Diseases & Disorders
Excess growth hormone during adulthood results in what condition?
Acromegaly
When centrifuged, which blood layer would contain platelets?
This automatic response is caused by an extreme stimulus to allow your body to avoid damage
Reflex
What type of receptor is responsible for your senses of smell and gustation?
Chemoreceptors
In order for a cell to respond to a hormone it must have it's corresponding...
Receptor
Chronic elevated blood sugar is a common characteristic of what disease?
Diabetes Mellitus
The main purpose of blood is to transport nutrients around the body. What protein in red blood cells transports oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Hemoglobin
Cells of what function division of the nervous system can be found in the anterior horn of the spinal cord?
Somatic Motor
When light travels through vitreous humor, it comes in contact with that cells before being absorbed by photoreceptors?
Bipolar and Ganglion cells
Steroid hormones are produced from what precursor molecule?
Cholesterol
You are performing a surgery on a patient's neck and due to complications, you must remove the thyroid gland meaning that going forward they will have no thyroid hormone secretion. What disease will be the consequence of your mistake?
Hypothyroidism
What fluid pushes against the cupula to bend stereocilia when your head moves?
Endolymph
Which autonomic division would be responsible for increasing heart rate, increasing ACh & NE release, and decreasing digestion?
Sympathetic
What section of the inner ear is responsible for your sense of balance/equilibrium?
Vestibular Complex
What hormone, involved in a positive feedback loop, is responsible for stimulating milk production in mammary glands?
Prolactin
A pateint comes into the clinic complaining of being exhausted, but they can't fall asleep. They also say that they get way too sweaty when they exercise or even when they're just sitting around. When testing their blood, you find lots of antibodies that look like thyroid stimulating hormone. What is your diagnosis?
Hyperthyroidism brought on by Grave's Disease
What is the attraction that causes white blood cells to undergo diapedesis?
Chemotaxis
What type of autonomic system holds the body's heart rate around 80bpm?
Parasympathetic Tone
To produce the sensation of a sound, air waves must hit what structure on what cell?
Stereocilia/Hair cells
The digestion of what protein releases iodinated hormones?
Thyroglobulin