The pituitary gland is very important as it takes messages from the brain (via a gland called the hypothalamus) and uses these messages to produce hormones that affect many parts of the body, including stimulating all the other hormone-producing glands to produce their own hormones.
If a stimulus to a neuron is great enough, ___<u>t</u><u>h</u><u>r</u><u>e</u><u>s</u><u>h</u><u>o</u><u>l</u><u>d</u>_____ is reached and an action potential is generated.
