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Hormones in the
Body
Up to the beginning of the twentieth
century,the nervous
system was thought
to control all communication within the
body and the resulting integration of
ists had
determined that nerves
ran,essentially,on electrical
impulses
were thought to be the engine for
thought,emotion,movement,and internal
processes such as
r,experiments by
William Bayliss and Ernest
Starling on
the chemical secretin,which is produced in the
small intestine when food enters the
stomach,eventually
challenged that the
small intestine,secretin
travels
through the bloodstream to the ,it
stimulates the release of digestive
this
fashion,the intestinal cells that
produce secretin ultimately
regulate
the production of different chemicals in a
different
organ,the
pancreas.
Such a coordination of processes had
been thought to
require control by the
nervous system;Bayliss and Starling
showed that it could occur through
chemicals
discovery spurred Starling
to coin the term hormone to refer
to
secretin,taking it from the Greek word
hormon,meaning“to
excite”or“to set in
motion.”A hormone is a chemical
produced by one tissue to make things
happen elsewhere.
As more hormones were
discovered,they were
categorized,primarily according to the
process by which they
operated on the
glands(which make up the endocrine
system)secrete hormones directly into
the
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glands
include the thyroid and the exocrine
system consists of organs and glands
that produce substances
that are used
outside the bloodstream,primarily for
pancreas is one such organ,although it secretes
some chemicals into the blood and thus
is also part of the
endocrine
system.
Much has been learned about hormones
since their
play such key roles in
regulating bodily
processes or behavior
that their absence would cause
immediate most abundant hormones have
effects that
are less obviously urgent
but can be more far-reaching and
difficult to
track
:
They modify moods and
affect human
behavior,even some
behavior we normally think of as
al
systems are very minute
amounts of the
right chemicals can suppress appetite,calm
aggression,and change the attitude of a
parent toward a
n hormones accelerate
the development of the
body,regulating
growth and form;others may even define an
individual’s personality quantities
and
proportions of hormones produced
change with age,so
scientists have
given a great deal of study to shifts in the
endocrine system over time in the hopes
of alleviating
ailments associated with
aging.
In fact,some hormone therapies are
already very common.A
combination of
estrogen and progesterone has been prescribed
for decades to women who want to reduce
mood swings,sudden
changes in body
temperature,and other discomforts caused by
lower natural levels of those hormones
as they enter middle
as hormone
replacement therapy(HRT),the treatment
was also believed to prevent weakening
of the least
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one study has linked HRT with a
heightened risk of heart
disease and
certain types of may also increase the
likelihood that blood
clots
—
dangerous because they
could
travel through the bloodstream
and block major blood
vessels
—
will
proponents of HRT have tempered their
enthusiasm in the face of this new
evidence,recommending it
only to
patients whose symptoms interfere with their
abilities to live normal
lives.
Human growth hormone may also be given
to patients who
are secreting
abnormally low amounts on their e of
the complicated effects growth hormone
has on the body,such
treatments are
generally restricted to children who would be
pathologically small in stature without
hormone
affects not just physical size
but also the digestion of food
and the
aging chers and family physicians tend
to agree that it is foolhardy to
dispense it in cases in
which the risks
are not clearly outweighed by the
benefits.
word engine in the passage is closest
in meaning
to
(A)desire
(B)origin
(C)science
(D)chemical
word it in the passage
refers to
(A)secretin
(B)small
intestine
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(C)bloodstream
(D)pancreas
word spurred
in the passage is closest in meaning
to
(A)remembered
(B)surprised
(C)invented
(D)motivated
be considered
a hormone,a chemical produced in the
body must
(A)be part of the digestive
process
(B)influence the operations of the
nervous system
(C)affect processes in a different part
of the body
(D)regulate attitudes and
behavior
glands and organs mentioned in
paragraph 3 are
categorized according
to
(A)whether scientists understand their
function
(B)how frequently they release hormones
into the body
(C)whether the hormones they secrete
influence the aging
process
(D)whether
they secrete chemicals into the blood
Paragraph 3 is
marked with an arrow[→]
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