Final 2 Lec For MT3 Flashcards
Hydrophilic hormones (water loving)
• Highly water soluble : Low lipid solubility
Cells can make ahead of time and CAN CONTAIN until they are needed
Quicker response, available almost immediately bc they were just being stored
Ready to go
Lipophilic hormones (lipid-loving)
Highly lipid soluble: Low water solubility
Don’t travel well on own in blood
Cells that make them CANT contain them- they diffuse out and you prob have to make them on demand - have to wait to make them
Chemical properties of a hormone impact
a. If it can be stored in cells before release into bloodstream
b.How the hormone is carried throughout the bloodstream
c. Its metabolism and excretion
d. Its mode of action at target cells
Secretion vs storage
• Hydrophilic hormones can be stored in secretion vesicles after synthesis, secretion can be regulated separately from synthesis
• Lipophilic hormones diffuse out of cells as soon as synthesized
• Secretion rate can be pulsatile and/or follow a circadian rhythm
Transport
• Hydrophilic hormones are soluble in plasma
• Lipophilic hormones bound to both general and specific proteins in plasma
Secreted hormones can be modified to become less-active:
1) Hydrophilic: cleaved by circulating proteases (DPP-IV on GLP1)
2) Lipophilic: modified to be more water soluble and more easily lost in urine
Secreted hormones can be modified to become MORE ACTIVE:
1) Hydrophilic: cleaved by specific proteolytic enzymes
Angiotensinogen ——-Angiotensin I —— Angiotensin II (from liver)
2) Lipophilic: enzymes in target cells can modify structure to produce more active hormone
Hormone receptors are expressed in target tissues and upon hormone binding…
Initiate biochemical chain of events that alters cell function
Always signal transduction cascade
Hydrophilic hormones act via
receptors in target cell membrane (i.e., membrane receptors) and activate receptor-enzyme complexes, or recruit second-messenger systems to produce their physiological response
Lipophilic hormones act via
intracellular receptors that act in the cell nucleus (i.e. nuclear receptors) to induce gene transcription, producing their physiological response.
Hydrophilic hormones can use MEMBRANE RECEPTORS
that activate downstream “second messengers” pathways, e.g. cAMP
Huge amplification possible
Effect time of Lipophilic hormones
Effects are generally slower onset, longer lasting than effects via membrane receptors (hydro)
Lipophilic hormones use intracellular (nuclear) receptors to regulate specific gene transcription
Hypothalamus
site in our CNS that collects and integrates
information from different inputs
Pituitary
‘master’ endocrine gland that controls many of the endocrine systems in our body
Glandular portion of pituitary gland
hormones of the ANTERIOR pituitary are produced in the pituitary, in response to hypothalamic releasing and inhibiting hormones.
Posterior pituitary
neural portion– hormones of the posterior pituitary are synthesized in the hypothalamus and stored in vesicles in the pituitary where they are released into circulation
Hormones of posterior pituitary released in response to
neural input from the hypothalamus
Travel down axons
Release vasopressin and oxytocin into systemic blood
Oxytocin and pair bonding
Oxytocin influences pair-bonding and parent-offspring bonding
• Giving a female prairie vole oxytocin causes her to stay with her mate, and to bond with her offspring.
Tropic hormones of anterior pituitary controlled by
hypothalamic releasing or inhibiting hormones
Neurosecretory neurons in hypothalamus secrete releasing and inhibiting hormones into portal system
Endocrine cells of anterior pituitary secrete anterior pituitary hormones into systemic blood
Variations in neuro hormone release
Release of neurosecretory hormones from the hypothalamus in the median eminence (anterior pituitary) or directly in the systemic circulation (posterior pituitary)
Release of anterior pituitary hormones (most are trophic) directly in the systemic circulation
Tropic hormones
-Regulate hormone secretion by another endocrine gland
-Stimulate and maintain their endocrine gland target tissues
Is prolactin a trophic hormone
NOT trophic
No downstream signaling
Growth hormone (GH)
Regulator of somatic cell growth and metabolism
Metabolic effects of growth hormone
Adaptation to fasting during sleep
Incr Glucose production by liver
Incr Fatty acid breakdown (Adipocyte)
Incr Amino acid uptake, protein synthesis (Skeletal muscle)
Decr Protein turnover (Skeletal muscle)