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    at the National Track and Field Championships for the 800m event. In the alarm stage, the body encounters a stressor. The stressor will cause the body to react with the fight or flight response.Next, the nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis will be

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    Your mind 's astounding hypothalamus additionally sends signs to your pituitary organ at the base of your cerebrum, letting it know to discharge considers that inside a couple of minutes have gone through your circulation system and fortified your adrenal cortex to create an anxiety hormone – cortisol. Cortisol is critical in your anxiety reaction - keeping your glucose and pulse up to help you escape from threat. Catecholamine’s enact a territory inside the mind called the amygdala , which seems

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    The Adrenal glands secretes compounds including cortisone and adrenaline which helps you react to emergencies. This gland regulates your metabolic process in the cells and blood pressure. The Pineal gland produces melatonin, which helps regulate reproductive

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    helps with taking care of the body’s nutrients, prolactin, which is a milk-producing hormone in females, thyrotropin, which sends signals to the thyroid to produce hormones, and corticotropin, which also sends signals to produce hormones, but to the adrenal gland. The hypothalamus produces anti-diuretic hormone, which raises up the water absorption in the blood in the kidneys, oxytocin, which aids in the contraction of uterine smooth muscles and contraction of mammary gland cells, or lactation. The

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    As an adolescent, hormones are raging and as their brains are continuing to develop hormones play a big role in their future learning and memory. The hormonal fluctuations of adolescent stress coupled with their gonadal hormone ups and downs, impact their learning capabilities and memory retrieval. Males with the predominance of testosterone learn in a unique way and exhibit certain advantages like spatial learning over females. Females on the other hand, with the predominance of estrogen exhibit

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    It is normally produced by both the adrenal glands and certain neurons. It is commonly used as a medicine in a number of conditions such as cardiac arrest, anaphylaxis, and superficial bleeding. It plays an important role in the fight-or-flight response by increasing blood flow to muscles,

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    The thyroid gland is different; the hormones are stored in cavities, surrounded by secretory cells, which make up a follicle.  In order to secrete the hormone, the hormone is re-absorbed from the cavity and then released into the interstitial spaces.  There are two parts to the pituitary gland, the anterior pituitary and the posterior pituitary.  The anterior pituitary has two types of chromophils, acidophilus and basophils.  These two are separated into different classes of cells that have differing

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    Corticosterone is formed in the cortex of the adrenal glands. For many animals, corticosterone serves as a glucocorticoid. A glucocorticoid is a type of steroid hormone that moderates metabolism of glucose. Glucocorticoids are commonly known as stress hormones. Therefore, corticosterone is a hormone

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    The endocrine system is made up of organs and tissues that produce hormones. Hormones are natural chemicals produced in one place, secreted into the bloodstream and then used by other organs and target systems. Hormones control the target organs. Some organic systems have their own internal control systems in place of the hormones or together with them. As we get older, natural changes occur in the way in which body systems are controlled. Some target tissues become less sensitive to the hormone

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    Assignment I Hans Selye was an endocrinologist who was considered the first scientist to study the effects of stress on homeostasis (6). He worked for John Hopkins, McGill University, and the University of Montreal (14). He first described his theory on general adaptation in 1936 and introduced the concepts of eustress and distress (6). According to Selye’s theory, stress is any factor that threatens homeostasis in an individual (6). He reasoned that there must be a generalized stress response without

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