The endocrine system produces and regulates the body's hormones. Hormones are chemical substances created and distributed by the body to act as "messengers" and coordinate functions of various body parts. Most hormones are proteins consisting of amino acid chains; some are steroids, fatty cholesterol-produced substances.
Although many different hormones circulate in the bloodstream, each affects only the cells that are genetically programmed to respond to it. Hormone levels can be influenced by stress, infection and changes in the balance of fluid and minerals in blood.
A gland is a group of cells that produces and secretes chemicals. Endocrine glands release more than 20 major hormones directly into the bloodstream, where they may be transported to cells in other parts of the body.
The major parts of the endocrine system include:
well, it keeps you alive and kickin'. But that's nothing too special =P
The endocrine system is a system of glands, each of which secretes a type of hormone directly into the bloodstream to regulate the body.
They transfer information from one set of cells to another to coordinate the functions of different parts of the body.
Secretion of hormones from cells
Secretion of hormones from cells
The Endocrine System.
The nervous system works closely with the endocrine system to coordinate body functions.
That would be the Endocrine system.
The nervous and endocrine systems control the physiologic and metabolic functions of the body.
adrenal and pituitary glands
it has the same functions
The endocrine systems work with the nervous system but they have a few different functions. The endocrine systems use hormones not nerves, the endocrine system is slower than the nervous system because it flows through the blood not the nerves, and the endocrine system also has gland and the nervous system does not.
Both the ovary and pancreas have endocrine functions. The ovary also functions in the reproductive system, and the pancreas has an exocrine function in the digestive system.
The endocrine system is an organ system. When studying the parts of the endocrine system and their structure, you are studying anatomy. When studying how the endocrine system works, you are studying physiology.
The system that works closely is the nervous system
The endocrine system which is formed of all endocrine glands of body which along with nervous system of body, controls and coordinates the body functions and maintains a homestasis inside the body.
Endocrine system