Endocrine Organs Flashcards
Name 6 endocrine glands
Pineal, pituitary, thyroid/parathyroid, adrenal, ovaries/testes, and placenta
Part of the brain that is not a gland but still secretes hormones?
Hypothalamus
Function of the pineal gland
To secrete melatonin
List the 3 components of the 3 tiered chain of command or “axis”; Aka name the order in which the hormones go
Hypothalamic neurons, pituitary gland, and endocrine glands
Name the 3 specific axes
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis
Path of hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis
What does it regulate
Hypothalamus releases thyrotropin releasing hormone to pituitary which secretes TSH to activate thyroid gland to secrete thyroxine.
Thyroxine regulates metabolic rate and temperature
Path of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
What does it regulate
Hypothalamus releases CRH to pituitary which secretes ACTH which activates adrenal glands
Regulates secretion of cortisol
Path of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis
Hypothalamus releases GnRH to pituitary which secretes FSH and LH into circulation to reach ovaries/testes
Name an organ that is part of the growth axis
Explain
Liver
Hypothalamus releases somatostatin to regulate pituitary secretion of somatotropin (GH) which stimulates liver secretion of somatomedin (another growth hormone)
What part of the thyroid gland is midline
Isthmus
Thyroid gland synthesizes, stores, and secretes what two things?
Function (3)
T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine)
Increase metabolic rate, stimulating mitochondrial function and mitochondrial proliferation
What other hormone does thyroid gland synthesize, store and secrete?
Function?
Calcitonin
Promotes calcium storage in bone by inhibiting bone resorption
- Thyroid gland consists of which type of tissue when in store mode?
- When in secretory phase?
- Simple cuboidal epithelium
2. Simple columnar epithelium
Two principal endocrine cell types?
Follicular cells (thyrocytes) and parafollicular cells (clara or C cells)
- Two functions of follicular cells?
2. Function of parafollicular cells?
- Form the simple epithelium and synthesize/release thyroid hormone
- Synthesize/release calcitonin
Location of parafollicular and follicular cells in relation to each other?
Parafollicular cells are deep to follicular cells
- T3 is composed of what 2 things?
2. T4?
- Monoiodotyrosine + diiodotyrosine
2. Diiodotyrosine + diiodotyrosine