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It is used to induce active labor, increase the force of contractions in labor, contracts uterine muscle after delivery of the placenta, controls postpartum hemorrhage, and stimulate milk ejection
Oxytocin or α-hypophamine
It constricts blood vessel, raising the BP
Vasopressin or β-hypophamine
It exists as the () that are found in most mammals, including humans and the (), that are found in pigs and used in the treatment of central diabetes insipidus
arginine form, lysine form
Known as the master gland and conductor of the endocrine symphony.
Anterior pituitary
Its hormones include growth hormone or somatropin, prolactin, and the tropic hormones, FSH, ACTH, LH, and TSH.
Anterior pituitary
Promotes growth.
Growth hormone (GH) or somatropin
Stimulates milk production after childbirth.
Prolactin
Stimulates the production of egg and sperm.
FSH
Triggers ovulation in females and stimulates testosterone in males.
LH
Stimulates the adrenal gland to produce the hormone, cortisol.
ACTH or corticotropin
Stimulates the thyroid gland to secrete its own hormone, thyroxine.
TSH or thyrotropin
A gonad-stimulating polypeptide hormone obtained from the urine of pregnant women
Chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) or Choriogonadotropin
It resembles LH in its response and is used as replacement therapy to stimulate the development of interstitial cells of the testes in delayed adolescence and hypogonadotropic eunuchoidism.
Chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) or Choriogonadotropin
Located at the back of the abdomen, behind the stomach. - A yellowish organ, about 6 inches long and 1.5 inches wide.
Pancreas
is a glandular organ in the upper abdomen but serves as two glands in one: as a digestive exocrine gland, and as a hormoneproducing endocrine gland.
Pancreas
are mediated by hormones secreted by the islets of Langerhans.
endocrine functions
of the pancreas are to produce and release digestive fluids after food enters the stomach, digestive enzymes called, pancreatic juice, travel through several small ducts to the main pancreatic ducts to the bile duct.
exocrine functions
Are small bundles of cells that constitutes the endocrine portion of the pancreas
Islets of the Langerhans
The two main types of endocrine cells that makes up the islets are
α-cells and β-cells.
produce glucagon, which raise the blood;
α-cells
