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Week 4 Flashcards

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What are nuclear receptors?

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A family of ligand-regulated transcription factors that are activated by steroid hormones, such as estrogen and progesterone, and various other lipid-soluble signals, including retinoic acid, oxysterols, and thyroid hormone

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How does endocrine signalling operate?

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The signaling molecules (hormones) are secreted by specialized endocrine cells and carried through the circulation to act on target cells at distant body sites

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What is the hormonal system?

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A network of glands and organs in the body that produces hormones

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How does the hormonal system work?

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When a hormone is released from a gland, it travels in the bloodstream through the body. It passes by most cells, but eventually reaches its target.

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What medical conditions relate to the hormonal system?

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Some common hormonal problems are:
- Diabetes
- Thyroid problems, such as hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism
- Cushing’s syndrome
- Some fertility problems
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

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Examples of polypeptide/protein hormones?

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  • Growth hormone
  • Vasopressin
  • Insulin
  • Glucagon
  • Parathyroid hormone
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What’s the difference between peptide hormones and protein hormones?

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Peptide hormones consist of short chains of amino acids, whereas protein hormones are longer polypeptides.

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What are lipophilic hormones?

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Lipid-soluble hormones

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What is a hormone receptor?

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A receptor molecule that binds to a specific chemical messenger.

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What is meant by nuclear receptors?

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Nuclear receptors are a family of ligand-regulated transcription factors that are activated by steroid hormones, such as estrogen and progesterone, and various other lipid-soluble signals, including retinoic acid, oxysterols, and thyroid hormone

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What do nuclear receptors sense?

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Changes in lipid metabolite levels to drive differential gene expression, producing distinct physiologic effects

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What does the allosteric binding of nuclear receptors?

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Drives the recruitment of diverse transcriptional co‐regulators at chromatin and ultimately transactivation or transrepression of target genes

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What does the dysregulation of nuclear receptors lead to?

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Various malignances, metabolic disorders, and inflammatory disease

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What ligands bind to nuclear receptors?

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lipophilic substances such as endogenous hormones, vitamins A and D, and xenobiotic hormones

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What is cortisol?

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A steroid hormone, in the glucocorticoid class of hormones.

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What does the biosynthesis of a hormone require?

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The coordinated expression of the enzymes that comprise the pathways via which specific hormones are synthesized

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What does the term ‘general mechanism of action’ mean?

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A term used to describe how a drug or other substance produces an effect in the body

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What are the different type of nuclear receptors?

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According to this classification, nuclear receptors are grouped in seven subfamilies: NR1, NR2, NR3, NR4, NR5, NR6, and NR0

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What does SRC-3 regulate?

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Not only the transcriptional activity of nuclear receptors but also many other transcription factors

20
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What does the nuclear receptor superfamily regulate?

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Gene expression in response to endocrine signalling, and recruitment of coregulators affords these receptors considerable functional flexibility.

21
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What does the interplay between the tumour microenvironment and tumour cells represent?

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A key contributor to immune evasiveness, physiological hardiness and the local and systemic invasiveness of malignant cells

22
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How many nuclear receptors do humans have?

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48 nuclear receptors, which when dysregulated are often linked to diseases

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How do estrogen receptors act?

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By regulating transcriptional processes

24
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What does it mean to be ER positive in breast cancer?

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The cells of this type of breast cancer have receptors that allow them to use the hormone estrogen to grow

25
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What does metabolic reprogramming enable?

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Cancer cells to adapt to the changing microenvironment in order to maintain metabolic energy and to provide the necessary biological macromolecules required for cell growth and tumor progression

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What are aromatase inhibitors?

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A class of drugs used in the treatment of breast cancer in postmenopausal women and in men, and gynecomastia in men

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What are SERMs?

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A class of drugs that act on the estrogen receptor.

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What is the common cause of Cushing Syndrome?

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Most cases of Cushing’s syndrome are not genetic. However, some individuals may develop Cushing’s syndrome due to an inherited tendency to develop tumors of one or more endocrine glands.

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What is the relationship between androgens and prostate cancer?

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Androgens are also necessary for prostate cancers to grow

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