BIOL 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sphenoid Bone, Calreticulin, Dancemania Speed
13 Mar 2018
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Use of recombinant dna technology to synthesize artificial hgh. Explain why natural human growth hormone is no longer used to treat human growth hormone deficiency. Located at the base of the brain from the hypothalamus. Connected to the hypothalamus by the pituitary stock. Almost entirely covered in bone (by the sphenoid bone) Has a little notch that surrounds and protects the pituitary. One of two communication systems (other being the nervous system) Secretes the human growth hormone: define the term endocrine hormone. Sent to one cell to another by the blood. Signaling molecules produced and secreted from one location in the body and travel to the blood to affect another area of the body. Sends signals out more broadly and longer lasting. Can reach cells throughout the body in the blood stream. The pituitary gland is located at the base of the mammalian brain and synthesizes and secretes a number of important hormones.
