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Exam #3: Endocrine Flashcards

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Somatotrope

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  • Secrete Growth Hormone

- Large-sized secretory granules that occupy a large amount of cytoplasm

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Cotricotropes

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  • Secrete ACTH
  • Few secretory granules
  • Granules located next to the plasma membrane
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Thyrotropes

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  • Secrete TSH

- Numerous small size secretory granules

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Gonadotrope

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  • Medium sized

- More numerous than corticotropes

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Acidophils

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1) Somatotropes

2) Mammotropes

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Basophils

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1) Corticotropes
2) Thyrotropes
3) Gonatotropes

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Somatotrope

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  • Acidophil
  • Growth-Hormone/ Somatotropin
  • Growth of long bones & increase metabolism
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Somatotrophic Adenoma

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  • Tumor of the anterior pituitary that causes overproduction of somatotropin/ growth hormone
  • Causes Gigantism
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Acromegaly

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Excessive somatotropin/ growth hormone in the adult (epiphyseal plates closed)

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Mammotrope

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  • Acidophil
  • Prolactin
  • Stimulates lactation & development of mammary gland
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Prolactinoma

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  • Most common pituitary adenoma

- Blindness initially then galactorrhea

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Corticotropes

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  • Basophil
  • ACTH
  • Cortisol & corticosterone in adrenal cortex
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Thyrotropes

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  • Basophil
  • TSH
  • T3 & T4
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Gonadotropes

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  • Basophil
  • LH & FSH
  • Development of testes & ovaries/ reprodution
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Nuclei of the posterior pituitary

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  • Supraoptic nuclei & PVN

- Herring bodies & pituicytes

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Supraoptic Nuclei & PVN

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  • Secrete ADH & Oxytocin

- Form the hypothalamohypophyseal tract

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ADH

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  • Concentrates urine

- Conserves H20

18
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Oxytocin

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  • Milk ejection

- Uterine contraction

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Thyroid peroxidase

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  • Membrane bound enzyme is the apical domain of follicular cells
  • Oxidizes iodide to iodine, releases into lumen to iodinate tyrosine
20
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What do T3 & T4 increase?

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1) Cellular metabolism
2) Growth rate
3) Mental activity
4) Formation of fatty acids
5) Endocrine gland function
6) Carbohydrate metabolism
7) Synthesis of Cholesterol

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What do T3 & T4 decrease?

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Formation of phospholipids & TAGs

22
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Alpha

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  • Pink

- Glucagon

23
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Beta

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  • Blue

- Insulin

24
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Delta

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Somatostatin, which reduces smooth muscle contractions of the gut

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G-cells

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Gastrin, which stimulates parietal cells to produce HCL int eh stomach

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PP or F-cells

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Inhibit pancreatic exocrine function

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Zona Glomerulosa

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  • Mineralcortioids

- Aldosterone

28
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Zona Fasciculata

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  • Glucocortocoids

- Cortisol

29
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Zona Reticularis

30
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Cushing’s Syndrome

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  • Central obesity
  • excess ACTH
  • excess cortisol

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