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Prolactin
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Stimulates and maintains milk production in mothers breasts
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Melatonin
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Regulates body's night/day cycles
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Growth hormone
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Stimulates growth in skeletal and long bones, breaks down fat for energy and spares glucose, maintain blood sugar homeostasis
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Follicle Stimulating Hormone
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Stimulates follicle development in ovaries and produce estrogen and ready eggs for ovulation
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Luteinizing Hormone
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Triggers ovulation of an egg from the female ovary and causes the ruptured follicle to become a corpus luteum
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Thyroid Stimulating hormone
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Influences the growth and activity of the thyroid gland
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Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
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Regulates the endocrine activity of the adrenal gland
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Gonadotopic hormone
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Regulates the gonads
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Oxytocin
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Stimulates powerful contractions during childbirth, during sexual relations and breastfeeding-> "let down reflex"
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Antidiuretic hormone
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Inhibits or prevents urine production; causes the kidneys to reabsorb more water from the forming urine
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Thyroxine
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Controls the rate at which glucose is burned and converted to body heat and chemical energy.
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Calcitonin
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Decreases blood calcium levels by depositing them in the bone
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Parathyroid Hormone
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Triggers osteoclasts to break down bone matrix and release calcium
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Mineralcorticoids
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Reabsorption of sodium and excretion of potassium
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Glocucorticoids
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Increase blood glucose
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