Bio Class 8 Flashcards
Endocrine vs Exocrine glands
Endocrine
- product: hormones
- location: blood stream
- ducts: no ducts, straight into capillary network
Exocrine
- product: everything but hormones, mucus, sweat, stomach acid, etc
- location: body surface/cavity
- ducts: yes except for mucus cells
Steroids vs Peptides
- Made from?
- Location of receptor?
- Mechanism of action?
- Speed of effects?
- Longevity of effects?
Steroid
- made from cholestrol
- receptor inside cell
- binds to DNA and modifies transcription
- slow effect but more permanent
- eg. testosterone, progesterone, estrogen
Peptide
- made from amino acids
- receptor on surface
- acts as a secondary messenger
- fast effect but temporary
What is the fastest hormone?
epinephrine
Hormone release
Neuronal
- neurons trigger the release of hormones (eg. adrenaline)
Hormonal
- hormones trigger release of hormones (eg. Tropic hormones:ACTH)
Humoral
- particles in blood trigger release of hormones (eg. high glucose releases insulin)
Anterior vs posterior pituitary (characteristics)
Anterior
- produces 6 hormones: Tropic - FSH, LH, ACTH, TSH, direct hormone- Prolactin, GH
- Has glandular tissue
- also known as “adenohypophysis”
- hormones are made and released
Posterior
- produces 2 hormones: vasopressin (adh), oxytocin
- known as “neurohypophysis”
- has nervous tissue
- hormones are stored & released
Anterior pituitary process
Hormone-making cells that produce hormone and travels via capillary networks that are connected by portal vein
- every hormone released from anterior pituitary has a release hormone from hypothalamus
Posterior pituitary process
Neuron makes hormones and axon will start in hypothalamus and release in posterior pituitary
Arteries vs Veins
- pressure, how it moves, muscular walls, elasticity
Arteries
- high pressure because blood is pushed out
- blood moves by forward momentum
- has muscular walls so can direct blood wherever needed in body
- is elastic so can regain shape after stretching out
Veins
- low pressure
- blood moves by anything that squishes veins (eg. skeletal muscle contracting)
- no muscular walls or elasticity
- has valves to prevent back flow when muscles relax
Capillaries
Exchange of nutrients and waste, very thin
What is blood called when it’s in the…
lymphatic system?
in tissues without cells?
inside veins & arteries
lymph
interstitial fluid
plasm
Lymphatic system
When blood exits arteries, osmosis will bring it back in through the vein but there’s a lot of blood that exits so it goes through lymph system
- the lymph node is a concentrated area of WBC which monitors infections
Flow of blood
- From body you get deoxygenated blood that enters the right atrium through the superior/inferior vena cava
- The blood goes from RA to RV through the tricuspid atrioventricular valve
- Blood goes from RV to lungs through pulmonary artery by passing the pulmonary semilunar valve
- Blood reaches lungs & gets oxygenated
- Blood enters LA through pulmonary veins
- Oxygenated blood goes from LA to LV by passing the bicuspid (mitral) AV valve
- From LV to go to rest of body it passes the aortic semilunar valve through the aorta
Why is the LV more thick?
Blood needs higher pressure because being pumped to rest of the body which is further apart than pumping to eg. lungs
Lub Dup sound
Lub - where systole begins; AV valves close
Dup - where distole begins; Semilunar valves close
- Contraction of atria will push blood down and almost immediately the ventricle will start contracting.
- To ensure no back flow of blood, AV valves close
- Then pushed through the semilunar valves and when it relaxes it will close too
Systole vs Diastole
Systole- artery is contracted
Diastole - artery is relaxed
BP
Systole/Diastole
Pressure of artery when contracted / pressure of artery when relaxed
BP is directly proportional to…
Cardiac output
Peripheral resistance