How do your kidneys know what the status is of inside your blood, They know that because they receive signals from the endocrine system and the nervous system.

肾脏何以得知血液组分的状态,它们能够知道这些是因为它们接收到,来自内分泌系统和神经系统的信号

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The nervous system, the endocrine system which we'll start talking about a little bit today is the system that's responsible for sending signals back and forth between tissues of your body.

还有神经系统,和我们今天将要提到的内分泌系统,内分泌系统主要负责,在体内各组织之间传递信号

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Well, the endocrine system is a body organ system that is specialized in producing these kinds of signals that are used - that accumulate in the blood and are used by cells all over the body.

内分泌系统是一种,作用于周身各器官的系统,它专门产生这些有用的信号,这些信号在血液中聚集,全身各处的细胞都可利用

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