Chapter 42- Endocrine System Flashcards
What is a hormone? Where is it secreted into and how does it travel to different types of the body?
Regulatory chemical that is secreted into extracellular fluid and carried by the blood
What are the 2 basic hormone characteristics?
- Must be sufficiently complex to convey regulatory information to their target cells
- Must be adequately stable to resist destruction before
reaching their target cells
What are the 5 mechanisms for signaling? describe each
1) classical endocrine - systemic
2) paracrine regulators - allow cells of organ to regulate eachother and do not travel in blood
3) autocrine regulators - self
4) neurohormone - released from neruons and travel in blood
5) pheromones - chemicals released into the environment to communicate among individuals of a single species, Not involved in normal metabolic regulation within an animal
What is the difference between neurotransmitters and neurohormones?
neurotransmitters act locally typically in the synapse while neurohormones are carried by blood. However, both can travel in the blood and act as a hormone.
What is norepinephrine? Is it a neurotransmitters or neurohormones?
It’s a neurotransmitter that coordinates the activity of heart, liver, and blood vessels during stress
What is antidiuretic hormone? Is it a neurotransmitters or neurohormones?
It’s a neurohormone secreted by neurons of the brain
What are the 4 classes of signaling molecules?
amine, steroid, peptide, and fatty acid
What signaling mechanisms do amine hormones use?
classical and neuroendocrine
What are most amine hormones based on?
tyrosine
What are amine hormones?
Most are hydrophilic molecules, which diffuse readily into the ECF and bind to receptors at the cell surface
What is thryoxine?
hydrophobic amine hormone secreted by the thyroid gland – it passes through the plasma membrane and binds to a receptor inside the target cell
What signaling mechanisms do peptide hormones use?
classical and neuroendocrine, may also act in paracrine and autocrine signaling
What is the structure of peptide hormones? Examples
Made of amino acid chains (3 to >200 amino acids), Some have carbohydrate groups attached. They are released into the blood or ECF. ex) growth factors
What signaling mechanisms do steriod hormones use?
classical
What are all hydrophobic molecules derived from?
cholesterol
What is the structure of steroid hormones? examples?
Combine with hydrophilic carrier proteins to form water soluble complexes that can diffuse through the ECF and
enter the bloodstream.
On contacting a cell, the hormone is released from its carrier protein, passes through the plasma membrane of the target cell, and binds to internal receptors in the nucleus or cytoplasm
ex) aldosterone, cortisol,
and the sex hormones
What signaling mechanisms do fatty acid hormones use?
paracrine and autocrine
What are prostaglandins? (3 functions)
1) local regulator fatty acid hormone, which can Increase contractions of smooth muscle cells, particularly in the uterus.
2) Induce contraction or relaxation of smooth
muscle cells in blood vessels and air passages in
the lungs.
3) Intensify pain and inflammation in injured cells
What are the two functional classes of hormones?
lipophilic fat soluble and hydrophilic water soluble
What are lipophilic fat soluble hormones? (4)
nonpolar, steroid and thyroid hormones, travel on transport proteins in blood, bind to intracellular receptors, long active period
What are hydrophilic water soluble hormones? (4)
all other hormones, freely soluble in blood, bind to extracellular receptors, act over a brief time period
What is amplicfication?
each activated protein activates a larger number of
proteins for the next step in the pathway, small amounts of hormone can created a large effect
What does structures do the endocrine system include? 9 main glands?
all organs and tissues that secrete hormones
thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, adrenal medulla, adrenal cortex, gonads, pancreas, pineal gland, pituitary, hypothalamus
What is the pituitary gland also known as? location? structure?
aka hypophysis, hangs by a stalk from the hypothalamus, made of anterior pituitary (adeno-hypophysis) and posterior pituitary (neuro-hypophysis)