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Chapter 12- Endocrinology Flashcards

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What do endocrine glands do?

How are exocrine glands different

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Secrete chemical substances called hormones directly into the circulatory system.
Exocrine= secretion not direct, has to be transported by ducts.

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Glands and organs that synthesize or secrete hormones are:

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pituitary, hypothalamus, thyroid, parathyroids, adrenals, pancreas, testes, ovaries, pineal, kidneys, gastrointestinal glands, heart, and thymus.

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What is the specificity of hormonal action determined by?

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The presence of specific receptors on or in the target cells.

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Where are the adrenal glands situation what what do they consist of?

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They are situated on the top of the kidneys and consist of the adrenal cortex and the adrenal medulla

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ACTH

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adrenocorticotropic hormone- produced by adrenal pituitary. Stimulates the production of adrenocortical steroids (collective name for more than two dozen hormones, also known as corticosteroids).

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Transcortins

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What corticosteroids bind to in the bloodstream.

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How do corticosteroids exert their mechanism?

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They determine which genes are transcribed in the nuclei of their target cells and at which particular rate. Then they change the nature and given concentration of the enzyme, which will affect cellular metabolism.

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Glucocorticoids

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Cortisol and cortisone– involved in glucose regulation and protein metabolism.

Increase plasma glucose levels and are antagonist to the effect of insulin

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How do glucocorticoids raise blood glucose levels?

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They promote protein breakdown and gluconeogenesis and decrease protein synthesis.

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What do glucocorticoids release?

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Amino acids from skeletal muscles and lipids from adipose tissue.

Also promote peripheral use of lipids and have anti-inflammatory effects

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Mineralocorticoids

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Aldosterone

Regulate plasma levels of sodium and potassium, and the total extracellular water volume.

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What does aldosterone cause?

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Active reabsorption of sodium and passive reabsorption of water in the nephron of the kindey.

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What do the affects of aldosterone result in?

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An increase in blood volume and blood pressure.

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What does excess production of aldosterone cause?

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Excess retention of water- hypertension

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What are mineralocorticoids stimulated by?

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Angiotensin II

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What are mineralocorticoids stimulated by?

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ANT (atrial natriuretic peptide)

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Cortical sex hormones secreted by adrenal cortex

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Secretes small quantities of androgens in both men and women

Effect not great in men

In women, can lead to masculinizing effects

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What does the adrenal medulla produce?

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Epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline).

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Catecholamines

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Amino-acid derived compounds to which both epinephrine and norepinephrine belong to.

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Epinephrine

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Increases conversion of glycogen to glucose in liver and muscle tissue, causing an increase in blood glucose levels.

INCREASE in the basal metabolic rate.

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Both epinephrine and norepinephrine cause:

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Increase the rate and strength of the heartbeat

Constrict and dilate blood vessel in increase supply to:
skeletal muscles
heart
brain

decrease supply to:
kidneys
skin
digestive tract

Also promotes the release of lipids by adipose tissue.

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Effects of epinephrine and norepinephrine are known as the :

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flight or fight response

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Effects of epinephrine and norepinephrine are elicited by:

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the sympathetic nervous stimulation to stress

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True or false: both epinephrine and norepinephrine are neurotransmitters

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True

they are both proteins used by neurons to transmit signals- stimulated by sympathetic preganglionic fibers.

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What is the pituitary and where is it located?

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Small trilobed gland lying at the base of the brain. Hangs below the hypothalamus and is connected by a slender cord known as the infundibulum.

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What are the two main lobes of the pituitary? Are they functionally distinct?

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Anterior and Posterior.

Yes they are functionally distinct.

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Anterior pituitary synthesizes (2):

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Direct hormones
Directly stimulate their target organs
Tropic hormones
Stimulate other endocrine glands to rlease hormones

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What are hormone secretions of the anterior pituitary regulated by?

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Hypothalamic secretions called releasing/ inhibiting hormones or factors.

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What are examples of direct hormones?

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Growth hormone (GH, somatotropin)
Prolactin
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Growth hormone

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Promotes bone and muscle growth. Also promotes protein synthesis and lipid mobilization and catabolism.

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What can GH deficiency in children cause? What does over production cause.

