Basic Overview Endocrine

Question 1

What hormone stimulates bone and muscle growth?

Answer 1

Growth Hormone with IGF-1

Question 2

What hormone stimulates milk production and secretion?

Answer 2

Prolactin

Question 3

What hormone stimulates milk secretion during lactation?

Answer 3

Oxytocin

Question 4

What hormone stimulates female secondary characteristics?

Answer 4

Estrogen

Question 5

What hormone stimulates metabolic activity?

Answer 5

Thyroid Hormone

Question 6

What hormone increases blood glucose levels and decreases protein synthesis?

Answer 6

Cortisol

Question 7

What hormone is responsible for male secondary sex traits?

Answer 7

Testosterone (DHT)

Question 8

What hormone prepares endometrium for implantation and maintains pregnancy?

Answer 8

Progesterone

Question 9

What hormone stimulates adrenal cortex to synthesize and secrete cortisol?

Answer 9

ACTH

Question 10

What hormone stimulate follicle maturation in males and females?

Answer 10

FSH

Question 11

What hormone increases plasma calcium and increases bone resorption?

Answer 11

Parathyroid hormone

Question 12

What hormone decreases plasma calcium and increases bone formation?

Answer 12

Calcitonin

Question 13

What hormone stimulates ovulation in females and testosterone synthesis in males?

Answer 13

LH

Question 14

What hormone stimulates thyroid to produce TH and uptake iodine?

Answer 14

TSH

Question 15

Where is GH secreted?

Answer 15

Ant. Pituitary (B-FLAT PiG)

Question 16

Where TH secreted?

Answer 16

Thyroid

Question 17

Where is cortisol secreted?

Answer 17

Adrenal Cortex (Zona Fasciculata)

Question 18

Where is progesterone secreted?

Answer 18

Ovary and placenta

Question 19

Where is prolactin secreted?

Answer 19

Ant Pituitary (B-FLAT PiG)

Question 20

Where is oxytocin secreted?

Answer 20

Paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus

Question 21

Where is atrial natriuretic hormone (ANH) secreted?

Answer 21

Heart

Question 22

Where is glucagon secreted?

Answer 22

alpha-cells of pancreas

Question 23

Where is testosterone secreted?

Answer 23

Testes, Ovaries and Zona Reticularis of Adrenal cortex

Question 24

Where is FSH secreted?

Answer 24

Ant Pituitary (B-FLAT PiG)

Question 25

Where is ADH secreted?

Answer 25

Supraoptic nucleus of hypothalamus

Question 26

Where is calcitonin secreted?

Answer 26

Parafollicular (C) cells of the thyroid

Question 27

Where is TSH secreted?

Answer 27

Ant Pituitary (B-FLAT PiG)

Question 28

Where is epinephrine and NE secreted?

Answer 28

Chromaffin Cells of the adrenal medulla

Question 29

Where is insulin secreted?

Answer 29

Beta cells of the pancreas

Question 30

Where is estradiol secreted?

Answer 30

Ovaries

Question 31

Where is estriol secreted?

Answer 31

Placenta

Question 32

Where is estrone secreted?

Answer 32

Fat Cells

Question 33

Where is estrogen in men secreted?

Answer 33

Testes

Question 34

Where is PTH secreted?

Answer 34

Parathyroid gland

Question 35

Where is somatostatin secreted?

Answer 35

D cells of the pancreas

Question 36

Where is LH secreted?

Answer 36

Ant Pituitary (B-FLAT PiG)

Question 37

Where is mineralocorticoid (aldosterone) secreted?

Answer 37

Zona Glomerulsa of the Adrenal Cortex

Question 38

Where is ACTH secreted?

Answer 38

Ant. Pituitary (B-FLAT PiG)

Question 39

Hormones that signal through cAMP?

Answer 39

"FLAT ChAMP + Calcitonin + GHRH + Glucagon" ---- FSH, LH, ACTH, TSH, CRH, hCG, ADH, MSH, PTH, Calcitonin, GHRH, Glucagon

Question 40

Hormones that signal through IP3?

Answer 40

"GGGOAAT H" Gastrin, GnRH, GHRH, Oxytocin, ADH (V1), Angiotension II, TRH, Histamine (H1)

Question 41

What are the hormones that signal through the steroid receptors?

Answer 41

VETTT CAP --- Vitamin D, Estrogen, Testosterone, T3/T4, Cortisol, Aldosterone, Progesterone

Question 42

What hormones signal through the intrinsic tyrosine kinase?

Answer 42

"Think growth factors" -- Insulin, IGF-1, FGF, PDGF, EGF

Question 43

Hormones that signal through receptor associated tyrosine kinase?

Answer 43

"PIG" Prolactin, Immunomodulators (Cytokines IL-6, IL-8, IL-2) and GH