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Question 1

Syndrome
a type of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism that is associated with anosmia

olfactory bulb does not develop normally and hypothalamus fails to regulate FSH and LH releasae

Answer 1

Kallman syndrome

Question 2

syndrome characterized by obesity and gonadal undevelopment related to a pituitary tumor

Answer 2

Froehlich Syndrome

usual causes are: craniopharyngioma, glioma

Question 3

syndrome characterized by truncal obesity with reddish purple cutaneous striae over the abdomen and other parts, dryness and pigmentation of the skin and fragility of skin vessels

Answer 3

Cushings Disease/syndrome

Question 4

When adrenal insufficiency is secondary to disease in the pituitary, ACTH is expectedly to be

a. low/absent
b. normal
c. high

and cortisol secretion is ____
aldosterone _____

Answer 4

1. low/absent - ACTH
2. cortisol is markedly reduced
3. aldosterone - normal

Question 5

appetite center in the hypothalamus

Answer 5

ventrolateral nucleus

Question 6

satiety center in the hypothalamus

Answer 6

ventromedial nucleus

Question 7

leading cause of precocious puberty in both boys and girls

Answer 7

hamartoma of the hypothalamus

page 589

Question 8

state fo excessively dilute urine that results from loss of antidiuretic hormone/vasopressin

Answer 8

Diabetes Insipidus

Question 9

hormone secreted by the pineal gland

Answer 9

melatonin

Question 10

main cellular element of the pineal gland

Answer 10

pinealocyte

Question 11

cells in these nuclei of the hypothalamus responsible for secreting the following oligopeptides: vasopressin and oxytocin

Answer 11

supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei

Question 12

hormone responsible for inhibiting the release of GH

Answer 12

somatostatin, GHrelease -inhibiting hormone

Question 13

peptide synthesized in the liver that exerts feedback control of GH by inhibiting the pituitary somatotropes and stimulating the release of somatostatin

Answer 13

somatomedin C

Question 14

nuclei found in the anterior group of neurons in the hypothalamus

Answer 14

anterior group

supraoptic
preoptic
paraventricular

Question 15

nuclei found in the middle group of neurons in the hypothalamus

Answer 15

middle group

tuberal
arcuate
ventromedial
dorsomedial

Question 16

nuclei found in the posterior group of neurons in the hypothalamus

Answer 16

posterior

mammillary
posterior hypothalamic nuclei

Question 17

2 main efferent fiber systems in the hypothalamus

Answer 17

mammillothalamic tract

mammillotegmental tract

Question 18

inferior surface fo the hypothalamus which bulges downward from the floor of the 3rd ventricle and gives rise to the infundibulum

Answer 18

tuber cinereum

Question 19

T/F pineal tumors do not secrete melatonin

Answer 19

true

Question 20

oligopeptide that is hypothesized to be the cause of hyponatremia in cerebral salt wasting (Nelson Syndrome)

Answer 20

Atrial Natriuretic Factor