Medical Questions » Glands Questions » Question No. 416
| Question: | What are giands and what do they do? |
| Answer: | There are many different glands in the human, and they share one common characteristic. They all produce substances essential to life, but none of them has any ducts or tubes to take these substances away from the gland. The chemicals-produced are called hormones, and each of the millions of cells in the gland that produces the hormone, discharges it directly into the microscopic blood capillary that passes beside the cell. In this way the necessary hormones enter the bloodstream and are transported to every other cell in the body. |
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