Give appropriate biological or technical term for thefollowing.
Hormones which regulate the secretion of other endocrine glands.

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Trophic Hormones:
Tropic hormones are hormones that promote the production of certain hormones by other endocrine glands, such as gonadotropic hormones secreted by the anterior pituitary and hormones produced by the gonads.
The term "tropic" refers to altering the activity of a certain organ, such as thyrotropin, adrenocorticotropic, and so on.

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