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| What are the two main systems of control? |
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| Nervous and endocrine system. |
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| What is the endocrine system responsible for? |
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| The secretion of hormones. |
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| Body regulating chemicals secreted by glands. |
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| Carried throughout the body by the bloodstream. |
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| How is the pituitary gland divided? |
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| anterier and posterior pituitary |
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| What does the anterior pituitary produce? |
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FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormone)
LH (Leutinizing Hormone)
GH (Growth Hormone)
TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone)
ACTH
Prolactin |
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| Causes the development of the follicle in the ovary. |
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| Has a general action on metabolism. Aids in growth regulation. |
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| Causes the secretion of thyroxine. |
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| The adrenal cortex to produce cortisol. |
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| What does the posterior pituitary prodcue? |
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| What does oxytocin cause? |
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| What does the pancreas produce? |
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| Control the level of sugar in the blood. |
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| What does the thyroid gland produce? |
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| Involved in metabolic control |
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| Where are the 2 adrenal glands located? |
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| What does the adrenal gland consist of? |
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| Adrenal cortex and the adrenal medulla |
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| What does the adrenal cortex produce? |
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| Affects the water content of tissues. |
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| What does the adrenal medulla do? |
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| "Fight/Flight Hormone", increases heartrate and blood supply to muscles, also affects sweating |
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| What does the yellow body of the ovary produce? |
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| What does progesterone do? |
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| Causes the changes of diestrus and pregnancy |
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| What does the yellow body follicle of the ovary produce? |
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| Causes estrus (heat) and associated behavior |
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| What does the uterus produce? |
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| What does prostagladin do? |
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| Stops the secretion of progesterone |
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| What does PMSG stand for? |
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| Pregnant Mare's Serum Gonadotrophin |
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| What does the pineal gland do? |
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| What are steroid hormones? |
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| Hormones that have a chemical structure of 4 carbon rings and are therefore closely related to one another. |
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| What do steroid hormones include? |
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| Progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, and cortisone -- the body can change one steroid hormone into another |
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| What is secreted in non-pregnant mares by the yellow body of the ovary? |
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| Where is progesterone secreted by pregnant mares? |
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| What does a detectable amount of progesterone in the blood indicate? |
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| What does a high amount of progesterone in the blood indicate? |
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| The mare is in the first 120 days of pregnancy. |
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| What happens when there is no progesterone present in the bloodstream? |
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| The mare is over 120 days pregnant. |
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| Is progesterone detectable in the pregnant mare's reproductive tract? |
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| Yes, just not in her bloodstream after 120 days. |
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| Hormones secreted by the lining of the follicles in the ovaries. |
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| Used to diagnose pregancy after 120 days, tests for estrogen in the urine. |
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| Estradiol, Estrone sulphate, Estrone, Equenin, Equilinin |
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| What estrogens are unique to the horse family? When are they produced? |
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| Equenin and equilinin, only during pregnacy |
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| What are estrogens responsible for? |
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| Signs of heat, feminine characteristics, and fetal growth |
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| The outerlining of the adrenal gland (adrenal cortex) |
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| Stimulates the metablolish and prepares an individual for strenuous activity. |
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| Corisone is released when what happens? |
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| ACTH is secreted by the pituitary |
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| The male sex hormone secreted by the testes. |
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| What is testosterone responsible for? |
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| Male characteristics, libido, retention of nitrogen in the body |
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| Why is testosterone sometimes injected into racehorses? |
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| Promotes muscle development (against Jockey Club rules) |
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| Stimulates the grwowth of follicles in the ovary, also stimualtes secretion of estrogen |
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| equine Chorionic Gonadotrophin of eCG |
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| In the chorion of the placenta in the uterus of a pregnant mare. |
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| How does PMSG maintain pregnancy? |
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| Protects the fetus against the mare's immune system. |
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| Gonadotrophin Releasing Hormone |
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| Where is GnRH produced and what does it do? |
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| Produced in the brain/Causes the secretion of FSH and LH |
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