Sentences with phrase «to secrete hormones»

The pituitary gland secretes a hormone known as ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone... say that three times fast).

During pregnancy the body secretes hormones such as estrogen, progesterone and relaxin that remain in the body after childbirth for approximately six months.

The vitamin has an important role to play in the body because it supports the adrenal glands by secreting hormones like cortisone.

To adjust for this rapid rise, the pancreas secretes the hormone insulin into the bloodstream.

The first gland in the chain is called the hypothalimus, which secretes a hormone which tells the pituitary gland how much hormone to create.

The pancreatic gland is responsible for secreting hormones such as insulin and glucagons into the bloodstream to regulate blood sugar levels, as well as making the digestive enzymes that break down food for digestion.

On top of aiding digestion, the pancreas is also an endocrine gland, meaning that it also secretes hormones in the blood stream.

With stress, the adrenal glands also secrete another hormone called epinephrine.

The body secretes this hormone into the blood during digestion.

Once you enter the fourth week of your pregnancy, the embryo has implanted itself well inside the uterus and started to grow at full pace and your body is also secreting a hormone known as hCG or human chorionic gonadotropin hormone.

«People naturally secrete the hormone melatonin, which helps to regulate the circadian rhythm,» He said.

The thyroid secretes a hormone called T4 that gets converted into an active thyroid hormone called T3 which is needed for all cells of the body to be metabolically active.

The accumulation of visceral fat is dangerous, since these fat cells actively secrete hormones that can disrupt the functioning of the liver, pancreas, and brain, causing problems such as insulin resistance, inflammation and metabolic syndrome.

The hypothalamus secretes hormones which stimulate the pituitary (both the hypothalamus and pituitary are in the brain), which stimulate the adrenal glands to manufacture and release hormones that help us to respond to stress (like cortisol and epinephrine.)

Light tells their brains that it's time for activity and alertness, and the brain secretes hormones accordingly, so we want to keep that nursery absolutely pitch black during naps and bedtime.

These tumors do not secrete hormones and do not cause signs or symptoms.

For example, fat cells secrete the hormone leptin, an important regulator of body weight.

Insulin is a naturally secreted hormone that the body needs in order to use glucose for energy.

Ashley Hosmer, an intern supporting the research project, swabs a northern leopard frog to collect secreted hormones tested for stress levels.

When you breastfeed, the pituitary gland secretes the hormone oxytocin, which primarily acts to contract smooth muscle such as the sacs of milk in your breast.

This gland is butterfly - shaped and secretes the hormones T3 and T4.

«Finding the link between motility and autophagy in the intestine will require further research, but we speculate that inhibiting autophagy in the gut may impair the gut's ability to metabolize nutrients or secrete hormones important for the function of other organs.»

Even though chromosomes mark the cells as male or female, they don't head down that path until after the gonads — testes in a male, ovaries in a female — begin developing and secreting hormones at about 7 weeks.

Human stem cells successfully used to generate functional pituitary tissue capable of secreting hormones when transplanted into rats with hypopituitarism

A vicious cycle ensues, keeping your adrenals in overdrive, meaning they're constantly secreting hormones like cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine; lower progesterone and higher stress - hormone levels tell your brain to freak out.

A dog's pancreas secretes the hormone insulin, which is responsible for blood sugar regulation.

A large ductless gland in the neck that secretes hormones regulating growth and development through the rate of metabolism.

For example, the pituitary stimulates the thyroid to secrete its hormones with thyroid - stimulating hormone, or TSH.

Most significant here, is the effect on our adrenals, the glands that sit on top of our kidneys that produce and secrete the hormones epinephrine («adrenaline») and cortisol.

Hyperadrenocorticism or Cushing's disease is a condition where the adrenal glands are overproducing and secreting the hormone cortisol.

The endocrine system secretes hormones that affect mood and behavior, and sometimes those levels can become imbalanced.

The placenta secretes a large amount of corticotrophin - releasing hormone (a stress reducing hormone) in the third trimester, and may trigger the hypothalamus in the brain, which normally secretes the hormone, to stop producing it.

In the late stages of pregnancy, your placenta secretes a hormone to prepare you for labor that makes joints loose and ligaments unusually flexible.

The mice had GNRH in their hypothalamus, suggesting that the mutated gene doesn't prevent the hypothalamus from making GNRH, but somehow prevents it from secreting the hormone, the two teams report in the 23 October issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

His research team discovered one means to prevent the loss of skeletal muscle in diabetes is to reduce myostatin, a natural secreted hormone that represses muscle growth.

THE MOTIVE Nestled about the body, endocrine glands like the thyroid, ovaries, testes, kidneys, and the heart secrete hormones, controlling crucial processes like hunger, blood pressure, and sexual reproduction.

It influences the rhythms of our autonomic system and spurs our endocrine system to secrete hormones associated with everything from sleepiness to stress — and it is extremely hard to ignore.

Sometimes called the «policeman of the abdomen,» the omentum is known to secrete hormones related to obesity, and we're still learning new information about its functions.

Men didn't [secrete those hormones], so we don't usually have breast tissue.»

The testes secrete a hormone called testosterone, which stimulates the production of sperm and secondary male sex characteristics, such as the growth of facial and body hair.

It's well known that pancreatic islets of Langerhans contain cells that secrete hormones vital to maintaining glucose homeostasis, including insulin.

To help the kidneys eliminate an acid load, the adrenal glands must secrete the hormone aldosterone.

What if we make our gland secretes those hormones again to add few inches to our body.

The thyroid gland is a butterfly shaped gland, that secretes hormones using the energy fuel of the body and makes the body balance well and work normally.

Another theory is that these endometrial implants secrete the hormone prostaglandin causing spasms in the reproductive organs and impairing their capacity to function.

The adrenal glands secrete the hormones necessary to keep your libido intact.