Endocrine glands are made of ______ tissue

The control of blood sugar shown here is an ______ feedback.

Labor contractions leading to childbirth are an example of an oxytocin ______ feedback loop.

Water soluble (polar) hormones require a protein _____ to communicate with target cells.

Lipid soluble hormones require ______ proteins to provide temporary solubility in body fluids. This allows them to be circulated.

Which of the following is NOT a stimulus for endocrine gland secretion.

Mediator molecules released in one part of the body that regulates activity in other parts of the body are called...

The endocrine systems works _____ than the nervous system when regulating other systems.

Hormones are released...

The _____ in the diencephalon of the brain is the major link between the nervous system and the endocrine system as it controls all things homeostatic.

The _____ gland, labeled F, is often called the "master gland" as it produces many trophic hormones that control other endocrine glands.

The _____ gland, labeled D, produces melatonin to set the day/night cycle (circadian rhythm).

The endocrine organ labeled B in the diagram is the...

Females produce and secrete sex hormones from the _____ and the _____.

The ______, labeled C, produces and secretes the two hormones responsible for maintaining blood glucose levels, insulin and glucagon.

The four little groups of endocrine cell tissue that sit on the back of the thyroid and produce the hormone most responsible for controlling blood calcium levels, labelled H, make up the _____ gland.

An endocrine cell that produces and secretes a hormone that acts on the cell itself would be considered...