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Question 1: Excessive amounts of PTH causes?
Answer:
Demineralization of bones, spontaneous fractures.
Question 2: Oxytocin release is and example of __.
Answer:
a positive feedback control mechanism
Question 3: Directly involved in milk production and ejection
Answer:
Oxytocin (hypothalamus) & prolactin (anterior pituitary) Question 4: Found in the pelvic cavity of the female, concerned with ova and female hormone production.
Answer:
Ovaries
Question 5: Testosterone is stimulated by what factor?
Answer:
Another hormone - testosterone
Question 6: Name 3 second messengers.
Answer:
Cyclic AMP, Cyclic GMP, & Inositol triphosphate
Question 7: Released in response to stressors
Answer:
Cortisone (adrenal cortex) & epinephrine (adrenal medulla)
Question 8: Glucocorticoids are released by?
Answer:
Zona fasciculata cells Question 9: T/F, The thyroid gland controls metabolic functions throughout life.
Answer:
True - it does control metabolic function Question 10: The most important regulator of electrolyte concentrations in extracellular fluids is?
Answer:
aldosterone Question 11: The release of hormones from adenohypophysis is controlled by secretions of __.
Answer:
hypothalamus
Question 12: norephinephrine is stimulated by what factor?
Answer:
The NS - NE
Question 13: Regulate the function of another endocrine gland
Answer:
ACTH, FSH, LH, & TSH - all produced by anterior pituitary
Question 14: Ride "horseback" on the thyroid gland.
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Parathyroid Question 15: A hormone produces in the adrenal cortex that enables the body to resist long term stress.
Answer:
Glucocorticoid
Question 16: An amino acid derivative can be a __.
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Hormone Question 17: Catecholamines and/or peptide hormones bind to receptors on the surface of cells that comprise target organs & cause __.
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Adenylate cyclase to generate cyclic AMP from ATP
Question 18: Questionable function; may stimulate the melanocytes of skin
Answer:
MSH (anterior pituitary)
Question 19: The second-messenger mechanism of hormone action operates by?
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Bindig to specific receptors and employing the services of G proteins and cAMP.Question 20: Chemically, hormones belong chiefly to two molecular groups, the __ and the __.
Answer:
steroids, amino acid based
Question 21: Lack of this causes abnormally small stature, normal proportions.
Answer:
Growth hormone (GH)
Question 22: Lack of this causes sexual immaturity.
Answer:
Estrogen & testosterone
Question 23: T4/T3 is stimulated by what factor?
Answer:
another hormone - T4/T3
Question 24: Aldosterone is stimulated by what factor?
Answer:
Humoral factors - aldosterone
Question 25: Mineralocorticoids are released by?
Answer:
Zone glomerulosa cells
Question 26: Lack of this causes tetany.
Answer:
PTH - tetany
Question 27: The __ gland declines in size & function with age.
Answer:
thymus
Question 28: Glucagon is released by?
Answer:
Alpha cells of the pancreatic islets (islets of Langerhans)