Glands
What gland would be affected by hypothyroidism?
What is the thyroid?
This hormone stimulates the growth of bone and muscle and increases protein synthesis.
What is growth hormone (GH)?
What is homeostasis?
What is the body's ability to maintain its internal stability, despite what is happening outside the body?
Most common diagnosis of hyperthyroidism (autoimmune)
What is Graves' Disease?
What two glands are gonads?
What is the ovaries and testes?
This hormone stimulates the thyroid gland to produce T3 and T4.
What is thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)?
What role do receptors play in homeostasis?
What is: they sense changes in the body and send signals to effectors?
The symptoms of this disease are unintentional weight gain, fatigue and lethargy, and puffiness and swelling.
What is Hypothyroidism?
Where is the adrenal gland located?
What is above the kidney?
What do many of the hormones leaving the pituitary gland cause?
What is: they trigger other glands to produce their hormones?
What is NOT a process of homeostasis?
What is: Muscle growth, which is developmental and not regulatory?
This disease is caused by the failure of this part of the adrenal gland.
What is the adrenal cortex?
What gland is responsible for producing hormones like FSH, LH, growth hormone, and others?
What is the anterior pituitary gland?
Which hormone controls the thyroid gland?
What is thyroid-stimulating hormone?
This organ regulates water balance and filters blood.
What is the kidney?
This diagnosis is associated with the oversecretion of Human Growth Hormone (HGH).
What is Acromegaly/Gigantism?
Where does the hypothalamus receive information from?
What is the brain and the bloodstream?
What does thymosin allow?
What is: helps T cells mature before puberty?
What hormone regulates glucose levels after a meal?
What is insulin?
Excess cortisol production causes this syndrome.
What is Cushing’s syndrome?