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Rest Of Hormones Flashcards

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1
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What sysnthesizes insulin in the body?

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Beta cells of the pancreas

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What is the function of insulin?

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Insulin lowers blood sugar by bringing glucose into the cells, stimulating glycogenesis, and equalky inhibits protein and fat breakdown

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How does insulin bring glsucose into the cell?

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By means of changing the membrane characteristics when bound ti a cellular receptor

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What is tye only homrone in the human body that reduces bloos sugar?

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Insulin

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How is insulin regulated?

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By serum blood glucose.

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Insulin is released in

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Hyperglycemic states or in the presence if glucagon or gastrin

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Insukin is inhibted in

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Hypoglycemic states or some therapeutic drugs

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8
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What tyoe of hormone is leptin?

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Glycoprotein hormone

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9
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What tyoe of hormone is insulin?

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Protein hormone

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10
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What hormone balances appetite and energy?

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Leptin

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11
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Leptin is synthesized in the body by

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White adipocytes (fat cells)

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Lewhat are white adipocytes?

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These are cells of fat tissue (white adipose tissue)

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13
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This tissue’s cells produce leptin

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White Adipose tissue

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14
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Leptin is released when stimulated by certain factors produced in the

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Brain

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15
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List the functions of leptin

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Targets the hypothalamus 
Sateity hormone
Inhibits appetite
Stimulates metabolism
Induces production of TNF and cell-death protein
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16
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Melatonin is produced by what tissue in the body?

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Pineal gland of the brain

17
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Leptin and ,elatonin are hormones that target the

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Hypothalamus

18
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What are the functions of melatonin?

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Induces sleep, decreases attentive state, used as sleeping aid
Imhibits secretion of gonadotropins from pituitary
Decease cortisol levels

19
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Why are cortisol levels decreased at night?

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Because at night, melatoninnlevels rise tomake us sleep

20
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Release of melatonin is induced by

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Darkness

21
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Release if melatonin is inhibuted by

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Light

22
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What direct connection in two areas regukate melatonin?

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Direct connection between the retina and pineal gland

23
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Human chorionic gonadotropin is released by

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The chorion and placenta

24
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The outer memebrane surrounding a developing embryo is called the

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Chorion

25
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What are the functions of hCG?

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Stimulates and maintains progesterone production by the corpus luteum until placenta forms, stimulates development of fetal gonads.

26
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Thisnhormone stimulates and sustains progesterone production by the corpus luteum until placenta forms

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hCG

27
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What are the clinical uses of hCG?

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  • Determine pregnancy
  • Predict abortion/miscarriage
  • Can detect multiple embryos
  • DetecthCG producing tumors
28
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When is hCG synthesized by the chorion?

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1-2 days after fertilized egg implants into the endometrium

29
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The human placental lactogen is synthesized by the

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Placenta

30
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What are the functions of HPL?

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  • Works with hCG to stimulate progesterone production by CL
  • Anti-isulin, by raising blood sugar to ensure fetal nutruition/metabolism needs are met
  • Stimulates development of mammary glands and lactation in third trimester
31
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Why are pregnant women susceptible to diabetes?

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Because the human placental hormone increases blood sugar so that fetal nutrition and metabolism needs are met

32
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What are the clinical uses of HPL?

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Monitor placental function during pregnancy with maternal hypertension
Monitor intrauterine fetal growth

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