Hormones
Which hormone stimulates protein synthesis and general growth in the body
What is growth hormone?
Transport and storage form
What is ferric iron?
What is the function of catecholamines?
What is stress response?
200-360 mg/dL
what is transferrin?
Lab Features
Microcytic,
hypochromic
anemia
Anisocytosis,
poikilocytosis
Total iron and
ferritin decreased
TIBC increased
What is IDA?
Which of the hormone is produced as part of the stress response
What is cortisol?
Absorbed form
What is ferric iron?
What does serotonin do?
helps regulate attention, behavior and body temperature.
Helps regulate the digestive process, blood flow and breathing
Male: 20-250 ng/mL
Female: 10-120 ng/mL
what is ferritin?
Decreased hemoglobin production due to
decreased amount of free iron
Lab features
Iron, TIBC decreased
Ferritin increased
What is anemia of chronic disease?
Which hormone is released to promote ovulation in ovaries
What is lutenizing hotmone?
Picks up free, ferric form iron from
GI tract and delivers it to specific
receptor sites
What is transferrin?
The main reason a doctor will test
a person's catecholamine levels
What is to check for a tumor?
250-425 μg/dL
What is TIBC?
Hereditary disorders
of iron metabolism
Hemosiderin is
deposited within cells
and interstitial fluid
Primarily effects liver,
heart, endocrine
glands
What is hemochromatosis?
Which hormone stimulate thyroid hormone production?
What is TSH?
The 3 components of an iron study
What are total iron, TIBC, and % iron saturation
high
blood pressure which can lead to headaches, sweating, pounding of the heart,
pain in the chest, and anxiety
What are the side effects of high catecholamines?
Men: 65-165 μg/dL
Women: 45-160 μg/dL
What is iron?
Clinical symptoms
Port wine colored urine
Cutaneous photosensitivity
Itchy skin (photodermitidis)
Hyperpigmentation
Inflammatory reaction occurs on exposure to
ultraviolet light
Neurologic abnormalities
Porphyrias
Which hormone inhibits GH and TSH release?
What is somatostatin?
The following are an indication of
• Hemolytic anemia
• Lead poisoning
• Pernicious anemia
• Megaloblastic
anemia
• Hepatitis
increased iron in the blood
signs and symptoms that can range from mild
(shivering and diarrhea) to severe (muscle rigidity, fever and seizures).
What are the side effects of high serotonin?
15-55
what is % saturation?
CNS symptoms: headache ,clumsiness, seizures,
behavioral changes
GI symptoms: Abdominal pain, colic, constipation
What is lead toxicity?