Endocrine-System-Concept-Map

Ovaries Hypothalamus

- Disease - Regulates

- Ovarian - Sleep
Csysts
- Body Temperature
- Ovarian
Cancer - Thirst

- Oesteoporosis - Hunger

- Produces
Parathyroid
- Progesterone

- Estrogen - Function

- Manifestations - Regulates the blood's

calcium and phosphate
- Hot levels
Flashes
- Allows the muscular and
- menstration nervous systems to funtion
propertly
- Mood
Swings - Hypoparathyriodism

- Influences - Decreased thyroid hormone

production
- Sex
drive - Causes muscle cramps,
convolutions and tingling
- Blood
Circulation - Hyperparathyriodism

- Excessive thyroid hormone

Adrenal Glands
production
- Adrenal - Causes dehydration and bone
Medulla tenderness
- Produces
Adrenaline
Pituitary Gland
- Fight or
Flight - Anterior
Pituitary
- Adrenal
Cortex - Follicle Stimulating
Hormone
- Aldersterone
- Testes
- Regulation of blood
pressure - Sperm
Production
- Cortisol
- Ovaries

- Stress
Hormone - Egg
Production

- Prolactin
Thyroid Gland

- Hormones - Milk
Production
- Low Levels
- Stimulates
- Fatigue
- Muscle Growth
- iritablilty
- Bone Growth
- Need Iodine
- Muscle Growth
- Overactive Thyroid
- Sex
- High levels
Hormones
- Produces
- Luteinising
- T3
- Controls the production of sex
- T4 steroids like estrogen and
testosterone
- Effects
- Growth Hormones
- Energy Levels
- Deficient
- Metabolism
- Results in Dwarfism

- Ecsessive
Pancreas
- Results in Giantism
- Disorders
- Posterior
- Hypoglycemia Pituitary

- Low Blood - Oxytocin

Glucose

- Anger, stubbornness, or sadness - Stimulates the contraction of

the Uterus muscles
- Unconsciousness
- Antidiuretic
- Seizures

- Headaches
- Reclaims water from the Kidney
- Nervousness or anxiety and conserves it in the
bloodstream
- Shakiness

- Hyperglycemia
Thymus
- High Glucose
levels - Thymus gland does not
function for an entire
- Increased thirst lifetime

- Frequent urination - Located in the upper anterior of the

chest
- Type 2
Diabetes - Thymosin

- Can produce
insuline - Stimulates the production of
T-Cells
- Do not use it
correctly - T-Cells are a specific form of white blood
cells
- Contracted
from - Assist the immune system in
fighting off disease
- Lifestyle
Choices

- DIet

- Lack of
exercise

- Type 1
Diabetes

- Body does not produce

insuline

- Cannot handel the Glucose

Fluxuations

- Hormones

- Vasoactive intestinal
peptide

- Somatostatin

- Insulin

- Glucacon

- Gastrin

- Essentials

- Diabetes

- maintains body's
glucose