PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers. They travel in your bloodstream to tissues or organs. They work slowly, over time, and affect many different processes, including: Growth and development.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hormones can be thought of as chemical messages. From the blood stream, the hormones communicate with the body by heading towards their target cell to bring about a particular change or effect to that cell. The hormone can also create changes in the cells of surrounding tissues (paracrine effect).

Detailed explanation-3: -Hormone are chemical substances which are used for transmitting messages from one part of the body to other. These chemicals regulate the body metabolism and act as messengers. So they are referred as chemical messengers.

Detailed explanation-4: -The different types of chemical messengers are hormones, neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and pheromones.