Exam 1 Flashcards
What is the study of the endocrine system and the diagnosis and treatment of its disorders?
*endocrinology
What is glands, tissues, and cells that secrete hormones?
*endocrine system
What system is faster?
*nervous system but both are highly specific
What is the organs that are traditional sources of hormones?
*endocrine glands
What is a chemical messenger that are transported by the blood stream and stimulate physiological responses in cells of another tissue or organ, often a considerable distance away?
*hormone
What are the four principal mechanisms of communication between cells?
- gap junction
- neurotransmitters
- paracrines
- hormones
What are pores in cell membrane that allow signaling molecules, nutrients, and electrolytes to move from cell to cell?
*gap junctions
What is released from neurons to travel across synaptic cleft to second cells?
*neurotransmitters
What is secreted into tissue fluids to affect nearby cells (local neighbors?
*paracrines
What is a chemical messenger that travels in the blood stream to other tissues and organs?
*hormones
What is a biochemical (protein or steroid) secreted by a gland in response to changes in fluid chemistry neural, or hormonal control that alters the metabolism of a target cell?
*hormone
Secretion of hormones can be triggered by? (3)
- blood chemistry
- other glands and hormones
- nervous system
How are hormones triggered by blood chemistry?
*Ca++ levels and PTH
If Ca levels go down what happens to PTH levels?
*they go up and that targets osteoclasts
How are hormones triggered by other glands and hormones?
*pituitary and hormones
Calcitriol=
*hormone D (vitamin D)
How are hormones triggered by the nervous system?
*epinephrine from the adrenal gand in response to flight or fight (sympathetic input)
What are some changes in the metabolism of the target cells? (4)
- changes in membrane permeability (gates)
- changes in protein synthesis (DNA)
- changes in cell mitosis (growth)
- changes in protein activation (enzymes)
What are the classes of hormones? (3)
- amines
- peptides
- steroids (6)
What are amines?
*derived from single amino acids (norepinephrine)
What are 3 or more amino acids?
*peptides
What are most hormones?
*peptides
What are derived from cholesterol and are lipid soluble?
*steroids
What is cholesterol?
*water hating, hydrophobic
What classes of hormones are proteins, and hydrophilic?
*amines and peptides
What hormone cannot penetrate target cells?
*peptide hormones
What hormone binds to surface receptors and activates intracellular processes through second messengers?
*peptide hormones
What type of hormone penetrates plasma membrane and bind to internal receptors (usually in nucleus)?
*steroid hormone
What hormone influences expression of genes of target cells?
*steroid hormones
What hormone takes several hours to days to show effect due to lag for protein synthesis?
*steroid hormone
Are hormone concentrations in blood high or low?
*low
One hormone molecule can activate what?
*many enzyme molecules
A very small stimulus can produce what kind of effect?
*a very large effect
What hormone does the pineal gland secrete?
*melatonin (protein hormone)
What does melatonin target?
*most cells
What is the effect of melatonin?
*regulate day and night cycles (trigger daily rhythm)
How many hormones does the anterior pituitary gland produce?
*6
What hormones are secreted by the anterior pituitary gland?
- prolactin
- follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
- luteinizing hormone (LH)
- growth hormone
- thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)
- Adreno-cortico tropic hormone (ACTH)
How many hormones does the posterior pituitary release?
*2
What hormones are released by the posterior pituitary?
- anti-diuretic hormone
* oxytocin
What is oxytocin for?
- positive feedback
* child birth (contractions)
What hormones does the thyroid gland secrete?
- thyroxine
* calcitonin
What hormones does the parathyroid gland secrete?
*parathyroid hormone (PTH)
What is PTH involved in?
*bone metabolism
What hormone does the thymus secrete?
*thymosine
What is in the adrenal gland?
*cortex and medulla
What does the adrenal cortex secrete?
*cortisone, aldosterone, and androgen (sex hormone, estrogen and testosterone)
What does the adrenal medulla secrete?
*epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenaline)
What is the adrenal medulla?
*ganglion
What does the testes secrete?
*testosterone
What does the ovaries secrete?
*estrogen and progesterone
What does the pancreas secrete?
*insulin and glucagon
What gland is an endocrine and exocrine organ?
*pancreas
What does the hypothalamus do?
*monitors blood composition
How does the hypothalamus monitor blood composition?
*monitor temperature, blood glucose, and osmolarity
What does ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) target?
*kidney
What is the response of ADH?
*retain water (decrease urine, water balance, thirst mechanism)
What is the trigger of ADH?
*increase or decrease in osmolarity
What does oxytocin target?
*smooth muscle of female uterus
What is the response of oxytocin?
*contraction of smooth muscle, labor pains (positive feedback mechanism)
What is the trigger of oxytocin?
*birth
The anterior pituitary releases its product into the what?
*hypothalamus via portal system
What is a portal system?
*from capillary to capillary
What are the tropic cells that the hypothalamus delivers its product to?
- somatotrope
- gonadotrope
- thyrotrope
- mammotrope
- corticotrope
What does the somatotrope release?
*growth hormone
What does growth hormone target?
*all cells
What is the response of growth hormone?
*increase protein synthesis, increase lipolysis, spare glucose (keep brain happy)
What is the trigger of growth hormone?
*body growing (puberty)
What does gonadotrope secrete?
*LH and FSH
What does LH and FSH target?
*testes and ovaries
What is the effect of LH and FSH?
- production of gametes in testes
- effect in overies is maintenance of uterine cycles
- testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone releases
What is the trigger for LH and FSH?
*negative feedback (trigger testosterone and estrogen)
What does thyrotrope secrete?
*TSH
What does TSH target?
*thyroid gland
What is the effect of TSH?
*release thyroxine (T3 and T4)
What is the trigger of TSH?
*levels of thyrotrope (low)
What does mammotrope secrete?
*prolactin (PRL)
What does prolactin target?
*mammary glands
What is the effect of prolactin?
*milk production
What does corticotrope secrete?
*ACTH
What does ACTH target?
*adrenal cortex
What does ACTH produce?
*cortisone
What is cortisone?
- steroid (catabolic steroid, prevents chemical actions from happening)
- death hormone
- made of cholesterol
What is the trigger of ACTH?
*negative feedback
What is the thymus involved in?
*disease control
What does the thymus release?
*thymosine
What does thymosine target?
*T lymphocytes (white blood cells for immunity)
What is the effect of thymosine?
*mature of lymphocyte (makes it reproduce rapidly)
What is the trigger of thymosine?
*disease
What does thyroid release?
*T3 and T4 (thyroxine)