Endocrine System for Moving Exam Flashcards
Endocrine Glands include the following:
Pituitary, Thyroid, Parathyroid, Adrenal, and Pineal Glands, Thymus Gland
Give me the function of hormones:
- Help regulate chemical composition and volume of internal environment, metabolism, and energy balance; contraction of smooth and cardiac muscle fibers; Glandular secretions; and immune activities.
- Control growth and development
- Regulate operation and reproductive systems
- Help establish circadian (sleep-wake cycle) rhythms
It is a mediator of the endocrine system that controls body activities.
Hormones
It is a molecule that is released from one part in one part of the body but regulates the activity of cells in other parts of the body
Hormones
Secrete their products into ducts that carry the secretions into body cavities into the lumen of an organ, or to the outer surface of the body.
Exocrine Glands
What are the characteristics of the nervous system and endocrine systems?
Molecules
Site of action
Types of target cells
Time to onset of action
Duration of action
Secrete their products into the interstitial fluid surrounding the secretory cells rather than into ducts.
Endocrine Glands
What is the formula of the Endocrine Glands?
Secreting Cell==> Hormone it secretes==> Target cell of that hormone.
What do you call to hormones that are present in excess, but the number of target cell receptors decreases and make the target cells less sensitive to a hormone?
Down-regulation
When a hormone is deficient, the number of target cells receptors may increase and make the target cells more sensitive to a hormone.
Up-regulation
3 factors that the responsiveness of a target cell to a hormone depends on it.
- Hormone concentration in the blood
- The abundance of the target cell’s hormone receptors.
- Influence exerted by the hormones.
The actions of some hormones on the target
cells require a simultaneous or recent
exposure to a second hormone.One can function without another hormone, however, just weakly;
presence of a helping or another
hormone just stimulates it to be more
powerful than it is alone.
Permissive Effect
The effect of two hormones acting
together is greater or more extensive
then the effect of each hormone acting
alone. Without one of the hormones, the other
won’t work.
Synergistic Effect
One hormone opposes the actions of
another hormone
Antagonistic Effect
It is the primary link between the nervous and endocrine systems and is connected to the pituitary gland by a stalk.
Hypothalamus
It helps in releasing other hormones.
Releasing Hormones
It inhibits the release of other hormones.
Inhibiting Hormones
Hypothalamus secretes five releasing hormones. State those five releasing hormones.
- Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH)
- Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)
- Prolactin-releasing hormone (PRH)
- Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)
Hypothalamus produces two inhibiting hormones, which suppress the secretion of anterior pituitary hormones. State those two inhibiting hormones.
- Growth hormone-inhibiting hormone (GHIH)
- Prolactin-inhibiting hormone (PIH)
This is also known as somatocrinin which stimulates the secretion of the growth hormone.
Growth hormone-releasing hormone
It stimulates the secretion of thyroid-stimulating hormones.
Thyrotropin-releasing hormone
It stimulates the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone.
Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)
Stimulates the secretion of prolactin
Prolactin-releasing hormone.
Stimulates the secretion of FSH and LH
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone.
Also known as somatostatin, it suppresses the secretion of growth hormones.
Growth hormone-inhibiting hormone
Also known as dopamine, it suppresses the secretion of prolactin.
Prolactin-inhibiting hormone
Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone GHRH- what is the target cell?
Somatotrophs
Growth Hormone Inhibiting Hormone-GHIH What is the target cell?
Somatotrophs
what is secreting cell for all releasing and inhibiting hormones?
Hypothalamus
Thyrotropin- TRH what is the target cell?
thyrotrophs
Corticotropin Releasing Hormone-what is the target cell?
Corticotrophs
Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone- What is the target cell?
Gonadatrophs
Prolactin Releasing Hormone- What is the target cell?
Lactotrophs
Prolactin Inhibiting Hormone-What is the target cell?
Lactotrophs
Where are all cells located that hormones released from the hypothalamus target?
Anterior Pituitary Gland
what is the effect of GHRH on the target cell?
trigger release of growth hormone
What is the effect of GHIH on the target cell?
Stop release of growth hormone