Unit A2 - [not complete - missing short term stress]Endocrine System Flashcards
What are horomones?
Chemical messengers carried by the cirulatory system.
What are endocrine glands?
Ductless glands that produce and release chemicals into bloodstream
What is a non target/target hormone ?
Non-Target - affects many cells
Target - site specific
what are Tropic/Non-Tropic hormones
Tropic - Simulate other endocrine glands
Non-Tropic -Stimulate tissues
What are Steriod Hormones? what makes them special?
Hormones derived from cholesterol
fat soluble and pass through nuclear membranes easily
Combine with receptors to activate genes quickly
What are protein hormones? what makes them special?
Hormones derived from proteins and amino acids
Water soluble, too big to pass through membranes of target cells and target receptors on the cell membrane
What are Antagonistic Hormones?
Horomones that have opposing effects.
insulin and glucagon
What are the hormones that the hypothalamus produce?
Oxytocin and ADH
What are the horomones the pituitary gland produces?
G - HGH
O - Oxytocin
A - ADH
T - TSH
F - FSH
L - LH
A - ACTH
P - PRL
GOAT FLAP
What is thyroid stimulating hormone?
Released through the pituitary gland → stimulates the thyroid gland to release thyroxin.
What do you need to label in the endocrine system? (7)
Hypothalamus
Pituitary gland
Thyroid gland
Parathyroid gland
adrenal gland
pancreas
ovary/tesitis
What is the pathway for ADH?
Situation, transmition & result
Dehydration → Hypothalamus → Pituitary gland → Anti diuretic horomone → Kidney → ↑ Water retention
Where does the negitive feedback loop go for ADH
↑ Water and blood pressure → less production at the Hypothalamus and the pituitary.
What are the causes and symptoms of diabetes incipidus?
Hyposecretion of ADH → increase peeing frequency and volume
What is the pathway for thyroxine?
↓ Metabolic rate → hypothalaus → pituitary gland → Thyroid stimulating hormone → thyroid → Thyroxine → body cells → ↑ metabolic rate & ↓ BG
What is the negitive feedback for thyroxine?
high levels of thyroxine → pituitary & hypothalamus to shut of horomone production
What are the symptoms of Hyperthyroidism?
- nervous and irritable
- ↑ body temp
- eyes buldge
- diarrhea
- weight loss
What are the symptoms of hypothyrodism?
- ↓ energy
- weight gain
- ↓ body temp
- constipation
What are the symptoms or Goitre? what causes it?
- Enlarged thyroid
- little thyroxine can be produced
- ↑ Thyroid stimulating horomone
Caused form a lack of iodine in diet that is needed to produce thyrroid hormones
What is the pathway for Calcitonin
↑ Blood Ca → Thyroid Gland → Calcitonin → Bones (Ca added) → Kidney/small intestine (↓ Ca reabsorbed) → ↓ blood Ca
What is the pathway for Parathyroid hormone?
↓ Blood Ca → Parathyroid Gland → Parathyroid horomone → Bones (Ca removed) → Kidney/small intestine (↑ Ca reabsorbed) → ↑ blood Ca
Where are the horomones that are produced in the pancreas found?
Islets of Langerhans
Which horomones do alpha and beta cells produce?
Alpha - Gucagon
Beta - Insulin
What is the pathway for insulin
↑ Blood glucose (hyperglycemia) → Pancreas (Islets of Langerhans) → Insulin → ↑ Glucose permeability into cells (Glucose converts into glycogen) → ↓ blood glucose