Simple Cuboidal Epithelium

Create Hormone Precursors

Fluid in center of the cell.

Store hormones T3 and T4

Produce Calcitonin.

Separate cells; significantly different.

Anterior Pituitary

Adenohypophysis

Clustered

Pink in color.

Produces....

Posterior Pituitary

Neurohypophysis

Lighter in color(gray).

Not clustere into groups.

Part of nervous system.

produce digestive secretions.

Small.

Pink.

Large round cluster of cells.

Produce insulin and glucagon

Outer portion.

Produce steroid hormones.

Appear in columns

Purple and Red in color.

Produces epinephrine and norepinephron.

Extension of the Nervous System.

Pinkinsh/ Gray