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Put your name here: Cody Vegliante

You and your group will be responsible for putting together a defensive presentation of an endocrine gland. You and your group will be giving this presentation during class. Your presentation must include: · A picture(s) of the gland showing its shape and location in the human body. **Pituitary gland is called the master gland.** [] · The hormone(s) produced by your endocrine gland.
 * Task:**


 * **Prolactin**
 * **- Prolactin stimulates milk production from the breasts after childbirth to enable nursing. It also affects sex hormone levels from ovaries in women and from testes in men.**


 * **Growth hormone (GH) - GH stimulates growth in childhood and is important for maintaining a healthy body composition and well-being in adults. In adults it is important for maintaining muscle mass as well as bone mass. It also affects fat distribution in the body.**


 * **Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) - ACTH stimulates the production of cortisol by the adrenal glands. Cortisol, a so-called "stress hormone" is vital to our survival. It helps to maintain blood pressure and blood glucose levels.**


 * **Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) - TSH stimulates the thyroid gland, which regulates the body's metabolism, energy, growth, and nervous system activity. This hormone is also vital to our survival.**


 * **Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) - ADH, also called vasopressin, regulates water balance. If this hormone is not released properly, it can lead to too little hormone (called diabetes insipidus), or too much hormone (called syndrome of inappropriate ADH). Both of these conditions affect the kidneys. Diabetes insipidus is different from the more well-known diabetes mellitus (including type 1 and type 2 diabetes), which affects the levels of glucose in our bodies.**


 * **Luteinizing hormone (LH) - LH regulates testosterone in men and estrogen in women.**


 * **Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)- stimulates testes and ovaries**


 * **- FSH promotes sperm production in men and stimulates the ovaries to enable ovulation in women. Luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone work together to cause normal function of the ovaries and testes. []**

· The stimulus that tells your gland to produce hormones. **If the Axeses (factories) in the gland get excited they produce extra hormones will make extra cortisol which will cause stress on the body.** [|**http://www.neurosurgery.pitt.edu/minc/skullbase/pituitary/index.html**] [|www.elsevierimages.com/ image/28208.htm] · The control mechanism that tells your gland to stop producing hormones. · The function(s) of the hormone(s) produced by your gland. What are the target organs/cells and how does the message carried by the hormone help maintain homeostasis. **This is probably the most important part of your presentation.**
 * When the other glands start producing their own hormones, the pituitary gland stops producing those hormones.**

Treatment
Treatment for pituitary tumors depends on the [|tumor type] and size, its proximity to the eye nerves, and the patient's age and overall health. Most pituitary tumors are noncancerous. Nonfunctioning pituitary tumors do not produce hormones; functioning pituitary tumors cause overproduction of hormones. Observation, surgery and medications are the main treatments for pituitary tumors. Mayo surgeons have pioneered an endoscopic through-the-nose surgical technique that is highly successful when the tumor is small. Most small, nonfunctioning tumors are carefully monitored and observed over time and do not require surgical treatment. Read more about [|pituitary tumor treatment].

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