Cell signalling and hormones Flashcards

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How can diurnal rhythms change?

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Can gradually change in response to a change in lifestyle, such as when entering a different timezone or having night shifts

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What are hormones?

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Chemicals released by glands to elicit a response, enhancing or inhibiting cellular reactions

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How is the endocrine and nervous systems related?

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Operate in synchrony. Hormones act more slowly and have longer lasting effects (exception of adrenaline)

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What is information processing?

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Half of the largest families of proteins deal with information processing. Process from nervous stimulation to muscular contraction

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What happens to a lipid insoluble molecule acting as a cell signal?

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Forms a ligand-receptor complex and enters cell

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What are intracellular receptors?

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Lipid soluble hormones; intracellular receptor binding; steroid hormones; thyroid hormones; vitamin D3; vitamin A; oestrogens; androgens; e.g. glucocorticoids

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What does the thyroid gland do?

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Converts iodine to thyroid hormones, which are major metabolic hormones which all cells are dependent on

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What are thyroid hormones?

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Thyroxine (T4), and triiodothyronine (T3)

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What are increased T3 and T4 associated with?

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Increased oxidative substrate metabolism (mitochondrial enzyme activity)

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What physiological changes occur with hyperthyroidism (opposite changes to hypothyroidism)?

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Increased metabolic rate = heat intolerance, protein catabolism (= muscle breakdown). Increased heart rate

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What do glucocorticoids do?

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Affect mobilisation of GLUT-4 to cell membrane, increasing glucose uptake from blood; affect breakdown of proteins, producing free amino acids, to enable gluconeogenesis; block process of glycolysis when glycogen storage is too low

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How does glucocorticoids initiate responses?

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Diffuses through phospholipid membrane (as is lipid soluble); bind with receptor; cause cascade of enzymatic event or bind to DNA and cause gene transcription

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What can cell signals be?

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Hormones, chemical elements, light, heat, water

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What can the purposes of cell signalling be?

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Warn off pathogens and/or infections; alter/regulate metabolic processes; switch genes on/off; cell division, differentiation, adaptation

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What are types of cell signalling?

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Autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine

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What are the differences between auto-, para-, and endocrine?

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Autocrine signal same cell as released from (by cytokines); paracrine signal nearby cells (by cytokines); endocrine signal far away cells in a multi-cellular organism (by hormones)

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What is signal transduction?

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Cascade of events that mediates sensing and processing of signal (detect, reception, amplify, respond)

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What are different responses created by cell signals?

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Change metabolism of cell (enzymatic activity changed); change electrical charge across membrane (ion channel activity); change gene expression

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What is universal to all receptors?

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All are integral membrane proteins

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What are secondary messengers, and examples?

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Relay signal from receptor-ligand complexes; cAMP, cGMP, Ca, IP3, DAG

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What are catecholamines?

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Chemicals released from adrenal medulla and sympathetic nerve endings; augment sympathetic neural effects; PA directly governs the quantity of secretion

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What are two catecholamines?

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Adrenaline and noradrenaline

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How does adrenaline affect CV system?

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Increases CO; redistributes CO to muscular and hepatic circulation with only a small change in MAP

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How does adrenaline affect substrate metabolism during exercise?

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Increases liver glycogenolysis; stimulates gluconeogenesis in prolonged exercise

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Where is cortisol released from?
Adrenal cortex
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What is cortisol released in response to?
Physical or emotional stress
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What are effects of cortisol?
Increases effectiveness of catecholamines; promotes carb, protein and fat catabolism (muscle pp breakdown = stimulation of aa's for synth of glucose for gluconeogenesis); stimulated release of FAs from adipose
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What are growth factors?
Developmental regulatory factors; regulate cell growth, division, differentiation, and apoptosis
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What are DHEAs?
Precursors for sex hormones, so decrease with age; are released from adrenal gland
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How are DHEAs affected by PA?
Increase with increased intensity of PA
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How do kinases activate/inactivate proteins?
Transfer Pi to protein; Pi has -ve charge; changes conformation of protein; changes function of protein
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What do tyrosine kinases do?
Phosphorylate tyrosine amino acid
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How many genes code for tyrosine kinases?
>200
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How many tyrosine kinases are there?
>90
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What are responses/ receptors to tyrosine kinases?
Ras signal transduction pathway; PI3 kinase pathway; JAK/STAT protein receptors
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Why is the PI3 kinase pathway important?
Important in insulin response; insulin attaches to receptor; receptor autophosphorylated on tyrosine; IRS attaches to receptor and is phosphorylated - GLUT4 via Ras; produces secondary messenger; glycogen synthase is activated