Hormone Actions
What hormone is responsible for the pigment of the skin?
What is the melanocyte-stimulating hormone?
List three major endocrine glands.
The major organs of the endocrine system include the: 1. Hypothalamus 2. Pituitary 3. Thyroid gland 4. Parathyroid glands 5. Thymus gland 6. Pancreas 7. Adrenal glands 10. Gonads
What is more common in the endocrine system: positive feedback or negative feedback?
What is Negative feedback?
What type of saline is used to treat SIADH?
What is hypertonic saline?
What are the messengers of the endocrine system?
What are Hormones?
What symptoms do you expect to find in Hyperparathyroidism?
What is elevated calcium?
Which gland produces glucocorticoids, mineralcorticoids, and androgens?
What is the adrenal cortex?
Which two hormones are produced by the pancreas to regulate blood glucose levels?
What is Insulin and glucagon?
Surgery to the thyroid gland can damage this gland.
Which hormone deficiency is the most life-threatening?
What is TSH?
Which hormone promotes uterine contractions and is responsible for milk production in the mammary glands?
What is oxytocin?
What is the "master gland" of the body?
What is the pituitary gland?
Hormone-receptor actions work in a (blank and blank) manner.
What is lock and key?
What condition is caused by an overproduction of GH in adults?
What is Acromegaly?
What condition do you worry about prevention of infection because of the high cortisol levels?
ACTH controls the secretion of which hormone?
What is cortisol?
Which two hormones are produced by the posterior pituitary gland?
What is oxytocin and ADH?
What gland is connected to the nervous system?
What is the Hypothalamus Gland?
What two signs indicate low serum calcium?
What is Chvostek's sign and Trousseau's Sign?
What are two functions of the endocrine system?
What is metabolism, immune system, nutrition, elimination, temperature, fluid/elyte balance, hear rate and blood pressure, growth, and reproduction?
What condition happens if a patient suddenly stops taking thyroid replacement?
What is Myxedema Coma?
If a person has diabetes insipidis, in which gland would you look for the cause?
What is the pituitary gland?
Explain how a negative feedback loop works.
A stimulus causes the creation of a product which then negates the stimulus.
What disorder is characterized by over secretion of cortisol, usually caused by a pituitary tumor?
What is Cushing's syndrome?
What type of thyroidism causes things to slow down?
What is hypothyriodism?