Endocrine

Question 1

An intermediary molecule activated by GH to stimulate tissue growth

Answer 1

Somatomedin

Question 2

Hormone from the anterior pituitary that stimulates production and secretion of cortisol

Answer 2

ACTH

Question 3

From the hypothalamus, stimulates production and secretion of ADH

Answer 3

CRH

Question 4

What is secreted if blood calcium is low?

Answer 4

Parathyroid Hormone

Question 5

What is released if blood calcium levels are high?

Answer 5

Calcitonin

Question 6

What is produced and secreted by beta cells in the pancreas?

Answer 6

Insulin

Question 7

What is secreted by alpha cells in the pancreas?

Answer 7

Glucagon

Question 8

What is the glucose-sparing hormone from the adenohypophysis?

Answer 8

Growth Hormone

Question 9

What is the lipid soluble glucose-sparing hormone?

Answer 9

Cortisol

Question 10

What hormone stimulates milk production?

Answer 10

Prolactin

Question 11

What hormone does the heart produce?

Answer 11

Anti-natriuretic Peptide

Question 12

What hormones stimulates milk letdown via a positive feedback loop?

Answer 12

Oxytocin

Question 13

What is the collective name for hormones that stimulate the ovaries and testes to produce gametes?

Answer 13

Gonadotropins

Question 14

What hormone stimulates kidney retention if sodium and water in the bloodstream?

Answer 14

ADH aka vasopressin

Question 15

What is the only hormone that reduces blood sugar?

Answer 15

Insulin

Question 16

What does the neurohypophysis produce as part of the stress response?

Answer 16

Nothing. But it secretes ADH

Question 17

What causes the secretion of FSH and LH?

Answer 17

GnRH

Question 18

What causes production and secretion of GH?

Answer 18

GHRH

Question 19

There is a lack of what kind of hormone in diabetes mellitus I?

Answer 19

Insulin

Question 20

What hormone is permissive for alpha constriction and why?

Answer 20

Adrenalines, because they increase the number of adnergenic receptors

Question 21

What lipid-soluble hormone is permissive for alpha constriction?

Answer 21

Cortisol

Question 22

What hormone stimulates osteoclasts?

Answer 22

Parathyroid hormone

Question 23

In Graves’ disease the antibodies produced resemble (and are competitive with) what hormone?

Answer 23

Thyroid Stimulating Hormone

Question 24

Acromelagy, Pituitary Dwarfism, and Gigantism are all caused by irregularities of what hormone?

Answer 24

Growth Hormone

Question 25

What hormone suppresses early puberty?

Answer 25

GnRH

Question 26

What hormone causes blood vessels to constrict and water retention in the kidneys?

Answer 26

ADH

Question 27

What hormone type is most likely to stimulate protein synthesis?

Answer 27

Water soluble

Question 28

What type of hormone can enter the nucleus of a cell?

Answer 28

Lipid soluble

Question 29

What hormones are made in the hypothalamus? From where are they secreted?

Answer 29

Oxytocin and ADH, from the posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis)

Question 30

What hormones are secretes by the anterior pituitary gland (adenohypophysis)

Answer 30

TSH, ACTH, GH, FSH, LH, PRL

Question 31

What hormones are secreted by the adrenal gland?

Answer 31

Cortex: Aldosterone (mineralcorticoids) and Cortisol (glucocorticoids) Medulla: Adrenalines (Epinephrine and Norepinephrine)

Question 32

What hormones are secreted by the thyroid?

Answer 32

T3/T4 aka Thyroxine and Calcitonin

Question 33

What hormone is secreted by the parathyroid, what are its targets and effects?

Answer 33

Parathyroid hormone Target: Bones, kidneys, intestines Effects: Stimulates osteoclasts, enhances reabsorption of Ca2+, stimulates calcitrol synthesis. General effect is to increase blood calcium levels

Question 34

What hormones are secretes by the pancreas?

Answer 34

Glucagon (alpha cells) Insulin (beta cells)

Question 35

What hormone is secretes by the kidneys? What is its target and effect?

Answer 35

Erythropoietin Targets: Bone marrow Effect: Stimulates production if red blood cells

Question 36

What hormone is stimulated by the heart? What are its targets and effects?

Answer 36

Atrial Natriuretic Hormone Target: Kidneys Effect: Decreases blood pressure by increasing water and Na+ retention

Question 37

What hormone is produced by the thymus? What are its targets and effects?

Answer 37

Thymosin Target: T cells Effect: Matures T cells

Question 38

What are the Neuronal hormones?

Answer 38

Oxytocin, Cortisol, Adrenalines

Question 39

What are the humoral hormones?

Answer 39

ADH, Aldosterone, calcitonin and PTH, Insulin and glucagon, erythropoietin, ANP, Thymosin

Question 40

What are the hormonally controlled hormones?

Answer 40

TSH, ACTH, GH, FSH, LH, PRL, T3/T4, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone