Endocrine System/ Cara Gambina Flashcards
Pancreas (Alpha cells)
Causes liver to release glycogen
Thyroid/(Calcitonin)
Responsible for increasing the deposition of calcium into bone
Pituitary gland/(Prolactin)
Causes the production of milk in woman
adrenal glands/Aldosterone
Causes the distal convoluted tubule of the nephron to retain more sodium at the loss of a 2 thirds less potassium.
Thyroid hormone
Responsible for driving your metabolism and raising your metabolic rate.
Insulin
Causes glucose and amino acids to be taken up by the muscle and adipose tissue and it also causes anabolic reactions in cells.
Oxytocin
associated with bonding in humans.nursing/ childbirth
Hypothalamus
Detects a significant deviation from set set point, it produces hormones called tropic hormones.
These tropic hormones go to the pituitary gland, which is located inferior to the hypothalamus in the sphenoid bone, via a very small portal vain and signal the anterior pituitary gland to start making 1 or two more hormones.
Infundibulum
Connecting the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland.
Infundibulum contains axons that go to centers of the hypothalamus to the posterior pituitary gland,
Diencephalon
Sits in the center of the brain
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Thalamus
Manly a relay point for afferent(sensory) nerve signals in the brain.
Hypothalamus
Monitors those signals closely
Produces hormones if sense a deviation.
Pineal gland
Is also part of the Diencephalon. The pineal gland receives sensory information from the eyes and helps establish circadian rhythms( day night cycles). It does so via the hormone melatonin which is produced at night.
Thyroid gland
Neck below the larynx and it wraps around the anterior trachea.
The thyroid gland produces an iodine containing hormone called thyroid hormone or thyroxine.
This hormone is vital for the driving your metabolism and raising your metabolic rate.
Parathyroid glands
4 pea sized - behind the thyroid
Maintaining a minimum blood calcium levels via the production of parathyroid hormone.
This hormone increases uptake of calcium in the kidneys and intestine as well as increases the activity of osteoclasts which break down bone releasing calcium in the process.
Adrenal glands and the pancreas
Located deep within the abdominal cavity.
Pancreas
Releases insulin
Glucagon
Is produced in response to low blood sugar.
Causes the liver to release glycogen stores into the body and produce new glucose from amino acids.
Pars nervosa
The axons they decend from the hypothalamus terminate in the pars nervosa.
Adrenal glands
Rest in the superior surface of the kidneys and they are in reality 2 glands. In the center of the adreanal gland is called the adrenal medulla and composed of nervous tissue.
Axons from the sympathetic nervous system stimulate chromafin cells to produce adrenalin ( epinephrine) and noradrenalin( nor epinephrine)
Calcitonin
Is a hormone that increases the activity of osteoblasts in your bone.
Parathyroid hormone
Does this by increasing the activity of bone eating osteoclasts as well as increasing the absorption of calcium in the intestines and rea sorbitol in the kidneys.
Thyroid
Calcitonin ( increasing calcium)
Thyroxine ( metabolism)
Pineal gland
Melatonin
Adrenal glands
Located posterior and inferior to the stomach and is responsible for producing 2 hormones that help regulate blood sugar.
Anterior pituitary gland
Acidophils
Acidophil
Pancreas
Acini cells
Pancreatic juice which aids digestion
Pancreatic islet cells
Produce the endocrine hormones of the pancreas.
Endocrine organs
Secretory epithelia that release hormones
STEROID HORMONES
Interns into cell change mRNA expression
NONSTEROID HORMONES
Trigger the activation of second messengers
Second messengers
Trigger changes inside cells
Tropic hormones
Hormones that cause release of other hormones.
Hypothalamus (tropic hormone)
Secretes hormones that stimulate anterior pituitary gland.
Anterior pituitary gland
Makes (ACTH) adrenocorticotropic hormone