Talk:Human Physiology/The endocrine system

HELP: As you can see I have made a mess!! I tryed to put the section on Adrenal Glands together a littel bit better and when I went to save the page I relized all I had done was make a mess. I still have all the infromation I just cant get these box's to go away if anyone could help me please!!!!

jan semester
Hi I was wondering how everyone feels about this chapter and what we should work on the most.--Danseyffert 05:22, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

What are your thoughts for organization?
Are you going to organize this chapter on a gland-by-gland basis? Or do you have some other ideas? I imagine you will have a pretty big section on the pituitary gland as the "master gland," since it influences so many of our other endocrine glands.

I am looking forward to seeing this take shape! Provophys 19:28, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

plagiarism
can we just use some of your notes from the handouts without citing? I am getting really nervous about plagiarism especially with your name right on top.


 * You can use material from the class notes freely. The only concern about plagiarism with that is that the notes are based on the book, and the book is copyrighted. The notes do NOT quote directly from the book, so I think they are okay. . . but the general organization is the same as the book. Keep in mind that there is nothing about physiology that is not PUBLIC knowledge. No textbook has a copyright on the knowledge. Essentially they have a copyright on the organization of the words on the page (and the images). Remember that you can borrow from Wikipedia freely, since that is free and open (no copyrights at all), just like Wikibooks is. (I guess there is the risk that someone who wrote a Wikipedia article was plagiarizing, . . . hopefully not! I think that as we move through the entire process of writing this book that we will change things more and more to be our own work and not copy/paste.

Tables A table may be an easy way to sum up various glands and the hormones they produce; Hypothalamus, Pituitary and other glands. I did not see anything like that on wikipedia commons so you may have to create one of your own. I was working on one for my chapter and here is how I made it. I created a book in Excel and then copied the table to my clipboard. Then I pasted it into a photo editing program and saved it as a .jpg file that I uploaded onto wikipedia commons. It sounds like a lot of work but is really not that bad. If you need help I am more than willing to help you. Here is an example for you.

I was doing research on puberty and found out that the release of GnRH from the hypothalamus is caused by brain functions that are not yet understood. While the gonads do provide a negative feedback function it may be worth noting that it is not fully understood what turns GnRH on during puberty.

Adrenal Glands In this section you correctly state that estrogen and progesterone are produced in the adrenal glands. You may want to modify your statement though because the majority of the hormones produced are androgens, and only small amounts of estrogen and progesterone are produced in the adrenal glands. I did see that you talked about what estrogen and progesterone do in your female sex organ section. Feel free to link to our page (Chapt 18) if you want to use some of our information.

The significance of iodine It might help if you expand on the goiter portion of this section and mention that iodine is needed to produces thyroxine T3, which acts as negative feedback on the hypothalamus. Without iodine there is no negative feedback, and the hypothalamus secretes excessive TRH causing the anterior pituitary to secrete TSH which in turn causes the thyroid to grow causing a goiter. OK, that sentence needs work but I hope the idea is somewhat clear. It would also be cool to have a picture of a goiter, although I was not able to find one at Wikipedia commons. (Maybe try Merlot?)

Images
I noticed that this section is a little bit sparce on images, so i took the liberty of finding a few for you:















If you need any help with these, or any other images, let me know. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 23:24, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Human Physiology/The_endocrine_system
The section on The pancreas contains lots of duplicate text and ideas. I removed some obvious duplicates, and reformatted some of it so it doesnt look like a big "wall of text". I could remove more of the duplicate text, but that would involve a massive rewrite of the section, and I think you guys would prefer to have control of the content on this page. Specifically, points about alpha cells producing insulin, while beta cells produce glycogen are mentioned several times, the fact that the pancreas is both exocrine and endocrine is mentioned several times, and the fact that insulin and glycogen counteract each other is mentioned 3 or 4 times. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 23:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

gluconeogenesis
Nov 12 2006 The section on the adrenal gland states that cortisol enhances conversion of fat and protein into glucose. I believe that only protein (actually, certain amino acids from protein) can be made into glucose. This little detail is one of the banes of modern existence - anything can be (and frequently is) made into fat, but fat cannot be made back into glucose. And, we have to have glucose for the brain under most conditions. So if you try to lose weight by starving yourself, your body will chew up your muscles and feed them to your brain, instead of just using up the fat you are trying to get rid of.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR
The English grammar used in this "endocrine system" is very poor if not horrible, like in all of the written systems

Hello....Is there an editor or corrector in the room?

nerves and endocrine glands
How our nervous system and endocrine system coordinate?? Kumarsanusaloi (discuss • contribs) 20:05, 3 February 2016 (UTC)