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Endocrine glands secrete their products
into what?
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Body Fluids
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Where is the pituitary gland located?
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base of the brain
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Oxytocin is responsible for what two events?
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Contracts muscles in the uterine wall
Contracts certain cells associated with breast milk
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Where is the thyroid gland located?
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Neck
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What are the three main hormones produced in the thyroid gland?
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thyroxine, triiodothyconine, calcotronine.
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Which hormone increses blood calcium ion concentration, and decreases blood phosphate ion concentration?
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Paraphyroid Hormone
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Adrenal glands are located where?
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on top of the kidneys
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Islets of langerhans secrete what three hormones?
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glucogen, insulin, somatostatin
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Pineal glands help regulate what?
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female reproductive cycle
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Where is the thymus gland located?
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Between lungs
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The thymus gland produces thymosin that helps provide what?
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Immunity
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What does the response to stress help provide?
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Homeostasis
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