Hormones

2 notes tagged Hormones.

• Science & Technology

  Chemical Coordination and Integration: The Endocrine System

  The posterior pituitary doesn't actually make the two hormones it releases, it just stores and ships what the hypothalamus next door already produced.

• Science & Technology

  Human Reproduction: The Menstrual Cycle

  A rising hormone triggers a burst of a second hormone that then triggers the exact event named after it: the luteinising hormone surge is what actually makes ovulation happen.