Endocrine system maintains homeostasis: Hormones help in maintaining the internal environment, i.e. homeostasis of the body because their secretions are regulated in a coordinated manner so that the right hormone is secreted at the right time in the right quantity. These secretions of hormones are often under feed-back control by other factors or hormones. Whenever an endocrine gland secretes a hormone in excess, the rise in the blood level of this hormone inhibits the further secretion of stimulating hormone from the pituitary gland. This causes a decline in the secretion of that particular endocrine gland until the blood level of … Continue reading Explain with examples how endocrine system maintains homeostasis and what is feedback mechanism?