The pituitary, in addition to making the thyroid stimulating hormones, it makes a hormone called ACTH, adrenal corticotrophic hormone, which acts on the adrenal cortex. And the adrenal is that gland exactly that sits on top of the kidney.
Cortisol is nicknamed the stress hormone and is also the negative feedback mechanism that lowers the secretion of ACTH from the pituitary. In the zona reticularis ACTH is needed to start the utilization of cholesterol for steroid hormone synthesis. Withou
Thyroid stimulating hormone, or TSH, is a hormone that controls the release of thyroid hormone. And then our last one here is adrenocorticotropic, which is abbreviated ACTH, and this hormone stimulates the release of cortisol from the adrenal glands. So t
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