Science

Endocrine system:

Which of these glands are mixed: thyroid, ovaries, parathyroid, testes, pituitary, pancreas, sweat,

mammary, adrenal

Pancreas:

Where is it located in human and cat, be able to recognize it.

What is the islet of Langerhans or pancreatic islet?

What are the functions of alpha and beta cells?

Beta cells make and release insulin and Alpha cells secrete glucagon. Glucagon is a hormone that breaks down glycogen (stored in the liver) into glucose.

What are acinar cells?

It synthesizes, stores, and secretes digestive enzymes.

How do insulin and glucagon affect blood glucose level?

Insulin brings your blood sugar down when it is high enough to take an insulin shot. Glucagon brings your blood sugar up when it gets so low that you begin having seizures and effects like that.

Pituitary gland:

Recognize the slide of anterior and posterior pituitary

Which hormones are produced or released by either lobe?

The anterior lobe and the posterior lobe. The anterior lobe regulates the activity of the thyroid, adrenals, and reproductive glands.

The posterior lobe of the pituitary releases antidiuretic hormone, which helps control the balance of water in the body. The posterior lobe also produces oxytocin, which triggers the contractions of the uterus in a woman having a baby.

Which cells are found in each of the 2 lobes?

Vasopressin and oxytocin

Thyroid gland:

Recognize the slide, the location in the body

Which hormones does it produce? How do they affect the human body?

Affect your metabolism rate, which means how fast or slow your brain, heart, muscles, liver, and other parts of your body work.

Iodine for hormone production. The thyroid gland produces two primary hormones - thyroxine (also referred to as T4) and tri-iodothyronine (also referred to as T3).

What is the role of follicles?

vesicular components of the thyroid gland lined with epithelium and containing colloid in varying amounts; the colloid serves for storage of the thyroid...