hormone functions 3/22/2024

Increases metabolism and targets nearly every cell in the body

Regulates sleep cycles

Controls calcium balance in the blood and targets bone

Regulates Na+ and K+

Helps resist stressors by regulating glucose

Play a role in sexual development and sex drive

Increases glucose in the blood and targets the liver

Decreases glucose in the blood and targets the liver and tissue cells

Promotes maturation of female reproductive organs, breast development, and cyclic changes in the uterus

Promotes maturation of male reproductive organs, appearance of secondary sex characteristics, and normal sperm development

Targets muscle, bone, and other tissues to grow

Stimulates the thyroid gland to release thyroid hormone

Targets the adrenal cortex to release hormones

Triggers ovulation, hormone production by ovaries, and testosterone production in testes

Promotes lactation in the breast

Stimulates ovarian follicle in ovaries and testes to develop sperm

Stimulates uterine contraction in labor and initiates milk ejection in the breast

Stimulates kidneys to reabsorb water