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Dwarfism (growth stunt)

Gigantism

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What can GH over production in adults cause?

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Acromegaly: a disorder characterized by disproportionate overgrowth of bone, localized especially in the skull, jaw, feet and hands.

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Prolactin

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Stimulates milk production and secretion in female mammary glands

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What are examples of tropic hormones?

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Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)
Luteinizing hormone (LH)
Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
Malanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH)
Endorphins
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ACTH

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Adrenocorticotropic hormone. Stimulates the adrenal cortex to synthesize and secrete glucocorticoids and is regulated by corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF)

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TSH

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Thyroid-stimulating hormone. Stimualtes the thyroid gland to synthesize and release thyroid hormones, including thyroxin.

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LH

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Luteinizing hormone.
Women: stimulates ovulation and formation of corpus luteum.
Regulates progesterone secretion.

Men: Stimulates interstitial cells of the testes to synthesize testosterone.

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FSH

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Follicle stimulating hormone.
Women: causes maturation of ovarian follicles that begin secreting estrogen

Men: FSH stimulates maturation of the seminiferous tubules and sperm production.

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MSH

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Melanocyte-stimulating hormone. Secreted by the intermediate lobe of the pituitary. Function unclear in humans, in frogs, causes darkening of skin.

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Endorphins

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Neurotransmitters that have pain-relieving properties

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Posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis)

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Does not synthesize hormones- stores and releases peptide hormones oxytocin and ADH

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Oxytocin and ADH are stimulated and produced by?

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Stimulated by action potentials descending from the hypothalamus and produced by the neurosecretory cells of the hypothalamus

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Oxytocin

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Secreted during childbirth- increases muscle contraction

-Also induced by suckling, stimulates milk secretion

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ADH

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Antidiuretic hormone (vasopressin)
Increases permeability of nephron's collecting duct to water

promotes water reabsorption, increases BO.

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When is ADH secreted?

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When plasma osmolarity increases as sensed by osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus or when blood volume decreases, as sensed by baroreceptors in the circulatory system.

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What is hypothalamus and where is it located?

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Part of the forebrain and is located directly above the pituitary gland.

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What does the hypothalamus receive?

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Neural transmissions from other parts of the brain and from peripheral nerves that trigger specific responses from its neurosecretory cells.

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Neurosecretory cells.

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regulate pituitary gland secretions via negative feedback mechanisms and through the actions of inhibiting and releasing hormones.

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Hypothalamic-releasing hormones

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Stimulate or inhibit the secretions of the anterior pituitary.

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GnRH

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Stimulates the anterior pituitary to secrete FSH or LH

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Where are releasing hormones secreted into?

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The hypothalamic-hypophyseal portal system

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hypothalamic-hypophyseal portal system

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Circulatory pathway, blood from capillary bed in the hypothalamus flows through a portal vein and into the anterior pituitary, where it diverges into a 2nd capillary network

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When plasma levels of adrenal cortical hormones drop, hypothalamic cells release?

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ACTH-releasing factor via negative feedback into the portal vein. When the plasma concentration of corticosteroids exceeds the normal plasma level, the steroids themselves exert an inhibitory effect on the hypothalamus

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Neurosecretory cells in the hypothalamus synthesize both _____ and ____ and transport them via their _____ into the ______ _______ for ______ and ______

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oxytocin and ADH and transport them via their axons into the posterior pituitary for storage and secretion

55
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Thyroid hormones affect the function of:

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nearly every organ system in the body

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In children, thyroid hormones are important for:

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growth and development

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In adults, thyroid hormones are important for:

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maintenance of metabolic stablility

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What the the thyroid hormones and where are they formed?

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Thyroxine (T4) and Triiodothyronine (T3). Are formed on the glycoprotein thyroglobulin, which is synthesized in the thyroid cell.

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How are active thyroid hormones formed?

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Because of the specific tertiary structure of thyroglobulin, iodinated tyrosine residues present in the thyroglobulin are able to bind together.

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True or false: T3 is five times more potent than T4

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TRUE

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What are T4 and T3 transported in the blood by?

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The proteins TBG, TBPA, and albumin

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What kind of hormone is able to enter a cell and cause a cellular response?

