Neuroendocrine

Question 1

What connects the superior and inferior hypophysial arteries?

Answer 1

The trabecular artery

Question 2

What is the adenohypophesis derived from?

Answer 2

Rathke’s pouch

Question 3

What are the three subdivisions of the adenohyphesis?

Answer 3

the pars distalis, the pars tuberalis, and the pars intermedia

Question 4

What are the subdivisions of the neurohypophesis?

Answer 4

Pars nervosa and the median eminence

Question 5

What do acidophil cells secrete?

Answer 5

Peptide hormones (Growth hormone and prolactin). They are pink

Question 6

What do basophils secrete?

Answer 6

Glycoprotein hormones (FLAT: FSH, LH, TSH, and ACTH). Think flat base. They are purple.

Question 7

What are chromophobe cells?

Answer 7

Cells that have depleted their cytoplasmic hormonal content

Question 8

How is GH release stimulated?

Answer 8

By GHRH from the hypothalamus and by high blood levels of IGF-1

Question 9

What are the three parts of the adenohypophesis?

Answer 9

Pars distalis (anterior lobe), pars tuberalis (envelops the infundibular stalk), and pars intermedia (wedge separating pars distalis from neurohypophesis)

Question 10

What are the parts of the neurohypophesis?

Answer 10

Pars nervosa (neural lobe), and the infundibulum