NURS 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Thyroid, Pituitary Gland, Pineal Gland
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Anatomy and physiology: endocrine system workings or function of a cell when the binding would take place. The endocrine system regulates body processes slower than the nervous system. If the latter body system uses nerve impulses to make immediate action, the former body regulating system acts by the use of chemical messengers called. Hormones, which are released into the blood to be transported leisurely throughout the body that may affect one or several organs. Glands make up the endocrine system and are responsible for producing and secreting hormones. The major glands of this body system are the following: hypothalamus, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, parathyroids, adrenals, pineal body, reproductuive organs ovaries in females and testes in males, pancreas. After hormone binding occurs, cellular activity is altered by either increasing or decreasing its normal rate, or maintaining its usual metabolic process or a new process is stimulated.
