Interactive Endocrine System

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Benjamin Cummings Interactive Endocrine System enriches the teaching environment by providing audio/visual understanding of complex topics. For use as both a presentation and teaching tool in the classroom, as well as a study tool for students, this CD-ROM features full-color animations, sound, interactive quizzes, games, and clinical scenarios that thoroughly demonstrate difficult physiology concepts and help bridge the gap between simply memorizing a concept and truly understanding it.

Includes:

Endocrine System Review. Identifies the major endocrine glands and tissues, the hormones they produce, their target tissues, and a simple function for each hormone.

Biochemistry, Secretion, and Transport of Hormones. Covers the chemical classes and solubility properties of hormones, how hormones are synthesized, and the stimuli that control hormone secretion.

The Actions of Hormones on Target Cells. Reviews hormone receptors, second messenger systems and transcription factors, insulin (including a discussion of diabetes mellitus), and how hormones induce changes in cellular metabolism.

The Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis. An overview of the anatomy of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, a review of its endocrine and neural control, a study of the hypophyseal portal system, and a review of thyroid hormone (including the causes and consequences of hypo- and hypersecretion of TH and a discussion of Graves' disease).

Response to Stress. A discussion of stress in terms of endocrine function, the nervous system's role in responses to stress, and a review of epinephrine and cortisol (including a discussion of Cushing's disease and Addison's disease).

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