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Endocrine System Flashcards

1
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Consists of stomodeal ectoderm

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Adenohypophysis

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2
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Consists of neural ectoderm

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Neurohypophysis

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Stomodeal ectoderm thickens and form placode (invaginates) to form?

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Rathke’s Pocket

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4
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Ventral diencephalic neuroectoderm evaginates to form?

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Infundibulum

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Rathke’s pocket elongates and become a double-walled cup and forms?

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Adenohypophysis

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6
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Infundibulum forms the?

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Neurohypophysis

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Adenohypophysis and neurohypophysis fuses and forms?

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Pituitary gland

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Caudal portion of outer layer evaginates and forms?

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Pars tuberalis

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9
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Rostral portion of outer layer of cup, thickens?

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Pars distalis or anterior lobe

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Inner layer of the cup?

Adenohypophysis

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Pars intermedia

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11
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  • composed of glandular tissue with clusters, cords or hollow clumps of endocrine cells located between sinusoidal blood capillaries
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Adenohypophysis

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12
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  • largest part of adenohypophysis
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Pars distalis or pars anterior

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  • chief cell or principal cell
  • do not take up stains
  • small round cells that occur in clusters with little cytoplasm and without granules
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Chromophobes

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14
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  • take up stains
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Chromophils

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  • larger than chromophobes with granular acidophilic cytoplasm
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Acidophils

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  • larger than acidophils with a basophilic cytoplasm
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Basophils

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17
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2 types of acidophils?

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  • Somatotropes
  • Lactotropes or mammotropes or prolactin cells
18
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3 types of basophils?

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  • Thyrotropes
  • Gonadotropes
  • Corticotropes or proopiomelanocortins (POMC)
19
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  • lies adjacent to the pars nervosa, partially or completely encircling it
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Pars intermedia

20
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-highly vascular nervous tissue; composed of sinusoidal capillaries, unmyelinated nerve fibers, microglial cells and pituicytes (modified astrocytes)
- forms the hypothalamo-hypophyseal system

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Neurohypophysis

21
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Hypothalamic component of HNS?

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  • supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei
  • unmyelinated axons
22
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Neurohypophyseal component of HNS?

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  1. Median eminence
  2. Infundibular stalk
  3. Infundibular process or pars nervosa or neural lobe
  4. Infundibular recess
23
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Ectoderm lining the roof of diencephalon, the neural ectoderm evaginates to form?

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Epiphysis cerebri or pineal gland

24
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  • dorsal invagination of the diencephalon
  • lobulated with nervous tissue covered by pia mater
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Pineal gland or epiphysis cerebri

25
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2 cell types in pineal gland?

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  1. Pinealocytes or chief cells
  2. Astrocytes
26
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The only endocrine gland that stores its hormones extracellularly?

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Thyroid gland

27
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PP _ and PP _ gives off invagination to form thyroid diverticulum?

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1 and 2

28
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Cells of the thyroid diverticulum organize into follicles then secretes?

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Thyroxine

29
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2 types of cells present in thyroid gland?

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  1. Follicular cells
  2. Parafollicular cells or C cells
30
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  • lies cranial to the thyroid gland?
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External parathyroid gland

31
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Parafollicular cells or C cells of thyroid produces ________? In response to to hypercalcemia

A

Calcitonin

32
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  • embedded within the substance of the thyroid gland?
A

Internal parathyroid gland

33
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  • composed of cords or clusters of endocrine cells
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Parathyroid gland

34
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2 types of endocrine cells?

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  1. Chief or principal cells
  2. Oxyphil cells
35
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  • endocrine gland located at the cranial pole of the kidney
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Adrenal gland

36
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Adrenal gland; medulla is derived from?

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Neural crest cells

37
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Adrenal gland; cortex is derived from?

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Intermediate mesoderm

38
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Adult adrenal cortex secretes?

A

glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids

39
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2 types of cell present in the adrenal or suprarenal gland?

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  1. Epinephrine cells
  2. Norepinephrine cells
40
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Both controlled by hypothalamus of the brain?

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Adenohypophysis and Neurohypophysis

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