Our school education has provided us with an understanding of the role of hormones in human physiology, with the respective endocrine glands that secrete hormones being described by their size and ...

Your salivary glands produce saliva and empty it into your mouth through slots called ducts. When these ducts become blocked, they can't produce enough saliva to moisten your food for proper eating.

The adrenal glands are two small glands located on top of the kidneys. They produce hormones that help regulate heart rate, blood pressure, the immune system, physical stress response, and other ...

Lymph nodes are small glands that filter lymph, the clear fluid that circulates through the lymphatic system. During an infection, they accumulate bacteria or dead or diseased cells and may swell.

Nutritional and hormonal factors are closely related to the regulation of metabolism (4) and nutritional alterations have been shown to affect the functioning of the endocrine glands, possibly leading ...