Endocrine System, Glands And Hormone Activity

Question 0

The endocrine system controls body activities by releasing

Answer 0

Hormones with most of which entering interstitial fluid and then the blood stream

Question 1

The endocrine consists of

Answer 1

Endocrine glands and other hormone- secreting tissues

Question 2

Hormone affects only specific target cells with receptors that bind and recognize that hormone

Answer 2

Right

Question 3

Hormones may effect the cells that do not have receptors for the

Answer 3

Wrong

Question 4

Cells have receptors for only one type of hormone

Answer 4

Wrong

Question 5

When one hormone opposes the actions of another hormone the two hormones are said to have

Answer 5

Antagonistic effects

Question 6

When the effects of two hormones acting together is greater than the effect of each hormone acting along the two hormones are said to have

Answer 6

Synergistic effects

Question 7

Which structures has only an endocrine function

Answer 7

Thyroid gland, adrenal cortex, adrenal medulla

Question 8

What stores the hormones secreted by the hypothalamus

Answer 8

Posterior pituitary

Question 9

What causes an increase in the basal metabolic rate

Answer 9

Thyroxine

Question 10

With respect to regulation of blood Ca2+ which two hormones are antagonists

Answer 10

Calcitonin and parathyroid hormone

Question 11

Thyroid hormone is the antagonist of calcitonin

Answer 11

Wrong parathyroid hormone

Question 12

What does not have an effect on the breasts

Answer 12

Aldosterone

Question 13

Calcitonin can lower blood levels of Ca2+ by

Answer 13

Inhibiting bone reabsorption by osteoclasts

Question 14

What type of cells secret glucagon which acts on liver cells(target cells) and raises blood glucose level

Answer 14

Alpha cells

Question 15

The secretion of glucagon is inhibited by

Answer 15

High blood glucose levels

Question 16

What cell secrete insulin which lowers blood glucose level and increases glucose uptake by cells

Answer 16

Beta cells

Question 17

The secretion of insulin is inhibited by

Answer 17

Low blood glucose levels

Question 18

What hormones do not program T-lymphocytes

Answer 18

Thymopoietin and thyroxine

Question 19

What causes suppression of inflammation and depresses immune responses

Answer 19

Glucocorticoids

Question 20

What nervous system affects the secretion of hormones from the adrenal medulla

Answer 20

Sympathetic

Question 21

Epinephrine and norepinephrine intensify what type of response and has what kind of reaction on the body

Answer 21

Fight or flight response and increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, increased blood flow to the heart and dilated airways to the lungs

Question 22

Heart

Answer 22

Atrial natriuretic peptide

Question 23

Kidneys

Answer 23

Renin

Question 24

Placenta

Answer 24

Human chorionic gonadotropin

Question 25

Anterior pituitary

Answer 25

Growth hormone, prolactin

Question 26

Hypothalamus

Answer 26

Antidiuretic hormone, oxytocin

Question 27

Pineal gland

Answer 27

Melatonin

Question 28

Adrenal cortex

Answer 28

Aldosterone

Question 29

Stress response occurs in three stages

Answer 29

Fight or flight, resistance reaction, and exhaustion

Question 30

What is fight or flight in stress response and how is it initiated

Answer 30

Short term is initiated by nerve impulses from the hypothalamus to the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system

Question 31

Resistance reaction in stress response is? And how is it initiated

Answer 31

Long term is initiated by releasing hormones secreted by the hypothalamus

Question 32

How is epinephrine related to stress response

Answer 32

Short term

Question 33

How is cortisol related to stress response

Answer 33

Long term

Question 34

Disorders of the endocrine system often involve two conditions

Answer 34

Hyposecretion and hypersecretion

Question 35

Hyposecretion

Answer 35

Inadequate release of a hormone

Question 36

Hypersecretion

Answer 36

Excessive release of a hormone

Question 37

Diabetes mellitus

Answer 37

Hyposecretion of insulin

Question 38

Diabetes insipidus

Answer 38

Hyposecretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH)

Question 39

Graves' disease

Answer 39

Hypersecretion of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)

Question 40

Cushing's syndrome

Answer 40

Hypersecretion of cortisol

Question 41

Seasonal affective disorder

Answer 41

Hypersecretion of melatonin

Question 42

Congenital hypothyroidism (cretinism)

Answer 42

Hyposecretion of thyroid hormone