PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Breastfeeding, Gonadotropin, Scrotum
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Releases steroid hormones but not considered a sex gland because primary function is regulation of glucose & salt levels: pituitary releases tropic hormones: hormones whose primary function is to influence the release of hormones from other glands, gonadotropin: tropic hormone that stimulates the release of hormones from the gonads, posterior pituitary: the part of the pituitary gland that contains the terminals the hypothalamic neurons, pituitary stalk: the structure connecting the hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary gland, anterior pituitary: the part of the pituitary gland that releases tropic hormones (cid:224) the master gland", posterior & anterior begin separately and attach during embryological. Female gonadal hormone levels are cyclic; male gonadal hormone levels are: in females, the levels of gonadal and gonadotropic hormones go through a repeating cycle (cid:224) menstrual cycle, in males, levels of gonadal and gonadotropic hormones stay steady, transplantation experiment: when anterior pituitary transplanted from female to male, it became steady.
