GENERAL ANATOMY
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
Question
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Senses the body’s needs and sends signals to different organs
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Maintains homeostasis
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Produce sperm and to produce hormones
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Detailed explanation-1: -Your hypothalamus, a structure deep in your brain, acts as your body’s smart control coordinating center. Its main function is to keep your body in a stable state called homeostasis. It does its job by directly influencing your autonomic nervous system or by managing hormones.
Detailed explanation-2: -The function of the hypothalamus is to maintain your body’s internal balance, which is known as homeostasis. To do this, the hypothalamus helps stimulate or inhibit many of your body’s key processes, including: Heart rate and blood pressure. Body temperature.
Detailed explanation-3: -The liver, the pancreas, the kidneys, and the brain (hypothalamus, the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system) help maintain homeostasis. The liver is responsible for metabolizing toxic substances and with signaling from the pancreas maintains carbohydrate metabolism.
Detailed explanation-4: -The hypothalamus is an area of the brain that produces hormones that control: Body temperature. Heart rate. Hunger.
Detailed explanation-5: -The hypothalamus-pituitary complex coordinates the messages of the and nervous systems. It sends signals to the pituitary gland to release or inhibit pituitary hormone production, thus maintaining homeostasis of the body. The hormones from the hypothalamus get transported through the hypophyseal system.