Hormones

Question 0

3 functions growth hormone

Answer 0

metabolism most organs
Growth/division bone/muscle
Stimulates IGFS

Question 1

GH also known as

Answer 1

Somatotropin (growth hormone)

Question 2

When do we make more somatotropin? (5)

Answer 2

Sleep night
Hypoglycaemia 
Exercise 
Anxiety
Childhood/adolescence

Question 3

Function of thyroid stimulating hormone

Answer 3

Produces thyroxine (t4) (tiny t3)

Question 4

How do we get MOST of our T3?

Answer 4

Converted by body from T4

Question 5

When is thyroid stimulating hormone lowest/highest

Answer 5

Lowest early evening

Highest at night

Question 6

What is thyroxin made of and why does that limit its efficacy

Answer 6

T4

Assumes body able to convert to T3

Question 7

What is t4 long word

Answer 7

Thyroxine

Question 8

What is t3 long word

Answer 8

Tri-iodothyronine

Question 9

Suspected low thyroid function

GPs warning number v ours?

Answer 9

10

Ours 2!

Question 10

If suspected low thyroid why would we run antibody test as well as blood

Answer 10

Increasingly auto immune - hashimotos

Question 11

What do we need to convert t4 to t3?

Answer 11

Lots of different co-factors

Question 12

What is t4 long word

Answer 12

Thyroxine

Question 13

What is t3 long word

Answer 13

Tri-iodothyronine

Question 14

Suspected low thyroid function

GPs warning number v ours?

Answer 14

10

Ours 2!

Question 15

If suspected low thyroid why would we run antibody test as well as blood

Answer 15

Increasingly auto immune - hashimotos

Question 16

What do we need to convert t4 to t3?

Answer 16

Lots of different co-factors

Question 17

other name for growth hormone releasing inhibiting hormone

Answer 17

somatostatin

Question 18

too much GH conditions

Answer 18

gigantism, acromegaly

Question 19

Growth hormone increased by what from hypothalamus

Answer 19

growth hormone releasing hormone

Question 20

growth hormone decreased by what from the hypothalamus

Answer 20

growth hormone releasing inhibiting hormone

Question 21

GH target

Answer 21

bones & all tissues

Question 22

Thyroid stimulating hormone stimulated by

Answer 22

thyroid releasing hormone

Question 23

thyroid stimulating hormone inhibited by

Answer 23

growth hormone releasing inhibiting hormone

Question 24

target tissue thyroid stimulating hormone

Answer 24

thyroid gland

Question 25

too much TSH could indicate

Answer 25

Hypothyroidism

Question 26

too little TSH could indicate

Answer 26

Hyperthyroidism

Question 27

ACTH stimulated by

Answer 27

Corticotropin releasing hormone

Question 28

ACTH inhibited by

Answer 28

high levels ACTH in blood

Question 29

target tissue ACTH

Answer 29

Adrenal cortex (releases cortisol)

Question 30

what does ACTH cause the adrenal cortex to release

Answer 30

cortisol

also triggers release of adrenaline, noradrenaline

Question 31

apart from corticotropin releasing hormone what also stimulates the release of adrenocorticotropic hormone

Answer 31

stress, exercise, interleukin 1

Question 32

Prolactin stimulated by

Answer 32

prolactin releasing hormone (and others)

Question 33

prolactin inhibited by

Answer 33

dopamine from brain (and others)

Question 34

prolactin’s effect on body

Answer 34

stimuates lactation
prevents pregnancy during lactation
breast maturation after childbirth

Question 35

production prolactin -

Answer 35

after birth, suckling\sleep, emotional stress

Question 36

too much prolactin

Answer 36

hyperprolactinaemia

Question 37

too little prolactin

Answer 37

hypoprolactinaemia

Question 38

difference between somatotropin and somatostatin

Answer 38

somatotropin - GH

somatostatin - GHIH