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Only hormones that are not bound to proteins

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All of the T4 in the body is formed and secreted by the:

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Thyroid gland

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x% of T3 is produced by the thyroid gland

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20%

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The majority of T3 is produced by

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The conversion of T4 to T3 by the enzyme 5’-monodeiodase, found primarily in the peripheral tissues.

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What are T4 and T3 derives from?

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The iodination of the amino acid tyrosine.

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Hypothyroidism

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Thyroid hormones are undersecreted or not secreted at all.

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Symptoms of hypothyroidism:

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Slowed heart rate and respiratory rate
fatigue
cold intolerance
weight gain

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Cretinism

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Hypothyroidism in newborn infants- characterized by mental retardation and short stature

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Hyperthyroidism

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Thyroid is overstimulated, resulting in the oversecretion of thyriod hormones

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Symptoms of hyperthyroidism

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Increased metabolic rate
feelings of excessive warmth
profuse sweating
palpitations
weight loss
protruding eyes
72
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Goiters are a result of

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Both hypo and hyperthyroidism

73
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Calcitonin

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decreases plasma Ca2+ by inhibiting the release of Ca2+ from bone.

74
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Calcitonin secretion is regulated by:

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Plasma Ca2+ levels

75
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Calcitonin is antagonistic to the

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parathyroid hormone

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Pancrease

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is both an exocine and endocrine organ.

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Exocrine function of the pancreas is preformed by

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The cells that secrete digestive enzyme into the small intestine via a serives of ducts

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The endocrine function of the pancreas is performed by:

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small glandular structures called the islets of Langerhans, which are compused of alpha and beta cells.

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Alpha cells

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Produce and secrete glucagon

80
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Beta cells

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Produce and secrete insulin

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Glucagon

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Stimulates fat and protein degradation, the conversion of glycogen to glucose and gluconeogenesis- all of which serve to increase blood glucose levels.

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Insulin

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Protein hormone secreted in response to a high blood glucose concentration

Stimulates uptake of storage by muscle and adipose cells

storage of glucose as glycogen in muscle and liver cells

83
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Underproduction of insulin and insensitivity to insulin causes

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diabetes mellitus- characterized by hyperglycemia (high blood glucose levels).

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Parathyroid glands

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Four small, pea-shaped structures embedded in the posterior surface of the thyroid.

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What do the parathyroid glands synthesize and secrete?

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PTH (parathyroid hormone) which regulates plasma Ca2+ concentration.

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What does PTH do?

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Raises Ca2+ concentration in the blood by stimulating Ca2+ release from the bone and deceasing Ca2+ excretion in the kidneys.

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Calcium in bone is bonded to:

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Phosphate and breakdown of bone releases phosphate as well as calcium. Parathyroid hormone compensates for this by stimulating excretion of phosphate by the kidneys

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Renin

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Produced when blood volume falls- an enzyme that converts the plasma protein angiotensin to angiotensin I

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Angiotensin I is converted to _____, which

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angiotensin II, which stimulates the adrenal cortex to secrete aldosterone

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What does aldosterone do?

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Helps to restore blood volume by increasing sodium reabsorption at the kidney, leading to the increase in water. This removes initial stimulus for renin prodution

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Erythropoietin (EPO)

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Produced by the kidneys, a glycoprotein that stimulates RBC production. Causes:
Stimulation of stem cells to differentiate into rubriblasts (least mature erythrocyte)
Increased rate of mitosis
Increased release of reticulocytes from the bone marrow
Increased hemoglobin formation

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Ingested food stimulates the stomach to release the hormone:

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Gastrin

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Gastrin

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Carried to the gastric glands and stimulates the glands to secrete HCl in response to food in the stomach.

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Secretion of pancreatic juice or the exocrine secretion of the pancreas is also under:

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hormonal control, the hormone secretin is released by the small intestine when acidic food material enters from the stomach

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Chyme

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Partially digested food coming from the stomach. Acidic, secretin stimulates the secretion of an alkaline bicarbonate solution from the pancreas that neutralizes chyme.

96
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Cholecystokinin

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Hormone released from the small intestine in response to the presence of fats and causes the contraction of gall bladder and release of bile into the small intestine.

