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  1. What is homeostasis? (slide 4)
    1. The ability to control body temperature
    2. The ability to maintain internal pH
    3. The ability to maintain a constant internal environment
    4. The ability to control heart rate
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  1. The ability to maintain a constant internal environment
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  1. What is autoregulation? (slide 5)
    1. Cells communicating between each other to regulate themselves
    2. Tissues controlled by the endocrine system
    3. Cells and tissues controlled by the nervous system
    4. Cells, tissues and organs regulating themselves automatically and independently
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d. Cells, tissues and organs regulating themselves automatically and independently

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  1. Extrinsic regulation is imposed principally by the: (slide 5)
    1. Endocrine system
    2. Nervous system
    3. Endocrine system and nervous system
    4. Gastrointestinal system
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c. Endocrine system and nervous system

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  1. Which system performs ‘crisis management’? (slide 6)
    1. The nervous system
    2. The endocrine system
    3. The hormonal system
    4. The adrenaline system
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a. The nervous system

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  1. The endocrine system regulates (slide 6)
    1. Short term effects
    2. Long term ongoing metabolic state
    3. Short term metabolic state
    4. Long term growth patterns
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b. Long term ongoing metabolic state

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  1. What are the components of the endocrine system? (slide 7)
    1. Endocrine glands, hormones, and receptors
    2. Endocrine glands, lymph glands and hormones
    3. Hormones, target organs, thyroid gland
    4. Hormones, lymph and blood
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a. Endocrine glands, hormones, and receptors

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  1. Most hormone producing cells are types of tissue (slide 8)
    1. Epithelial
    2. Muscular
    3. Connective
    4. Nervous
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a. Epithelial

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  1. In the classical concept of hormones, hormones are sometimes called (slide 10)
    1. Chemical interceptors
    2. Neural messengers
    3. Chemical messengers
    4. Intrinsic messengers
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c. Chemical messengers

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  1. What are the four steps that hormones undergo (slide 10):
    1. Secretion, transport, synthesis, action
    2. Synthesis, secretion, transport, action
    3. Synthesis, transport, secretion, action
    4. Secretion, action, transport, synthesis
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b. Synthesis, secretion, transport, action

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  1. When hormones act, they act on what? (slide 10)
    1. Host cells
    2. Mast cells
    3. Target cells
    4. Schwann cells
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c. Target cells

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  1. More recent findings, have discussed local hormones. Where are these produced? (slide 11)
    1. Endocrine glands
    2. Global endocrine cells
    3. Isolated endocrine cells
    4. Epithelial endocrine cells
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c. Isolated endocrine cells

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  1. These local hormones are known as: (slide 11)
    1. Paranoid hormones
    2. Paracrine hormones
    3. Parascend hormones
    4. Parathyroid hormones
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b. Paracrine hormones

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  1. Which of the following is not a class of hormone? (Slide 12)
    1. Amine
    2. Peptide/protein
    3. Lipid derivative
    4. Adrenaline
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d. Adrenaline

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  1. Steroid hormones are produced from: (slide 13)
    1. Amino acids
    2. Cholesterol
    3. Glycerol
    4. Glycogen
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b. Cholesterol

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  1. Hormones bond to what on the cell surface or cell cytoplasm? (slide 14)
    1. Protein receptors
    2. Carbohydrate receptors
    3. Lipid receptors?
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a. Protein receptors

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  1. Each hormone receptor can receive different types of hormone (side 14)
    1. True
    2. False
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b. False

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  1. Which of the following hormones cross the cell membrane and bind to receptors in the cytoplasm or nucleus? (slide 15)
    1. Catecholamine, peptide, eicosanoids
    2. Thyroid, peptide
    3. Catecholamine, steroid
    4. Thyroid, steroid
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d. Thyroid, steroid

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  1. The hormones released by the pituitary gland bind to what types of receptor? (slide 18)
    1. Cell membrane
    2. Cytoplasm
    3. Nuclear
    4. None of the above
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a. Cell membrane

19
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  1. The pituitary gland used to be called the what endocrine gland? (slide 18
    1. Minor endocrine gland
    2. Effector endocrine gland
    3. Master endocrine gland
    4. Global endocrine gland
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c. Master endocrine gland

20
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  1. The pituitary is divided into: (slide 19)
    1. 3 lobes
    2. Anterior/posterior lobes
    3. Left/right lobes
    4. Superior/inferior lobes
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b. Anterior/posterior lobes

21
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  1. The pituitary is located directly under the ? (slide 19)
    1. Hypothalamus
    2. Medulla oblongata
    3. Adrenal glands
    4. Thymus
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a. Hypothalamus

22
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  1. Which of the following is not produced by the anterior pituitary? (slide 20)
    1. TSH
    2. ACTH
    3. GH
    4. ADH
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d. ADH

23
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  1. Oxytocin is produced in which gland? (slide 23)
    1. Anterior pituitary
    2. Hypothalamus
    3. Posterior pituitary
    4. Adrenal glands
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c. Posterior pituitary

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  1. ADH: (slide 23)
    1. Depresses blood pressure
    2. Increases the amount of water excreted
    3. Decreases the amount of water excreted
    4. Stimulates smooth muscle in uterus and mammary glands
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c. Decreases the amount of water excreted

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  1. What do the alpha cells in the pancreas secrete? (slide 24)
    1. Insulin
    2. Glucagon
    3. Erythropoietin
    4. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone
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  1. Glucagon
26
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  1. What is the effect of insulin? (slide 27)
    1. Lowers blood glucose
    2. Raises blood glucose
    3. Lowers blood glycogen
    4. Raises blood glycogen
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a. Lowers blood glucose

27
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  1. What is the effect of glucagon? (slide 27)
    1. Lowers blood glucose
    2. Raises blood glucose
    3. Lowers blood glycogen
    4. Raises blood glycogen
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b. Raises blood glucose

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  1. What is the role of erythropoiten? (slide 30)
    1. Simulates oxygen uptake by red blood cells
    2. Stimulates red blood cell production
    3. Stimulates white blood cell production
    4. Promotes Bohr shift in haemoglobin
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b. Stimulates red blood cell production

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  1. What hormones does adipose tissue secrete? (slide 32)
    1. Leptin
    2. Insulin
    3. Glucagon
    4. ACTH
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a. Leptin

30
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  1. During resistance training what happens to insulin? (slide 41)
    1. More is released
    2. Less is released
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b. Less is released

31
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  1. Which hormone is thought to be catabolic during endurance exercise? (slide 41)
    1. Insulin
    2. Cortisol
    3. Glucagon
    4. Growth hormone
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b. Cortisol

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