Name the hormone that best matches the description provided.
1. Basal metabolism hormone.
2. Programs T lymphocytes.
3. Most important hormone regulating the amount of calcium circulating in the blood, released when calcium levels fall.
4. Helps to protect the body during long-term stressful situations, such as extended illness and surgery.
5. Short-term stress hormone; aids in the fight-or-flight response; increases blood pressure and heart rate.
6. Necessary if glucose is to be taken up by certain body cells.
7. Regulates the function of other endocrine organs; four tropic hormones (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. Acts antagonistically to insulin; produced by the same endocrine gland.
12. Hypothalamic hormone important in regulating water balance.
13. Regulates the ovarian cycle. (13, 14)
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15. Directly regulates the menstrual or uterine cycle. (15, 16)
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17. Adrenal cortical hormone involved with regulating salt levels of body fluids.