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Endocrine System- Anatomy Flashcards

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T or F: Hormones can make you grow to be nine feet tall

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true

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T or F: Hormones can affect your ability to taste salty foods

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T or F: Hormones can make you very sensitive to high-pitched sounds.

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T or F: Hormones cause a young man to begin to grow facial hair

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T or F: Hormones can help fight stress

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T or F: Hormones determine what color eyes you have

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T or F: Hormones can cause you to be allergic to milk

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T or F: Hormones can make your heart beat faster when you are scared

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T or F: Hormones can soothe you

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T or F: Hormones can cause your hands to tremble when you are nervous

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T or F: Hormones affect how much energy you have

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T or F: Hormones affect how fast or slow you read

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T or F: Hormones tell your body how fast it should grow

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T or F: Hormones give you the strength and energy to fight or run when in a dangerous situation

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T or F: Hormones cause your voice to change, especially in boys

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T or F: Hormones can make twins become triplets before they are born

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T or F: Hormones tell your body how to swallow

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T or F: Hormones help control when you sleep and when you wake

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Differentiate Endocrine and Exocrine function in the pancreas

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  • Exocrine: produces pancreatic enzymes used in digestion; break down foods (95%)
  • Endocrine: release hormone directly into bloodstream; produces insulin and glucagon to control blood sugar levels (5%)
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What are the functions of the Endocrine System?

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1) Produce hormones
2) Coordinates with the nervous system
3) Regulates growth, metabolism, sexual development
4) Responds to stress and injury

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Compare and Contrast Type 1 diabetes and Type 2

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  • BOTH: occur when the body cannot properly lower glucose levels; both are disorders of the pancreas
  • Type 1: people do not produce insulin; occurs more in children; non-reversible
  • Type 2: people do not respond to insulin as well as they should; occurs mostly in adults; reversible
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What is the fight-or-flight response? What starts this response? What does this response cause in the human body?

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1) The body’s response to a stressful situation.
2) The body responses to a stressful situation by producing more adrenaline and cortisol.
3) This response causes increased heart rate and breathing, sweating, more alert, and muscle contraction.

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What are hormones? What process do they go through to affect organ systems?

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  • molecular signals produced by cells of the endocrine system
  • released by glands, circulate through body, attach to special receptor cells to do their function
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Pituitary gland: causes milk letdown in nursing mothers and contractions during childbirth

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oxytocin

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Pituitary gland: regulates water balance

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Antidiuretic hormone

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Pituitary gland: stimulates body cells to make proteins; fuels childhood growth and helps maintain tissues and organs throughout life

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growth hormone

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Pituitary gland: causes the breasts to grow and make milk during pregnancy and after birth

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prolactin

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Pituitary gland: stimulates the thyroid gland to make thyroid hormones regulate the body’s metabolism, energy, growth and development, and nervous system activity

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thyroid

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Pituitary gland: stimulates production of cortisol by the adrenal glands; cortisol helps maintain blood pressure and blood glucose levels

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adrenocorticotropin

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Pituitary gland: promotes sperm production in men and stimulates the ovaries to release eggs in women

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Follicle

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Pituitary gland: regulates testosterone in men and estrogen in women

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Luteinizing

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What hormones are produced by the pituitary gland?

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oxytocin, antidiuretic, growth, prolactin, thyroid, adrenocorticotropin, follice, luteinizing

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What hormones are produced by the thyroid gland?

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T3 & T4, Calcitonin

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What hormones are produced by adrenal glands?

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Epinephrine, Aldosterone, Cortisol, Sex hormones

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What hormone is produced by the teste?

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testosterone

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What hormone is produced by the ovary?

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estrogen

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What hormones are produced by the pancreas?

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insulin & glucagon

38
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What hormone is produced by the thymus?

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thymosins

39
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What does the parathyroid hormone do?

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calcium from bones

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Which hormones cause secondary sex characteristics? What are some of these characteristics? Give one example for males, and one for females.

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  • estrogen & testosterone
  • develop later in life
  • males: facial hair, voice deepens
    females: menstrual cycle, ability to reproduce
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What hormone is produced by the pineal gland?

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melatonin

42
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energy

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T3 & T4

43
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calcium from bones

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Calcitonin

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increase heart rate

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Epinephrine

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maintain blood pressure

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aldosterone

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stabilize blood glucose

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cortisol

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male and female function

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sex hormones

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male development

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testosterone

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female development

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estrogen

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raise blood sugar

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glucagon

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uptake of glucose

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insulin

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immune function

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thymosins

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calcium from bones

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parathyroid hormone

54
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sleep cycles

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melatonin

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