The Powerful Gland, Anterior Pituitary Gland

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Have you heard of the pituitary gland?

Actually it is the master gland.

Why why why???

Its responsibility is to make the functions of the other  glands to be worthwhile.

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It is located in the middle of the brain

That stands out like a rain

It is as big as a pea

Like a small fruit in a tree

It consist of three sections

That has its own proportion

It is the the anterior lobe

The intermediate lobe

The posterior lobe

Anterior pituitary is composed of multiple parts:

Pars distalis or the distal part

Pars tuberalis or tubular part

And pars intermedia or intermediate part

Its regulatory function

And greatest mission

Is achieved through the secretion

Of peptide hormones

Which acts on act on target organs

Including the adrenal gland

Liver, bone, thyroid gland

And gonads

It secretes different hormones

Like growth hormone

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Prolactin hormone

And many more kinds of hormones.

Growth hormones helps us

Acquire our desires

Which is to grow and develop

As we become matured of

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As we all know

All babies need to grow

They need milk and milk secretion

Is done by prolactin hormone

Thyroid hormones

Have two kinds of hormones

Also known as the t3 and t4

Which is essential for growth and development

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Gonadotrophin hormone

Or known as glycoprotein hormone

is responsible for sexual growth

Of people and not of goat

How poweful you are

Oh pituitary gland

How tall can you stand

On a high paved land