- Works alongside the nervous system
- Controls vitas functions in the body through hormones
- Slower than NS
- Network of glands across the body that secrete chemical messages- hormones
- Instead of using nerves (sensory and motor neurones) it uses blood vessels to transmit information
- Glands are organs in the body that produce hormones- the pituitary gland is called the ‘master gland’ as it controls the release of hormones from all the other endocrine glands in the body
- Hormones chemical messengers that are secreted in the bloodstream and affect any cell in the body that has a receptor for that particular hormone
- Hypothalamus- homeostasis, works in parallel with pituitary gland
