FEEDBACK MECHANISMS AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

Question 1

Cells that produce hormones

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endocrine cells

Question 1

Uses chemical cells called hormones, to send messages more slowly with far-reaching and long-term effects
Regulates metabolic proces

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endocrine system

Question 2

• Send messages with far-reaching and long-term effects
• Has vesicles in which hormones are synthesized
• Activates or deactivates pathways that produce enzyme

Answer 2

hormones

Question 3

receptors on the surface of the cell that cannot pass through the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane

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Water soluble (Protein)

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receptors are located in the cytoplasm of the target cell, it can easily pass through the cell membrane

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Water insoluble (Lipid)

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Can easily diffuse into the cell

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Steroid Hormones

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occurs when water-soluble hormones bind to their receptors

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Reception

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triggers several chemical reactions

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Signal Transduction

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responses in the cytoplasm or nucleus

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Response

Question 9

• the master control of the endocrine system.
• regulates the actions of the pituitary which has two lobes posterior and anterior lobes

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hypothalamus

Question 10

storing and secreting the hormones oxytocin and ADH which the hypothalamus produces

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Posterior lobe

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produces its own hormones

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Anterior lobe

Question 12

when the thyroid gland doesn’t make enough thyroid hormones to meet your body’s needs.

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hypothyroidism

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when the thyroid gland makes more thyroid hormones than your body needs.

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hyperthyroidism

Question 14

are hormones both produced by the pancreas to regulate the blood glucose levels

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Insulin and glucagon

Question 15

hormone that decreases the blood glucose concentrations

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insulin

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hormone that increases the blood glucose concentrations

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glucagon

Question 17

Nervous system: electrical signals; endocrine system: ___________

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chemical signals

Question 18

Protein hormones: cell-surface receptors;
steroid hormones: _____________

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intracellular receptors

Question 19

Posterior pituitary: oxytocin; anterior pituitary: ___________

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regrowth hormones

Question 20

Insufficient thyroid hormone: goiter;
_____________ : diabetes mellitus

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insufficient insulin/insulin insufficiency