help with A&P II endocrine system

EricJRN, MSN, RN · Jul 30, 2006

I'd be surprised if your textbook doesn't have a chart with this info.

lisabeth · Jul 30, 2006

We have to identify primary production sites for hormone, match hormone to function and then give chemical structure. Any suggestions for a website giving this kind of specifics?

We studied that in A&P 1. Our book has a companion website. It was fairly helpful. It was a pretty difficult chapter. Good luck on it. I should probably go back and re-study all of that again. I hate forgetting things I have studied hard to learn, and forgetting wont do you any good when you actually do have that nursing job.

I kept all of my study guides, ect, so maybe it will all come back fairly quickly.

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Jul 30, 2006

i suggest that you review the information from these websites and put together a chart of this information for yourself. this should keep you busy this fine sunday! to find chemical structures, i would do individual searches for each hormone on the internet to see what you can find. i thought i found a site that had a table of them, but they were just pictures and not very scientific.

https://allnurses.com/forums/1643388-post5.html - this was a post i made on allnurses back in may for someone else asking for help with endocrine anatomy. there are other links here that i put together you'll want to check out.

http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio202/index.htm - this links you in to dr. crimando's anatomy & physiology homepage at gateway community college in phoeniz, az. at the left side of the page are links. click on "bio202 outlines", then click on "lecture 1: endocrine system". you should find a good deal of the information you are looking for there.

http://homepage.smc.edu/wissmann_paul/anatomy1/ - this is a page of weblinks to information on the internet about anatomy and physiology from santa monica college anatomy & physiology department. click on "the endocrine system" for a picture and more links to information. again, you will probably find more information to add to what you got from the above site. if you click on #4 "hormones of the human body", you will be taken to a page to a page that has this link http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/biologypages/h/hormonetable.html to a table of hormones which will tell you where the hormone's source is. you can also click on each on the individual hormones on this list for a discussion about them (this is the same link listed below from kimball's biology pages).

http://www.sirinet.net/~jgjohnso/biologyii.html - this without a doubt is one of my most favorite sites to visit. it is a high school a&p site and the color just blares at you! there are plenty of lecture notes, quizzes and practice exercises scattered throughout this extensive site, but no answers. presented in a little easier than college level, i thought this was an awesome introduction to a&p! the section on the endocrine system starts about midway down the page at chapter 50. there are 8 different links on the endocrine system to check out there.

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/biologypages/ - home page of kimball's biology pages. here is a link to the table of human hormones http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/biologypages/h/hormonetable.html

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/aminoacids1.html

JoshuaC · Jul 30, 2006

Shouldn't your physiology book contain that material?

Nurse-To-Be-Joy · Jul 30, 2006

That should definately be in your textbook; I'd be shocked if it wasn't. Anyway, Daytonite gave you some great links and don't forget to look through the A&PII thread. Good luck!

cad4296 · Aug 1, 2006

Our book we use was terrible and didn't outline this easily either. I used this website and it helped out tremendously! http://www.octc.kctcs.edu/gcaplan/anat2/Study%20Guides/Study%20Guide.htm

It has an easy to follow outline and also has some good tips on how to study the endocrine system. Endocrine was killer for me too but I learned it and ended up with an A in the class! You can do it too! Good luck to you!

cardiacRN2006, ADN, RN · Aug 1, 2006

Endocrine will haunt you throughout nursing school as well, so make sure you get a firm foundation in it.