Hormone Actions and Regulation

What will an injection of epinephrine do?

What part of the pituitary gland has a connection with the neurons of the hypothalamus?

Which chemical type of hormone has a longer half-life?

Why is ADH also called vasopressin? Due to high concentration, what type of action?

Which hormone from the anterior pituitary regulates thyroid hormone levels?

What 3 things can regulate hormonal secretion?

Name a hormone that is made from cholesterol?

The connecting stalk between the pituitary and hypothalamus is called?

What type of chemical messenger will act on nearby cells?

What hormone would decrease if you had increased plasma levels of cortisol?

T3 and T4 are stored in the parafollicular as which molecule?

You have a distance runner that twisted their ankle but continued the run, what was the hormone secreted to subdue the perception of pain?

What hormone would inhibit the secretion of growth hormone?

What can stimulate oxytocin release?

If there is a decrease in blood volume that would be released in what type of situation?

What role does oxytocin play in lactation?

Which hormone is secreted in response to increased osmotic pressure of the body fluids?

Which structure carries neurons from the hypothalamus to the posterior pituitary?

Hormones from which structure controls the secretion of the anterior pituitary?

From where to where does the hypothalamo-hypophyseal carry hormones?

What are the 2 functions of the pituitary gland?

What structure regulates the secretary of the pituitary gland?

What deficiency does your patient have if the patient is feeling tired lately after having blood work completed showing elevated TSH, low iodine, low thyroid hormone levels?

After a meal, blood glucose levels rise and stimulate the release of insulin, what type of stimulation is this an example of?

Which kind of hormones diffuse easily through the plasma membrane?

Where are the receptors for the most lipid soluble hormones located?

Where are the receptors for most soluble hormones located?

What process produces an increase in the sensitivity of the target cell to the hormone?

By what mechanism are most hormones regulated?

In some forms of diabetes an insensitivity to insulin seems to be present, what does this insensitivity seem to be the result of?

Parathyroid hormone is released when blood calcium is released, this is an example controlled by which stimuli?

Lipid soluble hormones can be more easily excreted once they have water soluble molecules added to their structure. This is called?

What term do we use for an intercellular chemical signal that is produced by neurons but functions like a hormone?

What do all hormones have in common?

What is the main hormone of the male reproductive system?

What would adrenal androgens do in females?

Which hormone stimulates development of follicles in the ovary?

What condition does the patient have if they have no height increase, large hands and large tongue?

If you compare the nervous and endocrine system which one responds quickly and stays active?

What happens to hormones with short half-life?

If a patient with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus forgets to take their insulin, what would that cause?

What would increase insulin secretion immediately following their meal?

Which cells does glucagon primarily influence?

2 hormones increase and decrease when blood sugar levels decrease. What are those hormones?

Which hormones are produced in the islets of Langerhans?

Which cells of the pancreas secrete glucagon?

High blood glucose levels increase which secretion of which hormone?

What condition may be the cause of hypoglycemia, depressed immune system and redistribution of fat from limbs to the face limbs and abdomen?

Which organ has both an endocrine and exocrine function?

Which hormone has the function of increasing the uptake of glucose by the target cells?

Which hormone stimulates gluconeogenesis?

Which hormone is secreted by the zona fascicular by the adrenal gland?

The primary stimulus for the release of adrenal medullary hormones comes from where?

What 3 hormones are secreted by the adrenal cortex?

What hormone if injected increases blood pressure?

Which endocrine gland are located on top of the kidneys?

What are the major secreting project of the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal cortex?

When does the rate of secretion of parathyroid hormone increase?

When does patient complain of weight gain?

Your patient shows they have increased metabolic activity and weight loss what condition do they have?

What ion is necessary for production?

If your patient presents with exophthalmos, what hormone is secreted in larger quantities?

What hormone is required for ovulation and formation of the corpus gluten?

If there is hypersecretion of growth hormone in a child what is the condition?

What hormone increase amino acid up-take?

What gland is located in the Sella Turcica?

Which hormone is stored and released in the posterior pituitary?

What happens to urine volume when urine volume decreases?

Which hormone would be affected if fluid intake increases dramatically over a short time frame?

Which hormones are synthesized by the hypothalamus?

What hormone is sometimes given to women to induce labor?

What is the role of cyclic AMP when it acts as an intracellular mediator?

What is the regulatory protein associated with membrane bound receptor molecules, it has 3 subunits?

What type of chemical messenger stimulates the cell that originally secreted it?