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What levels do hormones work on?

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Whole body, molecular, cellular levels

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Activin has what effect on the anterior pituitary

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Enhances FSH synthesis

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Inhibin has what effect on the anterior pituitary

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Diminishes FSH synthesis

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What anterior pituitary hormone is under separate stimulatory and inhibitory hypothalamic control?

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Growth hormone

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What anterior pituitary hormone is under stimulatory hypothalamic control?

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FSH, LH, prolactin

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What is the metabolic clearance rate equation

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MCR= rate of disappearance / concentration

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How does the liver normally get rid of steroid hormones? What happens when it is diseased?

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Conjugation and excretion in the bile.

When you have liver disease, the steroid hormones go up b/c inability to conjugate

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What second messenger signaling uses inositol 1,4,5 triphosphate which causes a release of Ca++ and what does it do?

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Phospholipase C which ultimately phosphorylates proteins to induce physiologic effects

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What hormone acts directly on genes, affecting transcription

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T3, goes straight to the nucleus

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What does radio immunoassay use

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Radioactivity and labeling, for a known amount of hormone is labeled with radioactive iodine which is used to generate a standard curve

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What inhibits prolactin release by anterior pituitary gland

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Dopamine from the hypothalamus

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Which two anterior pituitary hormones, share the same stimulatory hypothalamic factor

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FSH and LH

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What are 3 of the functions of growth hormone

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Stimulates protein synthesis, cell multiplication, cell differentiation, and fat utilization for enhancing production of glucose

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What hypothalamic factor inhibits the release of growth hormone

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Somatostatin

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15
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What is associated with “metabolic syndrome”

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Increased clotting risk

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Growth hormone increases the use of what for energy decreasing carbohydrate utilization

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Fatty acids

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What is a major function of somatomedin C

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Prolongs the effects of growth hormones, pygmys lack somatomedin C

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When is the largest burst of growth hormone secretion in a young child

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Within one hour after onset of sleep

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What is a deficiency in thyroid hormone associated with?

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Mental retardation

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What is associated with a deficiency in growth hormones in children

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Short, delayed puberty, mild obesity

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What endocrine gland increases iodide trapping in glandular cells

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Thyroid

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What hormones are a part of the POMC family

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MSH, B lipotropin, B endorphin, ATCH

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What hormone stimulates uterine contraction

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Oxytocin

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What does prolactin do?

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Stimulates milk secretion, inhibits ovulation, enhance aspects of the immune response

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What hormone produces milk letdown and is released in response to suckling, and promotes bonding of mother and baby
Oxytocin
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What is the fate of most of the T4 that is secreted by the thyroid gland at target tissues
Converted to T3
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What hormone is produced by pineal gland, especially during sleep
Melatonin
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After a traumatic brain injury, how common is pituitary dysfunction
25-40%
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Which is more potent T3 or T4
T3 is 4x more potent
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What thyroid hormone is important in regulation of calcium levels in the body
Calcitonin
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What are calcitonin and PTH’s affect on calcium levels
Calcitonin lowers levels, PTH raises
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Hasimoto does what to the thyroid
Destroys it
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What does addison’s disease do
Autoimmune destruction of the adrenal cortex
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What does graves disease do?
Hypersecretion of TRH by hypothalamic neurons in response to abnormal antibodies that form against the TSH receptor
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What is associated with cretinism
Mental retardation, inhibited skeletal growth, treated with thyroxine
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What are symptoms of hypothyroidism
Fatigue, constipation, weight gain, myxedema
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What are symptoms of hyperthyroidism
Weight loss, diarrhea, exophthalmos, inability to sleep
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What is the direct precursor for aldosterone
Corticosterone
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What are functions of glucocorticoids
Gluconeogenesis, anti-inflammatory effects, suppression of immune response
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How are glucocorticoids involved in the maintanance of normal blood pressure
Up regulate alpha 1 adrenergic receptors
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A patient with elevated cortisol levels undergoes dexamethasone suppression test. Neither a low or high does suppresses cortisol
The hypercortisolism is likely due to adrenal cortical cortisol secreting tumor Low dose doesn’t, high dose does = hypercortisolism is likely due to anterior pituitary ACTH secreting tumor
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Aldosterone is mainly under control of what?
Angiotensin 2 Precusor cortisol makes ACTH renin and corticosterone
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What are functions of mineralocorticoids
Control ECF volume, stimulate renal K+ excretion, increase H+ secretion
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Autoimmune destruction of the entire adrenal cortex with decreased synthesis of all adrenocortical hormones is a characteristic of what
Addison’s disease
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Which class of hormones is synthesized from cholesterol
Steroid hormones
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What usually prevents over activity of hormone secretions
Negative feedback
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Plasma proteins binding T4 in the blood serves what function
Slows clearance of T4
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Why can liver disease cause abnormally high levels of steroid hormones
Decreased conjugation and decreased excretion of steroids in bile
49
Name some key parts of adenylyl cylase-cAMP 2nd messenger signaling
Use a Gs protein, inactivated by phosphodiesterase, phosphorylates proteins
50
What hormone acts directly on genes, affecting transcription and where does it go?
T3 goes to nucleus
51
What inhibits prolactin released by the ant. Pituitary gland
Dopamine from hypothalamus
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Which two ant. Pituitary hormones share the same stimulatory hypothalamic factor and what is the factor
FSH and LH, factor is GNRH
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What hypothalamic factor inhibits the release of growth hormone
Somatostatin
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Growth hormone increases the use of _____ _______ for energy by decreasing ______ utilization
Fatty acids..... carbohydrate
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What is the major function of somatomedin C
Prolongs the effects of growth hormone
56
What endocrine gland increases iodide trapping in glandular cells and what is the ratio
Thyroid, 1/5th take, 4/5th get rid of
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Name the hormones of the POMC family
MSH, B-lipotropin, B-endorphin, ACTH
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What autoimmune disease destroys the thyroid and is preceded by thyroiditis
Hashimoto’s disease
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The direct precursor for aldosterone is what?
Corticosterone
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What are functions of glucocorticoids
Gluconeogenesis, anti-inflammatory effects, suppression of the immune response
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How are glucocorticoids involved in the maintenance of normal blood pressure
Up regulate a1 adrenergic receptors
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Aldosterone is mainly under the control of which of the following
Angiotensin 2
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What are major functions of mineral-corticoids
Control ECF volume, stimulate renal K+ excretion, increase H+ secretion
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What would be the result of 17a-hydroxylase deficiency in adrenal cortex
Decreased levels of aldosterone(indirectly)
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Autoimmune destruction of the entire adrenal cortex with decreased synthesis of all adrenocortical hormones is characteristic of what?
Addison’s disease

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