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Where do you find the hypothalamus and pituitary?

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Brain

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What endocrine gland do you find at the neck?

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Thyroid and parathyroid

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What endocrine glands can be found at adrenal glands?

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Adrenal context and adrenal medulla

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Are the two adrenal glands connected in their work or do they act separately?

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Work separately

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Where do you find the kidney?

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At the ribcage

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What is at the upper abdomen according to the endocrine glands?

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Stomach/pancreatic islets

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What is at the lower abdomen according to the endocrine glands?

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Ovaries and testes

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What is at the small intestines according to the endocrine glands?

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Duodenum and jejunum

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what is the function of hypothalamus?

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  • control pituitary hormone release

- Interface between in and outside of body and endocrine response

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What are the hormones that is linked to the hypothalamus?

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  • Corticotrophin releasing hormone
  • Thyrotropin releasing hormone
  • Somatostatin
  • GnRH
  • Growth releasing hormone
  • Prolactin releasing hormone
  • Prolactin inhibiting hormone
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What is the function of the anterior pituitary?

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  • Controls activity of other endocrine glands
  • Ovulation and pregnancy
  • Sperm production
  • Growth
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What are the hormones linked to the anterior pituitary?

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  • Thyrotropin stimulating hormone
  • Adrenocorticotrophic hormone
  • Luteinising hormone
  • Follicle stimulating hormone
  • Growth hormone
  • Prolactin
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What is the function of the posterior pituitary?

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  • Regulates overall water balance
  • Uterine contraction
  • Ejection of milk
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What are the hormone linked to posterior pituitary?

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Antidiuretic hormone

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What are the four types of transmembrane signalling mechanisms?

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  • Ligand-gated ion channel
  • G-protein coupled receptors
  • Enzyme-linked receptors
  • Intracellular receptor
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What is an example of ligand-gated ion channel?

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Cholinergic nicotinic receptors

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What does a ligand-gated ion channel do?

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Changes in membrane potential/ion conc. in cells

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What is an example of G-protein coupled receptors?

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a and B adreniceptors

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What does a G-protein could receptor do?

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Protein phosphorylation

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What is an example of enzyme-linked receptor?

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Insulin receptors

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What does an enzyme-linked receptor do?

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Protein and receptors phosphoralisation

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What is an example of intracellular receptors?

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Steroid receptors

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What does an intracellular receptor do?

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Protein phosphoralisation and gene expression altered

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What hormones is linked to the thyroid gland?

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Thyroxine and thriiodothyrine (thyroid hormones)

