Tips. 1  If you want to focus on a particular muscle area, you can do so by changing the stride length. 2  For an elliptical with multiple users, use one whose stride length is adjustable to accommodate different heights. 3  Do not rely solely on guidelines.
3. Intercellular chemical signals secreted into the circulatory system; carried to organs they control, where they bind to receptors and produce a response. 4. Intercellular chemical signals, secreted by nerve cells; important in the function of the nervous system.
Hormones: the bodyâs chemical messengers. The human body secretes and circulates some 50 different hormones. A wide variety of these chemical substances are produced by endocrine cells, most of which are in glands. The hormones then enter the blood system to circulate throughout the body and activate target cells.ome of these substances then act on the other endocrine glands. Unlike substances produced by the exocrine glands, which flow through ducts, the hormones are released directly into the space that surrounds them by secreting cells.