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What is the main function of the endocrine system?
What is the main function of the endocrine system?
To regulate mood and metabolism, tissue function, growth and development, and reproductive processes.
How do hormones produced by the endocrine system affect the body?
How do hormones produced by the endocrine system affect the body?
They affect many parts of the body by traveling through the blood and controlling the actions of cells, tissues, and organs.
What are the two general groups into which hormones fall?
What are the two general groups into which hormones fall?
Steroid hormones and nonsteroid hormones.
How do steroid and nonsteroid hormones affect cells?
How do steroid and nonsteroid hormones affect cells?
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What are cells called that have receptors for a particular hormone?
What are cells called that have receptors for a particular hormone?
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