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Diabetes and Endocrine Introduction Flashcards

1
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What are paracrine chemicals?

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Act local to the site of synthesis and do not travel?

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What are autocrine chemicals?

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Act in/on the same cell that synthesises it?

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What are exocrine chemicals?

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Released from exocrine glands via ducts to the external environment including the GI tract

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What is the effect of an exocrine chemical on a cell without the respective receptor?

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No response

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5
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What is a neurotransmitter?

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Chemical released by a neurone which acts locally within the synaptic cleft

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What is the neuroendocrine system?

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Nerves releasing hormones into the blood to the target cells

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7
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How is the adrenal medulla activated?

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Sympathetic NS

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What are the target tissues of insulin?

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Skeletal/adipose tissue

Liver

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What is the response of skeletal muscle/adipose tissue to insulin?

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Increased glucose uptake

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What is the response of the liver to insulin?

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Increased Glycogenesis

Decreased gluconeogenesis

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11
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The pineal gland produces what hormones?

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Melatonin

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12
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The hypothalamus produces what hormones?

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Trophic hormones

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13
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The posterior pituitary produces what hormones?

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Oxytocin

Vasopressin (ADH)

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14
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The anterior pituitary produces what hormones?

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Prolactin
HGH
ACTH
TSH
Follicle stimulating hormone
Luteinizing hormone
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The thyroid gland produces what hormones?

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Trilodothyronine and thyroxine

Calcitonin

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The parathyroid gland produces what hormones?

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Parathyroid hormone

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17
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The thymus gland produces what hormones?

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Thymosin

Thymopoeitin

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18
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The heart produces what hormone?

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Atrial natriuretic peptide

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19
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The liver produces what hormone?

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Angiotensinogen

Insulin-like growth factors

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20
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The adrenal cortex produces what?

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Aldosterone
Cortisol
Androgens

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21
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The adrenal medulla produces what hormones?

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Epinephrine

Norepinephrine

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22
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The pancreas produces what hormones?

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Insulin
Glucagon
Somatostatin
Pancreatic polypeptide

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23
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The kidney produces what hormone?

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Erythropoeitin

Vitamin D3

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24
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The testes produce what hormone?

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Androgens

Inhibin

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25
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The ovaries produce what hormone?

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Estrogen
Progesterone
Inhibin
Relaxin (pregnancy)

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26
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What are the 6 features of an endocrine hormone?

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Produces by cell or group of cells
Secreted from cells --> blood
Transported in blood to distal targets
Effective at very low concentrations
Act by binding to receptors
Actions terminated by feedback
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27
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What are the classifications of endocrine hormones?

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Peptide/protein
Amine
Steroid

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28
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What are peptide hormones?

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Composed by chains of amino acids

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29
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What are amine hormones?

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All derived from Tryptophan or Tyrosine

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30
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What are steroid hormones?

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All derived from cholesterol

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31
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What is the pathway of peptide hormone production?

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Synthesised as preprohormone
Cleaved into prohormone
Stored in vesicles
Cleaved into active hormone and peptide fragments and all secreted

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What are preprohormones?

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Inactive prohormones in a chain of 1 or more copy

33
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Where are preprohormones made?

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Ribosomes

34
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How are prohormones formed?

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Preprohormones cleaved into smaller units in the endoplasmic reticulum

35
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Where are prohormones packaged into vesicles?

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Golgi apparatus

36
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Prohormones are stored with what in vesicles?

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Proteolytic enzymes

37
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Proteolytic enzymes break prohormones into what?

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Hormone and fragments

38
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What is co-secretion?

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Hormones and fragments released into plasma together

39
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What is C-peptide?

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Inactive fragments cleaved from insulin prohormone

40
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Why is C-peptide measured instead of blood insulin?

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Because diabetic patients will have injected insulin recently

41
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What are typical C-peptide levels relative to insulin?

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5x ENDOGENOUS insulin

42
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Peptide hormones typically work via what cell surface receptors?

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Modulation of GPCR or Tyrosine Kinase Linked signalling pathways

43
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GPCR and Tyrosine Kinase Linked signalling pathways work how?

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Phosphorylation of existing proteins to modify their function

44
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How does a g-protein coupled receptor system work?

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Activated 2nd messenger system and/or ion channels with rapid response

45
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How does a tyrosine kinase linked receptor pathway work?

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Alters gene expression

Slower, longer lasting activity

46
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Amine hormones are mostly derived from what?

A

Tyrosine (amino acid)

47
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Which hormones are hydrophilic?

A

Peptide hormones

Catecholamines

48
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Which hormones are lipophilic?

A

Steroid hormones

Thyroid hormones

49
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Which amine hormone is not derived from tyrosine? What is it derived from?

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Melatonin - derived from tryptophan

50
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What are the two different groups of tyrosine derived hormones?

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Catecholamines - hydrophilic

Thyroid hormones - lipophilic

51
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When are steroid hormones synthesised? Why?

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Directly as needed

They can’t be stored by lipid membranes

52
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How are steroid hormones carried?

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Bound to albumin

53
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Why are steroids bound to albumin?

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Protects them from enzymes

Stabilises them, increasing their half life (60-90m)

54
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Where are steroid hormones produced?

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Gonads - Sex steroids
Placenta - hCG, Sex steroids
Kidney - Vitamin D3
Adrenal CORTex - CORTicosteroids

55
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Cholesterol becomes what in the adrenal cortex?

A

Aldosterone

Cortisol

56
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Cholesterol becomes what in the ovary?

A

Estradiol

57
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Receptors for steroid hormones are located where?

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Inside cells (cytoplasm & nucleus)
Outside cells - rapid response
58
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What is the effect of steroid hormones?

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Genomic effect

Activate or inhibit gene function

59
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The degree of effect of a hormones actions is dependent on what?

A

The extent of protein binding

The extent of receptors

60
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Why are steroid/thyroid hormones bound to carrier proteins?

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Steroid/thyroid hormones have poor solubility in plasma

Protection from degradation

61
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Albumin is a type of what?

A

Non-specific carrier protein

62
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Give an example of specific carrier protein?

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Corticosteroid-binding globulin

63
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What increases as a steroid is taken up?

A

More is released from the carrier allowing for a reservoir of action

64
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Peptide and catecholamine hormones are soluble in what?

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Water/plasma

65
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Why do Peptide and catecholamine hormones have a short half life? How long is it?

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Unbound so vulnerable to degradation

2-4minutes

66
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How do steroid/thyroid hormones alter protein synthesis?

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Modify gene expression

67
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A [Hormone]plasma is determined by what?

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Secretion:degradation/excretion

Negative feedback

68
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Parathyroid hormone is stimulated by what?

A

Low [Ca2+]

69
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Parathyroid hormone effects what organs?

A

Bone and Kidneys

70
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Parathyroid hormone has what effect?

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Increased bone resorption
Increased kidney Ca2+ reabsorption
Increased Calcitrol
(Increased [Ca2+]plasma)

71
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(Increased [Ca2+]plasma) causes what?

A

Negative feedback:

Inhibition of the parathyroid cell

72
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Prolonged exposure to low [hormone]plasma often leads to what?

A

Up-regulation of receptor number

increased tissue sensitivity to hormone

73
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Prolonged exposure to high [hormone]plasma typically leads to what?

A

Down-regulation of receptor number

decreases tissue sensitivity to hormone

74
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What are permissive effects?

A

Presence of one hormone enhances the effect of another

75
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What are antagonistic effects?

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Presence of one hormone reduces the effect of another

76
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Thyroid hormone has what permissive effect?

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TH increases the synthesis of receptors for epinephrine on adipocytes - increasing lipolysis

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