ENDOCRINE SYSTEM Flashcards
True or false. Endocrine and nervous system compliment each other
True
The endocrine system relies on the production and release of hormones from various glands transport of hormones via the ___
Bloodstream
the scientific study of hormones and endocrine organs
Endocrinology
Hormones are classified chemically as: (3)
Amino-acid based, steroids, prostaglandins
Hormones that are proteins, peptides, and amines
Amino-acid based
Hormones made from cholesterol
Steroids
Hormones made from highly active lipids that act as local hormones
Prostaglandins
How do specific hormones only affect certain tissues or organs?
Presence of target cells that have specific protein receptors
Hormone levels in the blood are maintained mostly by?
negative feedback
What triggers the release of more hormone?
A stimulus or low hormone levels in the blood
Most common category of stimulus. Endocrine organs are activated by other hormones
Hormonal stimuli
Changing blood levels of certain ions and nutrients stimulate hormone release
Humoral stimuli
What are produced in response to changing levels of blood calcium levels?
parathyroid hormone and calcitonin
What is produced in response to changing levels of blood glucose levels?
Insulin
Nerve fibers stimulate hormone release. Most are under the control of the sympathetic nervous system
Neural stimuli
All glands have purely endocrine functions except?
Pancreas and gonads (they both have endocrine and exocrine)
Pea-sized glands that hangs by a stalk from the hypothalamus in the brain
Pituitary gland
Protects the pituitary gland
sella turcica of the sphenoid bone
Glandular tissue that produces a total of 6 pituitary hormones
Anterior pituitary
general metabolic hormone ; major effects are directed to growth of skeletal muscles & long bones
Growth hormone
usually result from tumors of the affected gland; hypersecretion of GH during childhood
Gigantism
due to hyposecretion of GH during childhood; maximum adult height is 4 feet
Dwarfism
stimulates and maintains milk production following childbirth
Prolactin
stimulates follicle development in ovaries (for estrogen production and preparation for ovulation) ; stimulates sperm development in testes
Follicle-stimulating hormone
triggers ovulation of an egg in females (for progesterone production & some estrogen); stimulates testosterone production by the interstitial cells in males
Luteinizing hormone
Hyposecretion of FSH and LH
Sterility
influences growth and activity of the thyroid gland
thyroid-stimulating / thyrotropic hormone
regulates endocrine activity of the adrenal cortex
adrenocorticotropic hormone
Does not make the hormones it releases and stores hormones made by the hypothalamus
Posterior pituitary
stimulates contractions of the uterus during labor, sexual relations, and breastfeedings
Oxytocin
causes milk ejection in a breastfeeding woman and stops poast-partum bleeding
Oxytocin
inhibits urine production (diuresis) by promoting water reabsorption by the kidneys, urine volume decreases while blood pressure increases
Antidiuretic
Large amounts of antidiuretic causes ___, leading to increased blood pressure
Constriction of arterioles
Often called the master endocrine gland
Pituitary gland
produces releasing hormones and inhibiting hormones
Hypothalamus