Hormones Flashcards

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Where are steroid hormones produced?

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Adrenal cortex ovaries and testes

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Flat pig means what

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FSH, LH, ACTH, TSH, Prolactin, Growth hormone in the anterior pituitary

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FSH

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Important for sertoli cells and so ovary/ follicle development, spermatogenesis

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LH

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Interstitial cells so produce testosterone and ovary and ovulation

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ACTH

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Adrenocorticotropic hormone is increasing cortisol from adrenal cortex, also increased growth

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TSH

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So it increases the synthesis and release of thyroid hormone

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Prolactin

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Goes to mammary gland to make milk

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Growth hormone

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Increases muscle growth and increased cell turn over rate

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What happens in thyroid

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Well TSH activates thyroid hormone from tyrosine with iodine and it can also be called thyroxin also it works like a steroid. Also it increases metabolism and heat and growth and development in kids

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Thyroid c cells

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Make calcitonin which decrease intercellular calcium works in kidney as well

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Other

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From the parathyroid acts on bone kidney and small intestine opposite of calcitonin

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Thymus

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Makes T cells which do autochrome with interleukin 2 mostly in kids

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Adrenal medulla

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Is epinephrine which is done from symp system it’s a stress response

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Adrenal cortex

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Anything from here is a steroid so cortisol and aldosterone and sex steroids

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Cortisol

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longer term stress response increase blood glucose in order to increase energy and protein catabolism and decrease inflammation with immunity

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Aldosterone

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Works on kidney to increase sodium reabsorption which is good for water to come too which causes more blood pressure

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Pancreas

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They are also endocrine pancreas from islets of langerhans

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Insulin

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Beta cells and are gone in dm. Decreases glucose in blood which is opposite from cortisol and increase glycgen and fat storage

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Glucagon

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An alpha cells which increase blood glucose, like cortisol, and decrease glycogen and fat storage

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Somatostasin

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It’s abbreviated as SS and it’s from sigma cells. This will stop digestive enzymes

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Testosterone

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Male spermatogensis

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Estrogen

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Female characteristics endometrial growth

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Progesterone

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Endometrial secretion and pregnancy

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The heart releases what

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Atrial natriuretic hormone. Goes to kidney to increase urination and decrease blood pressure essentially opposite of aldosterone. Probably piss out sodium

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What’s the only hormone that is released from the kidney

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Erythropoietin to go to bone to make red blood cells