Hormone Types & Pathways
This type of hormone is lipid-soluble and typically works by entering the cell and affecting gene expression.
steroid hormones
ADH is released from this part of the pituitary gland.
Answer: What is the posterior pituitary?
This tissue is the site of blood cell production.
Answer: What is bone marrow?
This clotting factor is converted into thrombin during the coagulation cascade.
Answer: What is prothrombin?
These proteins on the cell surface help the immune system recognize our cells vs invader cells
What are antigens?
Identify the tropic hormones from the following list:
CRH, PTH, TSH, CRH, TRH
What is TSH?
This feedback type occurs when a hormone’s effects reduce the original stimulus that triggered its release.
Answer: What is negative feedback?
This gland secretes calcitonin.
Answer: What is the thyroid?
These are the formed elements responsible for oxygen transport.
Answer: What are red blood cells (erythrocytes)?
After a clot has served its purpose, this process breaks it down.
Answer: What is fibrinolysis?
People with this blood type have both A and B antigens on their red blood cells.
Answer: What is Type AB?
ADH and oxytocin are synthesized in the _____________ whereas prolactin and GH are synthesized by the ____________
Hypothalamus
Anterior Pituitary
Parathyroid hormone is released when levels of this ion in the blood are too low.
Answer: What is calcium (Ca²⁺)?
This gland produces melatonin and helps regulate circadian rhythms.
Answer: What is the pineal gland?
The process of blood cell formation is called this.
Answer: What is hematopoiesis?
This clotting factor stabilizes the fibrin clot by crosslinking fibrin strands.
Answer: What is Factor XIII?
This factor determines whether blood type is positive or negative.
Answer: What is the Rh factor?
This clotting factor is also known as fibrinogen.
Answer: What is Factor I?
Steroid hormones differ from peptide hormones because they bind to receptors located here.
Answer: Where is inside the cell (intracellular receptors, often in nucleus or cytoplasm)?
This anterior pituitary hormone stimulates the thyroid gland to release thyroid hormones.
Answer: What is thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)?
These white blood cells are responsible for producing antibodies.
Answer: What are lymphocytes (B cells)?
This protein forms a mesh that strengthens the blood clot.
Answer: What is fibrin?
A person with Type AB positive blood is considered this in transfusion terms.
Answer: What is the universal recipient?
Both the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways activate this factor to begin the common pathway.
Answer: What is Factor X?
This type of feedback amplifies a change, such as increasing oxytocin release during childbirth.
Answer: What is positive feedback?
This hormone, produced by the pancreas and raises blood glucose levels.
Answer: What is glucagon?
The hematocrit of a healthy adult human
What is 45%?
Heparin is an example of a potent ________________
What is anticoagulant?
In a blood typing test, the patient's blood sample is added to three tubes, each containing a different antibody: anti-A, anti-B, and anti-Rh(D).
You observe clotting in the anti-A and anti-Rh(D) tubes, which confirms the patient has type _______ blood
This is the final protein product that forms the meshwork of a blood clot.
Answer: What is fibrin?
Protein (peptide) hormones require this inside the target cell
Secondary messengers
This mineralocorticoid hormone from the adrenal cortex helps regulate sodium and water balance.
Answer: What is aldosterone?
This is the common stem cell for all formed elements
What are hemocytoblasts?
List the correct order of clotting factors used in the common pathway
10 --> 5 --> 2 --> 1 and 13 makes it done!
If an Rh-negative person is exposed to Rh-positive blood, they may begin producing these.
Answer: What are anti-Rh (anti-D) antibodies?
Select which option below would represent the higher amount
A. The amount of water reabsorbed by the kidney when ADH is PRESENT
B. The amount of water reabsorbed by the kidneys when ADH is ABSENT
What is option A?