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    and glands throughout the body produce hormones. As generations progress, new psychological and behavioral traits are earned and learned. This paper will explain hormones and the endocrine system, glands associated with the endocrine system, behavior genetics, and evolutionary psychology. The endocrine system is the system of the body in which releases hormones into the bloodstream. The hormones then cause different reactions within the body, and these reactions shape

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    major organ of the endocrine system, the anterior pituitary (also called the adenohypophysis or pars anterior), is the glandular, anterior lobe that together with the posterior lobe (posterior pituitary, or the neurohypophysis) makes up the pituitary gland (hypophysis). (Oxford University Press, 2015) Etiology The pituitary gland is a grape-sized endocrine gland located at the base of the brain. The pituitary regulates and controls the secretion of hormones from other endocrine glands, which in turn

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    The most common endocrine system malignancy in the Unites States is thyroid cancer. The majority of diagnosed thyroid cancers are classified as differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). More specifically, these cancers are either papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) or follicular thyroid cancers (FTC), with 80.2% being diagnosed as papillary and 11.4% as follicular (Avram, 2012). DTC is the fifth most common cancer among females and has ten year survival rates of 97% for PTC and 94% for FTC (Khan et al.

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    “Stress is a silent disease” (Doctor Hobel). Over the years, stress has played a major rule in a large majority of people’s lives throughout the United States. When thought about, it is said to be extremely surprising as to how many people really have stress in each individual’s life. People do not consider what the reasons are for the feelings and emotions they experience. There are all different types of stress, and stress can do a lot to a person. Each person also handles stress in a different

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    fungicidal reaction, too few amino acids remain to allow for protein biosyntheis to occur, which causes alterations in the metabolism of microorganisms, providing carcinogenic reactions in these endocrine disruptors (Farsa et al., 2011). Endocrine disruptor refers to any chemical that disrupts the endocrine system. One of the ways this can occur is by the chemical mimicking a natural hormone that the body already produces, as seen in figure 2. This causes the body to overproduce a

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    Nervous System to Endocrine System The Endocrine System carries hormones into the blood and other body fluids. These chemicals are most important for our growth, responses to stress, metabolism and water and mineral balance. The hormones that the endocrine system distribute throughout the body provide feedback to the brain for neural processing. The reproductive hormones can somehow affect the nervous system development. The Hypothalamus controls some of the endocrine glands. 2. Nervous System to Digestive

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    Question 1: a) The two processes, with which a cell passes this DNA sequence onto other cells, are DNA replication and mitosis. The cell cycle is inclusive of mitosis and DNA replication, the latter of which occurs in the S phase (synthesis) of the cycle. The goal of the S phase is to create two identical semi-conservative chromosomes. The enzyme helicase unwinds the parental DNA double helix strand and uses it as a template so the enzyme DNA polymerase can attach free-floating nucleotides to the

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    Metabolism Definition: The break down and formation of chemical substances in the body that is needed for energy, for formation and breakdown of tissues and cells, and to maintain homeostasis of the body. Concept Key Terms: • Adrenal: endocrine glands that are located on top of the kidneys and are responsible for several hormones like aldosterone, corticosteroids, • Aldosterone: hormone secreted from the adrenal gland to signal the kidneys to retain sodium from the excretion • Autocrine: a hormone

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    Reproductive System 4.0 Having a child is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do. According to the Center for Disease Control, It is actually the sixth most common cause of death among women age 20 to 34 in the United States [1]. Also, with discomfort ranging from bladder pressure, back pain, hip pain, and of course the actual labor process, it is safe to say that the female reproductive system could use some improvements, including components in the muscular, skeletal, and endocrine systems

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    Thyroid Research Paper

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    First let’s take a look at what is the thyroid: The thyroid gland which belongs in the (Endocrine System) is a butterfly-shaped gland that’s located in the front of the neck. The main purpose of the thyroid is that it runs the body metabolism. Hypothyroidism an autoimmune disease what I was diagnosis with some years ago. Now, the autoimmune disease occur when one’s body produces antibody that attacks its own tissue and this can includes the thyroid gland. Hypothyroidism is a condition in where the

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