Endo: Diversity Of Endocrine Hormones Flashcards
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Hormones are chemical non-nutrient, intercellular messenger that is effective at micromolar concentrations or less (high efficiency)
Broader definition
Hormones are chemical substances produced by specialized tissues and secreted into blood, in which they are carried to target organs and triggers specific biologic functions. And by whom?
Classical definition. Starling and Bayliss
Communicates to adjacent tissue by local chemical release (neurotransmitter)
Nervous system
Communicates to distant tissues through blood-carried chemicals.
Endocrine system
Acts through chemical messengers(hormones) carried in the circulation by secretion into blood and extracellular fluid.
Endocrine system
Cell must bear a _______ for the secreted hormones to respond.
Receptor
Hormones can be classified according to
Chemical composition, Solubility properties, Location of receptors & Nature of signal used to mediate hormonal action
These are lipophilic, has transport proteins, long plasma half life (hours to days), mediated intracellularly and contains receptor hormone complex
Calcitriol, Retinoids, Iodothyronines & Steroids “CRIS”
These are hydrophobic, no transport proteins, short plasma half life (minutes), mediated by plasma membrane and receptors are cAMP, cGMP, Ca2+, metabolites of complex phosphomositols & kinase cascades
Polypeptides, Proteins, Glycoproteins & Catecholamines “PaPa GC”
Hormone synthesize in thyroid
Triiodothyronine
Hormones synthesized in Adrenal
Glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids
Hormones synthesized in the Pituitary
FSH, LH, ACTH, GH, Prolactin & TSH “FLAG PT”
Hormone produced in specialized cells of the Small Intestine
Glucagon-like peptide
Hormone produced in specialized cells of the thyroid
Calcitonin
Hormone produced in specialized cells of the kidney
Angiotensin
Synthesis of some hormones requires the ___________ of more than one organ
Parenchymal cells
These organs are required for the production of 1,25(OH)2-D3 or calcitriol
Skin, liver & kidney
Hormones usually affects only _______. Responds to a hormone because it bears receptors.
Target cells
Hormones can change its target cells by. (Transmit the information gained from binding to the hormone into a cellular response)
Activation of enzymes & Modulation of gene expression “A.M”
Hormone is distributed in blood and binds to distant target cells
Endocrine
Hormone acts locally by diffusing from its source to target cells in the neighborhood
Paracrine
Hormone acts on the same cell that produced it
Autocrine
Secreted by cells in a locl area and influences the activity of the same cell from which it was secreted. Give an example.
Autocrine. Prostaglandin.
Produced by a wide variety of tissues and secreted into tissue spaces; has a localized effect on adjacent cells. Give an example.
Paracrine. Prostaglandin & Histamine.