HES 111 MIDTERM 1 Flashcards
What are the two main classes of hormones?
Amino acid based and Lipid based.
What are the two hormone types Amino acid based hormones can be broken up into?
Amine hormones and Peptide hormones.
What kind of hormone can a lipid hormone further be divided into
Steroid hormone.
What are three ways these hormones behave differently
They travel differently in the blood, they respond differently to how their target cells recognize and receive them and they have different half lives.
Are Amino acid based hormones hydrophobic or hydrophilic and are they big or small?
Usually large and hydrophilic
How to amino acid based hormones bind?
They bind to a receptor on the plasma membrane of their target cells
Are steroid hormones hydrophilic or hydrophobic?
Hydrophobic
How do steroid hormones bind to receptors?
Bind to receptors in the cytosol or even within the nucleus of their target cell.
Hormones circulate in the blood until what 2 things happen?
They are taken up by their target cell or broken down (metabolized)
The rate of which hormones are broken down depends on…
Their structure and whether they are bound to carrier proteins.
What is half life?
The amount of time it takes for concentration of hormone to reduce by half in the blood.
Do hydrophobic hormones have long or short half life? About how long and why do they have this amount of half life.
They have the longest half life. Usually minutes to hours. They are bound to carrier proteins in the blood.
Do hydrophilic hormones have long or short half life? How long and why do they have this half life.
Shorter half life seconds to minutes because they are not generally bound to carrier protein.
What is the endocrine system?
A series of organs throughout the body that secrete hormones in response to a stimulus.
What is a neuroendocrine organ and what are some common ones?
A hybrid between nervous system and endocrine system. Some examples are the pineal gland, and hypothalamus.
What is the difference between a hormone and a neurotransmitter?
Hormones travel in the blood andb are secreted by an endocrine cell—- Endocrine cell, blood, target cell.
Neurotransmitters travel across the synaptic cleft— Synaptic cleft, target cell.
What is a neurohormone?
Secreted by a neuron and travels in the blood.
What produces its own hormones for secretion from the posterior pituitary and also directs secretion of other hormones from the anterior pituitary
The hypothalamus
What is the pituitary gland seperated into?
Anterior and posterior pituitary
What 2 hormones are secreted by the hypothalamus in the posterior pituitary
Anti Diuretic Hormone and oxytocin
What does ADH do?
Water reabsorption back into the blood
What does oxytocin do?
Uterine contraction and milk release.
What is a tropic hormone?
A hormone that triggers the release of another hormone
What does the anterior pituitary gland secrete
Many tropic hormones.
What is the main function of the growth hormone?
Regulate growth of target tissues?
What are the short term effects of the growth hormone
Fat breakdown, inhibit glucose uptake in skeletal muscle
What is the goal in the short term effects of the growth hormone
Make glucose and fatty acids available for use for fuel.
What are the long term effects of the growth hormone and what does the growth hormone release during long term effects
Protein synthesis, cell division, increased glucose uptake by cells.
Secretes Insulin like growth factor
What does the thyroid gland do?
Regulates metabolism, Regulates body temperature, sets the basal metabolic rate
What does the thyroid gland produce and secrete
calcatonin
What hormone is secreted in response to low blood calcium
Parathyroid hormone.
What are the effects when there is an increase in blood calcium levels
stimulates osteoclasts, increases the absorption of calcium by small intestine and increase reabsorption of calcium in the kidneys.
What two neurohormones does the adrenal medulla secrete
epinepherine and norepinepherine.
What steroid hormone does the adrenal cortex release
aldosterone
why is aldosterone important
Important for regulation of fluid electrolyte and pH balance in the blood
What does cortisol do?
promotes catabolic reactions in order to provide fuel for stress.
Pancreatic islets which are little islands of cells consist of what kind of cells
alpha beta and delta cells
What type of cells is insulin produced and secreted by?
beta cells
When is insulin released
secreted in a response to increase blood glucose
what type of cells is glucagon produced and secreted by?
alpha cells
When would glucagon be secreated?
In response to decrease blood glucose
What is the fibrous pericardium
The outer layer of connective tissue
What is the serous pericardium
inner membrane that folds under itself to form 2 layers.