & secretion of two thyroid hormones - t3 and t4. Blood concentration of t3 and t4 control trh release (negative feedback) Fsh functions formation of follicles within the ovary stimulate the follicles to secrete estrogen stimulates sperm production in testes. Inhibited by estrogen in females and testosterone in males.