Article Review: The Role of Endocrine Glands in Regulating Animal Body Functions

Dalal Abed Al-Sattar; Abeer Salih Ali; Yaseen Khashman Hussein; Sawsan S  Hamzah

doi:10.55544/sjmars.3.4.6

Authors

Dalal Abed Al-Sattar Department of Biology, College of Science, AL- Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, IRAQ
Abeer Salih Ali Department of Biology, College of Science, AL- Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, IRAQ
Yaseen Khashman Hussein Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Tikrit University, Tikrit, IRAQ
Sawsan S Hamzah Ibn Sina University of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Baghdad, IRAQ.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55544/sjmars.3.4.6

Keywords:

Endocrinemechanisms, Endocrinology, Gland, Neurosecretion, Vertebrata

Abstract

A collection for organs known as the endocrine system is responsible for releasing substances into the bloodstream. Hormones are signaling molecules that leave their place of manufacture that proceed to remote locations where they engage with ligands to have a consequence. While several just affect a particular tissue, others affect almost every cell in the organism. Hormones affect their goals in a variety of ways, ranging from improving nutrition absorption to changing the progression of cells or distinction, amongst numerous other things. A detached gland (pituitary gland, thyroid, etc.) which produces chemicals into the cell's permeable vasculature is usually considered an endocrine tissue. There is abundant blood supply to the endocrine glands. Crucial substances in no typical endosecretory cells, such as insulin from lipids, erythrocyte from the kidney, insulin-like growth factor by the hepatocytes, as ventricular natriuretic peptides from the cardiac muscle, are also released into the bloodstream. Certain endocrine tissues, such as the corpus lutea and placenta, are transient. Endocrine hormones differ in terms of their framework, secretion trends, or function. The discovery of novel endocrine hormones keeps happening.

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