L14 Hypothalamus And Pituitary Flashcards
What hormones are released from the anterior pituitary?
Adrenocorticotropic hormone ACTH
Growth Hormone GH
Thyroid stimulating hormone TSH
Prolactin PRL
Luteinizing hormone LH
Follicle stimulating hormone FSH
What hormones are released from the posterior pituitary?
Oxytocin OT
Arginine vasopressin AVP aka Antidiuretic hormone ADH
What is another name for antidiruetic hormone ADH?
Arginine vasopressin AVP
What are magnocellular neurons?
Large neurons that originate in the hypothalamus that project into the posterior pituitary, where they release their hormones into a capillary bed
(The hormones that are produced by the magnocellular neurons are the final product that get released into the blood!)
Where exactly in the hypothalamus do the magnocellular neurons originate?
Paraventricular nuclei
Supraoptic nuclei
What hormones are released from the magnocellular neurons?
Oxytocin
AVP aka ADH
NP (Neurophysin)
What are the parvicellular neurons?
Neurons that originate in the hypothalamus and extend to a capillary bed in the Median Eminence and release Hypothalamic hormones (releasing or inhibitory)
These hormones then travel down blood vessels into the anterior pituitary where they cause the anterior pituitary to release trophic hormones
What hormones are released into the anterior pituitary by parvicellular neurons?
CRH
TRH
GnRH
GHRH
SS (Somatostatin)
DA (dopamine)
What hormones are released by the anterior pituitary into the systemic circulation?
ACTH
TSH
LH/FSH
GH
PRL
GHRH causes the release of what hormone from the anterior pituitary?
GH
TRH causes the release of what hormones from the anterior pituitary?
TSH
Prolactin
What effect does somatostatin have on the anterior pituitary?
It INHIBITS the synthesis of GH and TSH
GnRH causes the release of what hormones from the anterior pituitary?
LH
FSH
CRH causes the release of what hormone from the anterior pituitary?
ACTH
PRF (prolactin releasing Factor) causes the release of what hormone from the anterior pituitary?
Prolactin lol
What effect does Dopamine have on the anterior pituitary?
It INHIBITS prolactin synthesis
Where are ADH and Oxytocin synthesized?
In the cell bodies of the magnocellular neurons
Which are located in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei
What is the half life of ADH and Oxytocin?
Short, about 8 min
ADH and Oxytocin are (steroid/peptide/amine) hormones
Peptides
Which means that when they are synthesized, they start as preprohormones that then get cleaved into prohormones (in the ER) and then get converted to hormones (in the Golgi)
What do neurophysins (NP) do?
Bind to ADH or Oxytocin and prevent them from leaving the axon of the neuron before it’s ready to be released
Where do neurophysins (NP) come from?
They are released when the precursor hormone is cleaved into ADH or oxytocin
There are two kinds of neurophysins: NP-I and NP-II. Which one binds to ADH and which one binds to Oxytocin?
NP-I binds to oxytocin
NP-II binds to ADH
As the precursor hormone travels down the hypothalamic-hypophyseal tract (axon of the magnocellular neuron) it gets cleaved into these three things:
- ADH or Oxytocin
- Nurophysin (NP)
- A terminal glycoprotein
Central diabetes insipidus happens when there’s not enough ADH reaching the kidney. Why doesn’t the ADH reach the kidney?
The neurophysin (NP-II) that binds to ADH and keeps it from diffusing out of the axon prematurely is defective. ADH never reaches the circulation