Anatomy Final part 4

Question 1

19. What portion of the pituitary gland produces hormones?

Answer 1

Anterior, or adino hypocsis

Question 2

20. How does the hypothalamus communicate with the pituitary gland?

Answer 2

They communicate through capillaries connecting them

Question 3

22. What is the target for ADH and what effect does it cause?

Answer 3

ADH targets kidneys and has them reabsorb water

Question 4

22. Where is the tyroid gland located?

Answer 4

Front of the top of your adam’s apple(your neck)

Question 5

23. What is the inactive compound stored in thyroid follicles?

Answer 5

Thyroglobulin

Question 6

24. Name two thyroid hormones and describe their target tissues.

Answer 6

T3 and T4 they target just about any cell or tissue they up-rate the production of just about anything

Question 7

25. How many parathyroid glands are there, and what do they produce?

Answer 7

4 of them produce Parathyroid hormone which increase body’s Ca and enhances resorption rate by kidneys and gut increases osteoclast development

Question 8

26. What are the three targets of PTH? Does it work directly on those targets?

Answer 8

Kidneys(increases calcitriol production) Bones

Question 9

27. What two parts of the adrenal glands have separate endocrine functions?

Answer 9

Medulla, and cortex

Question 10

28. How many functional layers exist in the adrenal cortex? Why is this significant?

Answer 10

3 each zone produces different hormone

Question 11

29. What hormones are produced by the adrenal medulla?

Answer 11

eponephrine , noreponephrine

Question 12

30. Which endocrine gland produces melatonin?

Answer 12

Pineal gland. (Melatonin inhibits reproductive function

Question 13

31. How much of the pancreas is endocrine in function?

32. What does the other (exocrine) part do?

Answer 13

1%

Exocrine= pancreas helps with digestion

Question 14

33. What do pancreatic alpha cells produce?

What do beta cells produce?

Answer 14

Alpha- glucagen

Beta- Insolen

Question 15

34. Can non-endocrine tissues produce hormones?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

35. With respect to hormone interactions, describe:
Anatagonism
Synergism
Permissive effects
Integrative effects

Answer 16

Antagonism- one is blocking the other
Synergism- two hormones are comboing with each other(produce more than expected)
Permissive effects- one hormone prepares the environment for another
Integrative effect- using multiple methods to achieve the same effect