What Are Peptide Hormones?

In this episode we're going to more focus on the relationship between the different components of the endocrine system and how they are regulated. Before we talk about the process of hormone regulation, I want to address the sort of a subtopic here which is pheromones. Having a pheromone is a chemical that is secreted or excreted from the body that triggers a social response like a behavioral cognitive response in members of the same species. So there's a sort of thing you might expect basically, like behavioral regulation of territory, resources, threats or mates. Pheromones are found as I said in many different types of species including many insect species but also some reptiles