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What type of cell signalling is the hormone thyroid related to?
Intracellular receptor-thyroid-response element
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What hormones is linked to the adrenal medulla?
Adrenaline and noradrenaline
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What is the type of cell signalling linked to the hormones adrenalin and noradrenalin?
Adrenergic receptor (GCPR) and second messenger cAMP
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What hormones is linked to adrenal cortex?
Glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids
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What hormones is linked to the pancreases?
Insulin, glucagon and somatostatin
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What type of cell signalling is linked to the hormones insulin, glucagon and somatostatin?
Reception tyrosine kinase, PI3K pathway
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Where is the thyroid gland located?
Neck, over trache below larynx
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What is the thyroid gland made out of?
Two lobes of endocrine tissue joined together by isthmus
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Where are the hormone secretion cells arranged?
In hollow spheres called follicles
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What are the abbreviations for the thyroid hormones?
``` T4 = Thyroxine T3 = Triidothyromine ```
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What are the thyroid hormones made out of?
Amino acid tyrosine and iodine
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Where does the synthesis of the hormone take place?
thyroid follicles
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Where is the thyroglobulin produced?
ER-golgi complexes
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What is thyroglobulin?
Protein containing tyrosine
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Where are the iodine molecules added to the thyroglobulin?
Inside the colloid region of follicles
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What is the addition of iodine to thyroglobulin catalysed by?
TPO (Thyroperoxidase)
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What is hypothyroidism?
less than normal levels of thyroid hormones
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What can hypothyroidism cause?
- Goitre | - Enlarged glands
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How is hypothyroidism caused?
- Iodine deficiency - Ingestion of goitrogens - Reduced production of T3 and T4
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What is hyperthyroidism?
More than normal levels of thyroid hormones
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What can hyperthyroidism cause?
- Goitre | - Enlarged glands
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How is hyperthyroidism caused?
- Graves' disease which produces antibodies that mimic the effects of TSH - Overproduction of T3 and T4
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What is the function of a thyroid gland?
- Increasing metabolic rate and heat production - Sympathomimetic effect - Effect on cardiovascular system - Effect on growth and nervous system
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What is another name for the adrenal glands?
Suprarenal Glands
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Where are the two adrenal glands located?
One above each kidney and embedded in a capsule of fat
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What are the two functional different regions of the adrenal glands?
- Adrenal cortex | - Adrenal medulla
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What hormones are related to the adrenal cortex?
Steroid hormones (cortisol, aldosterone and androgens)
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What hormones are related to the adrenal medulla?
Catecholamines (adrenaline and noradrenaline)
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How many types of secretion cells do the adrenal medulla have?
2
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How much adrenaline is produced from the adrenal medulla compared to noradrenaline?
75 to 80%
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What is adrenal medulla part of?
Modified part of the sympathetic nervous systme
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What is the adrenal medulla consist of?
Modified postganglionic sympathetic neurones called chromaffin cells
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What are chromaffin cells?
Postganglionic sympathetic neurones
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What do adrenalin and noradrenaline hormones act as?
Neurotransmitters
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What receptors do adrenalin and noradrenalin bind to?
Adrenergic receptors
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What class of cell signalising receptors are adrenergic receptors?
GPCR
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What are the two major classification can adrenergic receptors be put into?
alpha and beta
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What are the subclassifications of adrenergic receptors?
``` a1 = IP3 -Ca^2+ a2 = inhibits cAMP ``` B1/B2 = cAMP
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What are the functions of adrenalin and noradrenaline?
Exert similar effects on many tissues and related to stress response
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What do the type of effects of adrenalin and noradrenaline depend on?
Which adrenergic receptor bound to
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What does the activation of a1 do?
- Excitatory response | - Contraction of blood vessels
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What does the activation of a2 do?
- Inhibitory response | - Decreased smooth muscle contraction of digestive system
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What does the activation of B1 do?
- Excitatory response only in heart cells | - Increase rate of heart contractions
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What does the activation of B2 do?
- Inhibitory response | - Relaxation of smooth muscle cells in arteries and bronchoilies
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What is the function of the pancreas?
Blood glucose levels
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What are the hormones linked to the pancreases?
- Insulin | - Glucagon
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What happens with blood glucose rises?
- B cells increase insulin - a cells decrease glucagon - Therefore decreasing glucose levels
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What is glycogenesis?
Production of glycogen
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Where is glycogen stored?
In muscles and liver
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What is lipogenesis?
Glucose converted into fat
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Where is the converted fat from glucose stored?
In fat muscle
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What does protein synthesis do to excess glucose?
Converts glucose to protein
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What does the insertion of GLUT-4 transports do when stimulated by insulin?
- Glycogenesis - Lipogenesis - Protein synthesis
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What do GLUT-4 transports do?
Facilitated glucose uptake
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Describe insulin cell signalling:
- Insulin receptor binds to insulin - Phoshoration of IRS-1 protein - IRS-1 recruitments of GRB2 activating Ras pathway - IRS-1 activating PI-3 kinases to catalyse addition of phosphate group PIP2 converting PIP2 to PIP3 - PIP 3 binds a protein kinase called Akt (activated by other protein kinase) - Akt activated phosphorylation key proteins increasing in glucagon synthesis activity and recruitment of GLUT-4 - GLUT-4 binds to glucose and brings inside cell

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