homeostasis

Monday, 3 October 2022 11:43 AM

Hormones - chemicals that coordinate the body

• Made in endocrine glands
• Are carried to all parts of the body in the blood
• Organs that react to a hormone = target organ

Thyroxine liver and kidney

Adrenal Respiratory and Increases breathing rate, heart rate, flow
gland circulatory system muscles, conversion of glycogen to glucos
Development of secondary sexual charact
and control menstrual cycle

ovary Development of secondary sexual characte

pancreas liver Increases reabsorption of water by collec

FSH kidneys Increases conversion of glucose into glyco

Pituitary
gland

testes
 Hypothalamus - measure the blood temperature around the body/ in th

Temperature regulation : skin

Vessel - cold = vasoconstriction, veins widen
hot = vasodilation, vein get smaller
Hair - cold = hair stand on the end
hot = hair lie flat

w of blood into the

se
teristics in female

eristics in male x

cting ducts

ogen or storage
he brain
 Negative feedback is a type of regulation in biological systems in which the end of pro
in turn reduces the stimulus of that same process

Low blood glucose - cells may not get enough energy > brain cells will be affected
=> Glucagon breaks the glycogen into glucose
High blood glucose - Insulin convert glucose into glycogen, stayed in the live
 pancreas

oduct of a process

glucagon insulin
pancreas insulin pancreas

liver
glycogen glucose
blood