Endocrine System Tic-Tac-Toe

Endocrine 1

100

An overproduction of this hormone causes Gigantism in children and Acromegaly in adults.

What is Growth Hormone (GH)?

200

Provide an example of a hormone pair that expresses a  permissive relationship. What makes it permissive?

What is Prolactin (PRL) and Oxytocin?

Prolactin stimulates milk production, Oxytocin stimulates milk ejection.

300

List the chain of thyroid hormone release. Which structures and hormones are in this process?

What is 

1. Hypothalamus releasing TRH to adenohypophysis

2. Adenohypophysis releasing TSH to Thyroid Gland

3. Thyroid Gland releasing TH to target cells 

400

State the difference(s) between autocrines, paracrines, and hormones

Autocrines: chemical messengers who affect only themselves

Paracrines: Short-distance chemical messengers (neighbors)

Hormones: Long-distance chemical messengers that travel through blood/lymph

500

Name the hormones produced by the Anterior Pituitary Gland (Adenohypophysis)

Which of these hormones are tropic hormones?

What is GH, LH, FSH, TSH, PRL, ACTH?

**LH, FSH, TSH, ACTH

Endocrine 2

100

This hormone is an amino acid-based hormone that acts like a steroid hormone.

What is Thyroid Hormone (TH)?

200

Explain the structure of T3 and T4. 

What ion comes into the cell from the blood and binds to the amino acid to make T3 and T4?

T3: 1 MIT and 1 DIT -- T4: 1 DIT and 1 DIT

What is iodine?

300

Name the secretory organ that Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) is released from. Where can you find this organ/gland?

What is the Parathyroid Gland?

**Four dots on the posterior side of the Thyroid Gland 

400

The pancreas' endocrine cells are 

A) Pancreatic Islets (alpha & beta cells)

B) Acinar Cells

What is:

A) Pancreatic Islets (alpha & beta cells)

500

_________ cells release Thyroid Hormone (TH), and ____________ cells release calcitonin.

What is Follicular and Parafollicular?

Endocrine 3

100

Glucagon and Insulin express a(n) __________ relationship. 

What is Antagonistic/Antagonism? 

200

Hypersecretion of _________ can eventually lead to osteoporosis.

What is Parathyroid Hormone (PTH)?

300

What is the difference between:

Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 &

Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Type 1: Hyposecretion of insulin (autoimmune attack on beta cells)

Type 2: Hypoactivity of insulin (caused by lifestyle factors)

400

List hormones that are steroid-based.

What is:

Corticosteroids (mineralo, gluco, and gonado), Testosterone, Estrogen(s), Progesterone, 

500

Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH) experiences a synergistic relationship with which hormone?

What is Aldosterone?