Endocrine system help

[CDOW82]

Hi Ladels and Guinea pigs....

I'm a student nurse in Glasgow and getting stressed about how to learn endocrine system. I'm trying to make a spider web (mind map) but what information is important??

Can someone give me a general over view of what endocrine system does, the functions, locations and nature.

Please?

[Jonathank]

It sends signals. The function of many hormones is simply to cause the release of subsequent hormones. There are too many functions of the hormones at the end of the signal chains to name them all here. Location: begins in hippocampus, goes to pituitary, then to the bloodstream and to many diverse glands throughout the head neck and trunk. Nature (of hormones?): varies, but many are steroids.

Make that hypothalamus.

[RebeccaV]

I loved the endocrine system... my teacher focused mostly on disorders, and if it came from hyper or hypo and what hormone triggered it, and what hormone would counter it. The endocrine system does so much, its really hard to summarize it, but I think the easiest way I learned it, was we took by gland, then looked at each hormone - what triggered its release, where the release came from, what its release regulated and then what hyper or hypo release would cause