Test #3 Flashcards
The hypothalamus produces what?
Oxytocin
Growth of the ovarian follicle occurs because of
FSH
The posterior pituitary gland serves as a storage and releases site for…
Anti diuretic and oxytocin
Parathyroid hormones do what?
Helps regulate calcium in the body
What depends on maintaining normal levels of calcium in the blood?
Blood clotting
Cell membrane permeability
Neuromuscular excitability
The adrenal medulla secretes
Epinephrine
What is the function of glucagon
Tends to increase blood glucose concentrations
What is the function of insulin?
Tends to lower blood concentration of glucose, amino acids and fatty acids
Promotes, metabolism of glucose by tissue cells
Is produced by beta cells
The major hormone produced by the corpus luteum is
Progesterone
Human chorionic gonadotropin is produced by the
Placenta
Thymosin is a hormone that plays a role in
Immunity
What hormone contains four atoms of iodine
Thyroxine
The pineal gland secretes
Melatonin
This hormone stimulates other endocrine glands to grow or secrete their hormone
Tropic hormone
These have receptor sites for specific hormone
Target cells
Hormones that move into the cells and bind with receptors In the nucleus
Steroid hormone
Hormones that require second messenger to cause a response in the cells
Non steroid hormone
These act as “ local hormones”
Prostaglandin
Secreted by the corpus luteum
Progesterone
Stimulates the release of glucocorticoids and mineralcorticoids
Anderncorticotropic hormone
Promotes growth
Somatotropin
Stimulates development of ovarian follicle
Follicle stimulating hormone
Causes water retention
Antidiuretic hormone
Causes muscle contraction of the uterus
Oxytocin
Stimulates the secretion of milk from the breast
Lactogenic hormone
Calcium regulating hormone that is made in the thyroid gland
Calcitonin
The only important mineralocorticoid hormone in humans
Aldosterone
Hormone that is produced by the alpha cells of the pancrease
Glucagon
Hormones that contains either three or four iodine atoms
Thyroid hormone
Hormones that cause an increase in blood calcium levels
Parathyroid hormone
Hormones that lower the concentration of glucose in blood
Insulin
Hormones that is made by fetal tissue component of the placenta
Human chorionic gonadotropin
Hormone that is chief glucocorticoid released by the adrenal gland
Cortisol
Which of the following is not one of the main chemical classes of neurotransmitters? Triglycerides Amines Amino acids Neuropeptides
Triglycerides
Serotonin is an example of an ….
Amine neurotransmitter
A lack of this/ these neurotransmitters in the basal ganglia is/are associated with Parkinson’s disease
Dopamine
Interneurons reside in the
CNS only
White matter of the CNS consists of
Myelinated nerve fibres
Astrocytes attach to
Neurons and blood vessels
One of the components of the blood brain barrier is
Astrocytes
What statement does not apply to ependymal cells?
They form the sheets of cells that line fluid filled cavities in the brain
They make up part of the blood brain barrier
They produce fluid that fills the cavities in the brain
They have cilia to move fluid in the brain
They make up the blood brain barrier
The fastest nerve fibres in the body can conduct an impulse that is how much faster than the slowest fibres in the body
Almost 300 times faster
Preparing the body for flight or fight describes the function of the
Sympathetic NS
Have the capability of phagocytes
Microgila
Help form the blood brain barrier
Astrocytes
Type of neuroglia that forms neurilemma
Schwann cell
Resemble epithelial cells and line fluid filled cavities in the brain and spinal cord
Ependymal cells
Produce the myelin sheath around nerve fibres in the CNS
Oligodendrocytes
Consists of the brain and spinal cord
CNS
Consists of nerves that lie periphery of the nervous system
PNS
Consists of all incoming sensory pathways
Afferent division
Fight or flight response
Sympathetic division
Subdivision that carries info from the CNS to skeletal muscle
Somatic nervous system
Subdivision of the efferent division that transmits info to smooth muscle , cardiac muscle and glands
Autonomic nervous system
Consists of all outgoing motor pathways
Efferent division
Sometimes called the rest and repair division
Parasympathetic division
Dendrites carry impulses to this structure and axons carry impulses away from this structure
Cell body
Typically this is a branching part of the neuron
Dendrite
These neurones have one axon and one highly branched dendrite
Bipolar neuron
There neurones have one axon but many dendrites
Multipolar neuron
Single long extension of a neuron
Axon
These are at the end of the neuron and contain vesicles that contain neurotransmitters
Synaptic knob
Axons usually extend from this tapered portion of the cell body
Hillock
Type of synapse that occur when two cells are joined by a gap junction
Electrical synapse
Space between the presynaptic and postsynaptic cells
Synaptic cleft
Tiny bulge at the end of a presynaptic cleft
Synaptic knob