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Lecture 18- Endocrine System Flashcards

1
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What do all endocrine glands have in common (or what defines an endocrine gland?

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They secrete hormones into the blood

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What is paracrine secretion?

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Hormone to a target cell

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What is autocrine secretion?

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Hormone to self

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4
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What makes up the posterior pituitary gland?

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  • infundibulum or pituitary stalk
  • pars nervosa
  • tissue develops from brain
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5
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What makes up the anterior pituitary gland?

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  • pars tuberalis
  • pars intermedia
  • pars distalis
  • tissue derived from ectoderm
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6
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What are sinusoids?

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Essentially giant capillaries

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What are degranulated cells?

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Cells that turn back into an acidophil or basophil

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What are progenitor cells?

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Cells that go on to produce other cell types

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9
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What are chromophobes?

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Either degranulated cells or progenitor cells

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10
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What are the acidophils?

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  • somatotropes (growth hormone)

- mammotropes (prolactin)

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What are the basophils?

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  • gonadotropes (FSH and LH)
  • thyrotropes (TSH)
  • corticotropes (POMC) cleaves to (ACTH)
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12
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What is the best way to differentiate these cells?

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  • immunohistochemistry
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13
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The blood supply to the median eminence, infundibulum, and anterior pituitary is a portal system? What does that mean

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Two capillary beds

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14
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What does the pars tuberalis secrete?

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mainly basophilic gonadotropes

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15
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What does the pars intermedia secrete?

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basophilic cortico tropes. POMC cleaved to melanocyte stimulating hormone. In pars distalis POMC cleaved to ACTH

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16
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What does oxytocin do?

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  • milk let down

- uterine contraction during labor

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17
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What are pituicytes?

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Glial cells that surround the unmyelinated axons

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18
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What are herring bodies?

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Cells that store the hormone

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19
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Where are the neuronal cell bodies for the posterior pituitary?

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hypothalamus

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20
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Where are the alpha cells located in the islets of langerhans?

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Along the periphery- glucagon- raises blood glucose

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Where are the beta cells located in the islets of langerhans?

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On the interior- insulin that lowers blood glucose

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22
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Where is the adrenal gland found?

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On top of the kidney, suprarenal gland

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23
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What are the three layers of the adrenal gland?

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  • capsule
  • cortex derived from mesoderm
  • medulla derived from neural crest
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What are the three layers of the cortex?

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  • zona glomerulosa
  • zona fasciculata
  • zona reticularis
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25
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They precursor to hormones produced in the adrenal cortex is cholesterol. What does this tell you?

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Lipid soluble, hydrophobic

26
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What is secreted in the zona glomerulosa?

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aldosterone

27
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What are mineralocorticoid and give an example.

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aldosterone, influence salt and water balance

28
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What does aldosterone do?

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Released from the adrenal gland under low BP to stimulate Na+ retention and for the kidney to release renin and angiotensin II

29
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What effect does aldosterone have on blood K+ levels?

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increases secretion of K+ in the collecting duct to lower blood K+

30
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What does the zona fasciuluta release?

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glucocorticoids (eg cortisol), washed out lipid droplets that contained steroids

31
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What signals the release of cortisol?

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ACTH

32
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What effect does cortisol have on the hypothalamus?

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negative feedback

33
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What effects does cortisol have on the body?

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  • immunosuppressive

- anti- inflammatory

34
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What is released in the zona reticularis?

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androgens- lipid soluble steroids, wide capillaries or sinusoids

35
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What induces the release of androgens from the adrenal gland?

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ACTH

36
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Where are chromaffin cells?

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adrenal medulla, derived from the neural crest

37
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What effect does the sympathetic pre-ganglionic neuron have on the adrenal medulla?

A

release epinephrine

38
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If the sympathetic pre-ganglionic synapses on a post ganglionic neuron, what will be secreted?

A

norepinephrine

39
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What are the main parts of the thyroid?

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  • capsule
  • septa
  • thyroid follicles
40
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What are the follicular cells?

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Simple epithelium, cuboidal or columnar

41
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What is the colloid filled lumen?

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thyroglobulin

42
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What is stored in the C cells?

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Calcitonin

43
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If the follicular cells are inactive (No TSH) they are more?

A

squamous

44
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If the follicular cells are active, they are…

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more cuboidal or columnar, thyroid hormone

45
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What are three effects of thyroid hormone?

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  • increase basal metabolic rate
  • increase lipid metabolism
  • increase in carbohydrate metabolism
46
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Which cell has secretory granules?

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C cells

47
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What effect does the caclitonin from the secretory granules have on the body?

A

inhibit osteoclasts

48
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What does thyroglobulin help store?

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Iodine in T3 and T4

49
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What stimulates the production and release of thyroid hormone from the thyroid gland?

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TSH from anterior pituitary

50
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What shuts off TSH release from the pituitary?

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Thyroid Stimulating Hormone

51
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What shuts off TSH release from the pituitary?

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Thyroid Hormone, negative feedback

52
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What would the cells look like if a test revealed elevated serum TSH levels?

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Follicular cell hyperplasia but with little colloid

53
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What cells are found in the parathyroid gland?

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  • chief cells

- oxyphil cells

54
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What do chief cells secrete?

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Parathyroid hormone, purple nuclei with pale but acidophilic cytoplasm

55
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Low blood calcium levels stimulate parathyroid hormone secretion. How does PTH raise blood Ca++ levels?

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Increases Ca++ reabsorption in the kidney tubule

56
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What does PTH do in the kidney?

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increases the synthesis of 1-ahydroxylage in the PCT of the kidney. Activates Vitamin D to enable Ca++ absorption from the gut

57
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What does the pineal gland secrete?

A

melatonin

58
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What does melatonin do?

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regulates circadian rhythm, darkness promotes the release of melatonin

59
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What is a corpora arenacea?

A

brain sand, Ca, Mg salts.

60
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What are the other cells found in the pineal gland?

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  • pinealocytes
  • astrocytes
  • corpora arenacea
  • septa
61
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Some groups recommend stopping fluoride treatment because they could possibly contribute to the calcification of what structure?

A

pineal gland

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