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| the stalk of the pituitary gland |
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| usually 4 in number, are small glands usually situated on the posterior aspect of the thyroid glands |
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| is a control loop whereby the product or output of a system acts back on the system to repress or stop its own production |
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| are chemical messengers--excluding neurotransmitters--which are released into the intercelluar fluid and which exert their influence on nearby cells |
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| are chemical messengers used by neurons to communicate with each other or with effector cells |
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| are chemical messengers released by neurons which then travel in the blood to their distant target cells |
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| are chemical messengers synthesized by endocrine cells in response to certain stimuli and secreted into the blood, which carries them to distant target cells |
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| a region of the brain, largely controls the secretion of hormones by the anterior pituitary |
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| anterior pituitary hormone |
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| regulates the dhormonal functioning of a distant endocrine gland |
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| is the outermost part of the adrenal gland which releases the adrenal steroid hormones |
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| the innermost part of the adrenal gland which releases the sympathetic hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine |
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| of the thyroid gland are responsible for the production of the thyroid hormones T3 & T4 |
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| a chemical element found in the thyroid hormones T3 & T4 |
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| What is the connection between the hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary gland? |
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| Another name for the anterrior pituitary is? |
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| What is the other name for the posterior pituitary? |
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| What is the neural extention of the posterior pituitary? |
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| What kind of cells is the anterior pituitary derived from? |
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| Epithelial cells in the mouth region which migrate upward in the head. |
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| What is the most important of the mineralcorticoids? |
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| What are the primary steroid hormones that are made and released by the adrenal cortex? |
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| What kind of connection is there between the anterior pituitary gland and they hypothalamus? |
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| comprise the endocrine portion of the pancreas, which is responsible for releasing glucagon and insulin |
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| and their ducts comprise the exocrine portion of the pancreas, which releases digestive enzymes into the gastrointestinal tract |
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| Steroid hormones are produced by? |
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| Ovaries & testes and the adrenal cortex. |
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| What hormone/s are released by the adrenal cortex? |
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| mineralcorticoids (aldosterone) & glucocorticoids (cortisol) |
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| What hormone/s are released by the adrenal medulla? |
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| epinephrine and norepinephrine |
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| What hormone/s are released by the hypothalamus? |
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| corticotropic releasing hormone (CRH)& groth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH/GHIH) |
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| What hormone/s are released by the pancreas? |
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| What hormone/s are released by the parathyroid glands? |
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| What hormone/s are released by the anterior pituitary? |
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| growth hormone, prolactin, sex hormones, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH) |
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| What hormone is released by the hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary? |
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| anti-diuretic hormone (ADH)& oxytocin |
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| What hormone is released by the thyroid gland? |
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| List three categories of corticosteroid hormones? |
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| mineralcorticoids, glucocorticoids and gonadocorticoids |
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| What hormone increases the plasma levels of calcium? |
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| What hormone sets the basal metabolic rate of the body? |
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| tri-iodothyronine (T3 & T4) |
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| What hormone stimulates cells to take up fuels from the blood? |
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| What hormone stimulates milk production by the breasts? |
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| What hormone stimulates the adrenal cortex to release glucocorticoids? |
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| What hormone is involved in prolonging and reinforcing the sympathetic response? |
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| What hormone helps the body prepare to cope with stress: at therapeutic levels, depresses the immune system? |
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| What hormone promotes the absorption of calcium by the intestine; this hormone may be obtained in the diet or synthesized from cholesterol when sunlight falls on exposed skin. |
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| calcitriol (active vitamin D) |
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| Which hormone stimulates contraction of smooth muscle; and my also be involved in invoking the "good feelings" surrounding such activities as cuddling? |
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| Which hormone causes the body to conserve sodium at the expense of potassium? |
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| What hormone stimulates growth in the long bones of the body? |
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| What is a weak androgenic sex hormone? |
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| What hormone/s causes insertion of water channels into kidney tubular epithelial cells, thus promoting water reabsorption from the forming of urine? |
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| What is the thyroid hormone that lowers blood calcium levels? |
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| What hormone raises blood glucose levels? |
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| Name two ways the parathyroid hormone acts to conserve or elevate blood calcium levels. |
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| Releases PTH (parathyroid hormone which cause bone cells to absorb the bony matrix & release calcium and it also causes the kidneys to reabsorb more calcium and convert vitamin D into calcitriol which the body need to absorb calcium from food. |
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