ENTMLGY 2101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Blood Sugar, Gastrin, Somatostatin

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We will all change structurally and biochemically. Lifecycle: sum of all the changes that take place over the course of animal life. Hormones: chemicals that are produced by one organ which then travel to another to have their effect. Hormones are factors that regulate our growth and development. Endocrine system (in humans and insects): master regulator of growth and development that secretes hormones that will circulate around the body to promote growth and development. Another function is to maintain homeostasis (balance) within the body; regulates appetite, metabolism, digestion, water balance, heart rate, and reproduction. A reductionist view is that our bones, muscles, skin, internal organs, and veins must grow gradually. This happens until puberty and is mediated by hormones and growth factors. Hormones that are responsible for human growth: growth hormone-releasing hormone and somatostatin (produced by the hypothalamus). These repress the anterior pituitary gland from releasing the final growth hormone hch (human growth hormone).

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