Hormones

Question 1

What 6 hormones does the anterior pituitary gland secrete?

Answer 1

Prolactin, thyrotropin, adrenocorticotropin, growth hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone

Question 2

What hormones does the posterior pituitary gland secrete?

Answer 2

Vasopressin and oxytocin

Question 3

What is a trophic hormone?

Answer 3

Controls secretion of another hormone

Question 4

What neurons in the hypothalamus make vasopressin and oxytocin?

Answer 4

Paraventricular nuclei

Question 5

What does vasopressin do?

Answer 5

Regulate water balance

Question 6

What does oxytocin do?

Answer 6

Contraction of uterus and ejection of milk

Question 7

Thyroid hormone release pathway

Answer 7

Thyrotropin release hormone, thyroid stimulating hormone, thyroid gland, thyroid hormones

Question 8

What neurotransmitter inhibits prolactin release?

Answer 8

Dopamine

Question 9

What does prolactin do?

Answer 9

Milk production, regulate immune system,

Question 10

What releases prolactin?

Answer 10

Thyrotropin releasing hormone

Question 11

Cortisol release pathway

Answer 11

Corticotropin releasing hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenal cortex, cortisol

Question 12

What inhibits the release of growth hormone?

Answer 12

Somatostatin

Question 13

Androgen and estrogen release pathway

Answer 13

Gonadotropin releasing hormone, FSH/LH, gonadotropin, endocrine cells of gonads, androgens/estrogens

Question 14

What is synergism?

Answer 14

Interaction between two hormones yield greater effect

Question 15

Permissive interaction between hormones

Answer 15

Hormone allows another hormone to exert its full effect

Question 16

Antagonistic hormones

Answer 16

Work against each other

Question 17

what is cortisol?

Answer 17

regulates physiological endpoints in response to stress and concentration of blood

Question 18

what is a physiological endpoint?

Answer 18

a point in which levels are constant

Question 19

Where are steroid hormones made?

Answer 19

synthesized from cholesterol in the smooth ER

Question 20

Where are peptide hormones made?

Answer 20

Rough ER

Question 21

What kind of hormones have a carrier?

Answer 21

Steroids

Question 22

What’s the timing of effect for peptide hormones?

Answer 22

Short and fast

Question 23

What’s the timing of effect for steroid hormones?

Answer 23

Long and slow

Question 24

What do peptide hormones aim to do?

Answer 24

modify enzyme activity

Question 25

Which peptide hormone modulates transcription?

Answer 25

Thyroid Hormone

Question 26

Where are peptide hormones modified?

Answer 26

Golgi

Question 27

What type of signaling do peptide hormones initiate?

Answer 27

Signal Amplification

Question 28

What atom is associated with Thyroid Hormone?

Answer 28

Iodine

Question 29

What amino acid makes Thyroid Hormone?

Answer 29

Tyrosine

Question 30

What does Thyroid Hormone do?

Answer 30

increases metabolic rate and temperature. Generates growth in children

Question 31

What environmental condition increases the release of Thyroid Hormone?

Answer 31

cold temperature

Question 32

What hormone causes release of cortisol?

Answer 32

ACTH

Question 33

What does growth hormone do?

Answer 33

increase bone and muscle growth. increase cell turnover

Question 34

From the anterior pituitary, which hormones are tropic?

Answer 34

TSH and ACTH

Question 35

From the anterior pituitary, which hormones are gonadotropic?

Answer 35

LH and FSH

Question 36

Are most hormones in the body peptides or steroids?

Answer 36

peptides

Question 37

What is the function of calcitonin?

Answer 37

decrease calcium by depositioning it in the bone or kidney

Question 38

What hormone does the Parathyroid Gland release?

Answer 38

Parathyroid Hormone

Question 39

What is the function of Parathyroid Hormone?

Answer 39

raises Calcium level

Question 40

What hormone found in children increases T Cell Development?

Answer 40

Thymosin

Question 41

What hormone is released from the adrenal medulla?

Answer 41

Epinephrine

Question 42

What type of hormone is epinephrine?

Answer 42

Modfied Amino Acid. Tyrosine Derivative

Question 43

Where does insulin come from?

Answer 43

Beta Cells in the Pancreas

Question 44

Where does glucagon come from?

Answer 44

Alpha Cells in the pancreas

Question 45

What does Somatostatin do?

Answer 45

Inhibit digestive processes

Question 46

Testosterone is what kind of hormone?

Answer 46

Lipid

Question 47

The ovaries and placenta secrete which hormones?

Answer 47

Estrogen and Progesterone

Question 48

What peptide hormone comes from the heart?

Answer 48

Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF)

Question 49

What is the function of ANF?

Answer 49

Increase in urination and decrease blood pressure

Question 50

What hormone does the kidney secrete?

Answer 50

Erythropoietin

Question 51

What is the function of Erythropoietin?

Answer 51

increase RBC synthesis