Endocrine Lab Flashcards
Tendency of living body to maintain relatively stable conditions in spite of changes in the external environment
Homeostasis
What is homeostasis also referred to as?
Dynamic steady state
Communication and coordination between cells to maintain homeostasis
Cell signaling
What is the function of the endocrine system?
produce and secrete hormones that regulate activity of cells and organs to maintain homeostasis
Secretes hormones into bloodstream
Endocrine
Secretes products through ducts to external environment
exocrine
The function of these hormones is to stimulate the production and secretion of hormones by targeting endocrine glands
Tropic hormones
Cell signaling: a cell targets a distant cell through the blood stream
Endocrine
Cell signaling: a cell targets a nearby cell
Paracrine
Cell signaling: a cell targets itself
Autocrine
Does endocrine or nervous system send faster signals?
nervous
Do nervous signaling or hormone effects have a longer duration of effect?
hormone effects
Pituitary, Pineal, Thyroid, Parathyroid, Thymus, Adrenal, Gonads, Pancreas
Endocrine glands
Which pituitary gland has glandular epithelial tissue?
anterior
Which pituitary gland has nervous tissue?
posterior
What hypothalamic hormones are stored in posterior pituitary gland?
OT and ADH
OT
oxytocin
ADH
anti-diuretic hormone
How is posterior pituitary gland connected to hypothalamus?
nerve axons
How is anterior pituitary gland connected to hypothalamus?
portal system
HGH
human growth hormone
TSH
thyroid-stimulating hormone
FSH
follicle-stimulating hormone
LH
luteinizing hormone
PRL
prolactin
ACTH
adrenocorticotropic hormone
MSH
melanocyte-stimulating hormone
What hormones does the anterior pituitary gland create and secrete?
HGH, TSH, FSH, LH, PRL, ACTH, MSH