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It secretes a lot of hormones that regulate different things that maintain homeostasis

like the growth hormone promotes growth of body cells and promotes protein synthesis, the thyroid stimulating hormone stimulates the thyroid to secrete thyroxin which regulates metabolic rate, antidiuretic hormone decreases excretion of water by the kidneys and oxytocin helps in childbirth.


theres more hormones secreted by the pituitary but those are the major ones

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