Immune
Hormone
Clinical ExPhys
Lifespan
Environmental
200

This branch of the immune system, often called the "native" or "natural" system, is the one you are born with and represents your first line of defense against pathogens

Innate immune system

200

This hormone's receptor is on the Cell Membrane. 

Peptide Hormone

200

Being "Overweight" is defined as having a BMI of what range?

25-29.9

200

What is the weekly moderate intensity exercise prescription for adults?

150 min/week

200

Triggered by a sudden drop in skin temperature, this dangerous physiological reaction causes a doubling of heart rate and a massive increase in ventilatory drive, which can lead to drowning before hypothermia ever sets in

The cold shock response

400

This cell is the "quarterback" of the immune response

CD4+ T Cells

400

This molecule is known as the Second Messenger

Cyclic AMP

400

This clinical term describes the natural, involuntary loss of skeletal muscle mass and function that begins around age 30 and accelerates significantly after age 60.

Sarcopenis

400

Although many parents track growth from birth, a child's height at exactly this age is considered the most reliable predictor of their final adult stature

Age 3

400

This class of air pollutants, which includes ground-level ozone, is not produced directly but forms when primary pollutants interact with the environment in the presence of heat and sunlight

Secondary Pollutants 

600

This antibody is most commonly found in the blood

IgG

600

While Growth Hormone (GH) has direct metabolic effects, most of its anabolic actions are mediated indirectly by these substances produced in the liver.

Insulin-like Growth Factors

600

Often described as the "pear-shaped" phenotype, this type of obesity involves fat deposition in the hips and thighs and is actually considered more metabolically healthy than abdominal fat accumulation

Gynoid Phenotype

600

True or false: boys and girls show differences in strength at 7 years of age

False; differences are realized during puberty

600

Which portion of the hypothalamus is responsible for cooling the body down?

Anterior Hypothalamus

800

Unlike the complexes found on all nucleated cells, these specific proteins are found only on "antigen-presenting cells" and are required to hand off a foreign protein to a helper T-cell

MHC-II 

800

This specific hormone is known to be the most biologically active of the thyroid hormones, even though its precursor is produced in much higher quantities by the thyroid gland.

T3

800

Hydrostatic weighing is based on this guy's principle

Archimedes 

800

Why do men grow taller than women?

Estrogen fuses their endothelial growth plate sooner. 

800

What percent of bone mass is lost per month in microgravity?

1%

1000

Chronic exercise training can revert "sick" fat tissue back to a healthy state by shifting the macrophage population from the pro-inflammatory type to this beneficial, anti-inflammatory type

M2 Macrophage

1000

This "timing hypothesis" states that the benefits of this medical intervention are highly dependent on age, where starting it early in menopause can reduce heart disease risk, while starting it late may destabilize existing atherosclerotic plaques.

Hormone-replacement therapy

1000

Paper and pencil logs, heart rate monitors, and pedometers are common forms of THIS strategy to increase PA

Self-monitoring

1000

What is the 80% rule?

Stop eating when you are 80% full

1000

What secretes Bicarbonate?

The choroid plexus

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