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Bile in involved in the:

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Emulsification and digestion of fats

98
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Pineal gland

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A tiny structure at the base of the brain that secretes melatonin

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Role of melatonin

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Unclear in human, believed to play a role in the circadian rhythms

100
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Melatonin secretion is regulation by

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light and dark cycles in the environment.

101
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In primitive vertebrates, melatonin:

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Lightens skin by concentrating pigment granules in melanophores.

Antagonist to MSH

102
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Peptide hormones range from:

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Simple short peptides such as ADH to complex polypeptides, such as insulin

103
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Peptide hormones act as:

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first messengers

104
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Peptide hormones bind to

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specific receptors on the surface of their target cells

triggers a series of enzymatic reactions within each cell- first: conversion of ATP to cyclic AMP

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Cyclic AMP

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acts as a second messenger to relay messages from the extracellular peptide hormone to the cytoplasmic enzymes and initiating a series of successive reactions in the cell (cascade effect)

106
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What is cAMP activity inactivated by?

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Cytoplasmic enzyme phosphodiesterase

107
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Steroid hormones belong to a class of:

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Steroid hormones belong to a class of lipid-derived molecules with a characteristic ring structure

108
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What are steroids produced by?

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Testes, ovaries, placenta, and adrenal cortex

109
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Steroid hormones do what to activates gene expression?

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Because they are lipid soluble, they cross the phospholipid bilayer and enter their target cells directly in order to bind to specific receptor proteins in the cytoplasm– which enters nucleus and binds to chromatin

110
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Plant hormones are primarily involved in

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regulation of growth

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What are plant hormones produced by?

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Growing parts of the plant, such as the meristematic tissues in the apical region of shoots and roots. Also produced by leaves and developing seeds

112
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Auxins

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Important class of plant hormones associated with several types of growth patterns.

113
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What are auxins responsible for?

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Phototropism: tendency of shoots of plants to bend towards the sun.

114
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What happens when light strikes the tip of a plant from one side?

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The auxin supply on that side is reduced- hence that side grows slower.

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Indole-acetic acid

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Example of auxin associated with phototropism

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Geotropism

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Growth of portions of plants toward or away from gravity.

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Negative geotropism

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Cause shoots to grow upward, away from acceleration of gravity.

118
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How does negative geotropism affect auxin concentration?

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Gravity increases the concentration of auxin in lower side of horizontally placed plant. Auxin on upper side decreases. Lower side elongates faster than cells on upper side, which causes plants to grow vertically.

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Positive geotropism

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Causes roots to grow toward the pull of gravity.

120
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How does positive geotropism affect auxin distribution?

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Horizontally placed roots have the same auxin distribution as horizontally placed stems- but the effect on the root cells in opposite.

Effect on roots cells is opposite. Cells exposed to higher concentration of auxin are inhibited from growing, whereas cells on upper side continue to grow. This causes roots to turn downward.

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Auxins produced in the terminal bud of a plant’s growing tip:

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move downward in the shoot and inhibit development of lateral buds

122
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Auxins initiate the formation of _____ _____, while they inhibit ______ _______

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lateral roots, root elongation

123
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Gibberllins

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Stimulate rapid stem elongation, particularly in plants that do not normally grow tall

Inhibit formation of new roots

stimulate production of new phloem cells by the cambium

terminate the dormancy of seeds and buds

124
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How to gibberellins affect some biennial plants?

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They induce them to flower during their first year of growth.

125
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Kinins

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Promote cell division

126
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Kinetic

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Important type of cytokinin

127
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The ratio of kinetin to auxin is important for:

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Determining the timing of the differentiation of new cells

128
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The action of kinetic is ______ when auxin is present.

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enhanced

129
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Ethylene

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Stimulates fruit ripening. Also induces senescence or aging.

130
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Inhibitors

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Block cell division.

Important in maintaining dormancy in the lateral buds and seeds of plants during autumn and winter

131
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Abscisic adic

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Important inhibitor

132
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Antizuins

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Regulate activity of auxins

133
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Indoleacetic acid oxidase

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Regulates the concentration of indoleacetic acid. An increase in the acid increases the about of oxidase produced.

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