Biology › Section O · Hormones, bones, and muscles › Topic O.2
Hormonal regulation of body processes
Water, salt, sugar, calcium, growth, reproduction and stress: hormones keep each of them in balance, mostly through negative feedback. Seeing what each hormone does, and what happens when there is too much or too little, turns a long list into a few clear patterns.
In this topic
- Water balance: ADH
- Salt and blood pressure: aldosterone
- Worked example: a runner on a hot day
- Reproductive hormones
- Blood glucose: insulin and glucagon
- Worked example: reading glucose test data
- Metabolic rate: thyroid hormones
- Calcium: PTH and calcitonin
- Growth hormone
- The stress response
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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