The glands in the endocrine system that are the primary responders to stress.
What are adrenal glands?
100
This organ also has an accessory role in the digestive system as well as a gland in the endocrine system.
What is the pancreas?
100
This is the hormone associated with sleep and is produced by the pineal gland.
What is melatonin?
100
JFK had this disease. Hypersecretion of gluccocorticoids.
What is Addison's disease?
100
Also called synthetic testosterone and are used by some athletes.
What are anabolic steroids?
200
The two endocrine glands located deep in the brain.
What are the hypothalamus and pituitary glands?
200
The organ responsible for regulating insulin levels.
What is the pancreas?
200
The sex hormones more abundant in women.
What are progesterone and estrogen?
200
The two problems that can arise with an abnormal production of thyroid hormones.
What are hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism (Grave's disease)?
200
A gland important in immune system maturation in childhood but shrinks with age.
What is the thymus?
300
This gland produces ADH and oxytocin.
What is the hypothalamus?
300
These glands are influenced by the hypothalamus and pituitary which send signals to produce hormones such as FSH and LH.
What are the gonads?
300
The two basic categories of hormones.
What are protein and steroidal?
300
An insufficient amount of growth hormone, caused by a mutation, can produce this.
What is pituitary dwarfism?
300
There are 4 of these and they are located on the thyroid.
What are the parathyroid hormones?
400
This secretes eprinephrine and norepinephrine.
What is the adrenal medulla?
400
This gland is involved in BMR.
What is the Thyroid?
400
The triggering mechanism that relays a message from outside of the cell into an action that occurs inside a cell.
What is a signal transduction pathway?
400
To combat this disease, one may monitor diet and exercise or inject insulin.
What is diabetes?
400
The two hormones that work together to maintain calcium homestasis.
(Hint: Recal from previous chapters)
What are calcitonin and parathyroid hormone?
500
Without an inadequate amount of these, glucose cannot be replenished in the blood during stressful events.
What are glucocorticoids?
500
Maintains calcium homeostasis.
What are the parathyroid and thyroid glands?
500
The two ways hormones signal or elicit a response from target cells.
(Hint: _______ to trigger/initiate a response)
What is binding to the cell surface or diffusing into the cell?
500
This can be caused by an iodine deficiency.
What is a goiter?
500
(Sorry not Jeopardy format...) How does negative feedback work in relation to hormone release?
- change in a measured variable detected by receptors
- endocrine organ initiates response
- hormone released
- target cells respond to negate the changed variable