In what way growth and development is controlled by the endocrine system?
Endocrine control of growth Human growth is a complex process starting at conception and completing in adolescence at the time of growth plate fusion. Growth can be divided into four phases: (1) fetal, where the predominant endocrine factors controlling growth are insulin and the insulin-like growth factors. (2) Infancy, where growth is mainly dependent upon…
Can you live without your endocrine system?
can you live without your endocrine system?, can you live without a pituitary gland
Glands in mammals
The evolution of sweat glands Mammals have two kinds of sweat glands, apocrine and eccrine, which provide for thermal cooling. In this paper we describe the distribution and characteristics of these glands in selected mammals, especially primates, and reject the suggested development of the eccrine gland from the apocrine gland during the Tertiary geological period….
What is the pituitary gland and what does it do?
what is the pituitary gland and what does it do?
Endocrine system cells
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