Endocrine Disorders Flashcards
Endocrine system consists of glands that secrete what?
Chemical messengers called hormones
What helps regulate the body’s functions including; energy, metabolism, response to stressors, thirst, reproduction, and others?
Hormones
When endocrine functions are disrupted to a significant degree it can be?
Life threatening.
Signs and Symptoms such as; abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, cardiac dysthythmia, altered mental status, dehydration, fatigue or weakeness could mean there is an underlying?
Endocrine problem.
Patients with endocrine disorders are higher risk for diseases such as?
cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Which glucose level can be life threatening, high or low?
Both
Hormones are like a key that can ?
Unlock only the doors they are specifically made to open.
only cells with a receptor for specific hormone molecules are?
affected by the presence of the hormone.
Negative feedback works like a?
Thermastat regulating a heating system.
when the body detects an abnormal condition such as low blood glucose or high blood glucolse, it stimulates?
a series of events to restore conditions to normal.
when the blood glucose level is low, certain cells in the pancreas secrete?
glucagon, a hormone that increases the glucose level
When the glucose level is hight, glucagon levels drop and other pancreas cells secrete?
insulin.
many hormones such as insulin and glucagon work in?
pairs with opposite actions.
Glucose is a simple carbohydrate molecule or sugar that is the preferred source of?
Energy for cells
Normal cell metabolism requires a steady source of?
Glucose
