Endocrine system Flashcards

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Endocrine glands

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No ducts

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Hormone

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Chemical messenger that gets dumped in the blood.

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Chemical classes of hormones

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Steroids - WILL GO INTO THE CELL
Peptides - SECONDARY MESSAGING SYSTEM. (faster actions)
Monoamines

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Steroids

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Cholesterol, hydrophobic
Gonads and adrenal glands
Estrogens, progesterone, testerone, calcitrol

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Peptides

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Proteins, ribosomes
pituitary and hypothalamus
Oxytocin, antidiuretic

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Monoamines

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Derived from amino acids
adrenal, pineal, thyroid gland
melatonin, epinephrine

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Hypothalamus

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8 hormones. 6 are regulatory and the other 2 are produced here but released somewhere else.

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Pituitary (hypophysis)

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Anterior Lobe (glandular)
Posterior Lobe (neural)
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Anterior pituitary (hypophysis) hormones. Adeno

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Follicle-stimulating  FSH
Luteinizing LH
Thyroid stimulating  TSH (Thyrotropin)
Adrenocorticotropic
Prolactin
Growth hormone
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Hypothalamus

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Gonadotropin-releasing GRH. Goes down and the adenohypophysis will secrete FSH and LH.
Thyrotropin-releasing. Goes down and adeno will secrete TSH
Corticotropin-releasing
Prolactin inhibiting hormone PIH. ade will not secrete prolactin
Growth hormone-releasing hormone. GHRH
Somatostatin (growth hormone and TSH inhibiting)

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Gonadotropins

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FSH follicle stimulating

LH luteinizing

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FSH

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Influences gonads to produce their follicles.
Testes = sperm cells
Ovaries = egg cells

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LH

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Acts on gonads to secrete its hormones
Testes = testosterone
Ovaries = Estrogen

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TSH

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Stimulates thyroid to secrete its hormones

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ACTH

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Adrenocorticotropic hormone stimulates adrenal glands to secrete its hormones

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PRL

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Prolactin. After birth stimulates the mammary gland to synthesize milk.
In males testosterone in males.

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GH

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growth hormone
various tissues to undergo mitosis to grow
The initial target organ and cells are in the liver, and it influenced the hepatocytes to produce 2 secondary hormones.
IGF1 and IGF2: because it has a short half-life, these two hormones prolong the life of the hormones. They act like GH hormone (almost an entire day)

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Tropic hormones

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Influences other glands to secrete their hormones
TSH
LH

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Posterior pituitary Neurohypophysis

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Antidiuretic hormone ADH

oxytocin

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ADH. Supraoptic nucleus

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Influences kidney to retain water
Can influence vessels to vasalconstrict
water back to blood, blood pressure increases
Can also influence vessels to constrict

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Oxytocin. Paraventricular nucleus

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OT
Bonding hormone
influences mammary glands to release milk.
Influences uterus to contract

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Secondary messaging system

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Allows peptide hormones to have an effect on the cell without having to go in.
Binding to a receptor and then activating the internal protein.

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G protein-mediated

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Start by activating a G protein (signal molecule)
The peptide hormone cant cross the membrane because it’s not fat soluble. that hormone will bind to the receptor on the outside. Once it binds the G protein becomes active. It splits into 3 subunits. Those subunits can move inside the cell and activate other things. All the subunits bind to a secondary membrane protein adenylate cyclase activating it. Once that it’s activated it will pick up ATP and convert it to cAMP. By doing that 2 phosphates are freed up. cAMP is the secondary messenger, it activates protein kinase (signal molecule). Protein kinase will phosphorylate enzymes. Once pho[horylated the enzymes can start doing whatever they are supposed to do.

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Protein kinase

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Phosphorylates enzymes, turning them on.

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IP3
Calcium has to be present in the cell somehow
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MCR. Metabolic clearance rate
The rate at which hormones clear from the blood.
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Half-life
Time to remove 50% of hormone from the body
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Hypophyseal portal system
It allows us to have a double exchange, and control over pituitary. Extra capillary bed. Hypothalamus and hypophysis
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Pineal gland
Secretes melatonin from serotonin SADs May regulate the timing of puberty
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Thymus
Endocrine, lymphatic and immune. T-cell maturation Thymopoietin, thymosin, thymulin that stimulates the activity of T-lymphocytes It Shrinks
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Thyroid
Largest truest endocrine gland. Composed of follicles that make the thyroid hormone. Increases metabolic rate Secretes
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Follicular cells
make thyroid hormone. | T3 and T4 are the active forms of thyroid hormone.
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Thyroid hormone
increases metabolic rate T3 and T4 Hypo and Hyper secreted