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Give the biological technical term of the following.

Hormones which stimulate other endocrine glands to produce their specific hormones.


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Tropic hormones:

  1. Tropic hormones are those hormones that can regulate the other endocrine glands to produce and secrete hormones.
  2. The pituitary gland produces different types of tropic hormones like TSH (thyroid-stimulating work on the thyroid gland), GTH (Gonadotropic hormones work on gonads), and ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic hormone on the adrenal cortex).
  3. Secretion of pituitary glands stimulates the other glands to secrete hormones for that reason it is known as master glands.

Final answer:

Hence, hormones which stimulate other endocrine glands to produce their specific hormones are known as tropic hormones.


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