Thyroid
The location of the thyroid.
What is located around the trachea, below larynx?
The location of the adrenal glands.
What is sitting atop each kidney?
The female gonads.
What are ovaries?
The location of "releasing hormones".
What is the hypothalamus?
The hormone responsible for stimulating activation of Vitamin D.
What is parathyroid hormone?
The location TSH is released from.
What is the anterior pituitary?
The inner part of the adrenal gland.
What is the medulla?
The male gonads.
What are testes?
The two tissues cortisol provides positive feedback on during times of stress to maintain cortisol levels and provides negative feedback on when the stressor is removed to reduce cortisol levels.
What are the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary?
Examples of non-endocrine glands acted on by AP hormones and also secrete hormones.
What are liver, muscle, and fat?
The hormones produced by the thyroid.
What are T3 and T4?
The site of mineralocorticoids (aldosterone) production.
What is the adrenal cortex?
The biological effect of P4.
What is uterine quiescence?
The purpose of negative feedback.
What is to return to homeostasis?
The gland responsible for regulating circadian rhythm.
What is the pineal gland?
The function of the thyroid hormones.
What is basal metabolism and body heat?
The cells responsible for the production & secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine.
What are Chromaffin cells?
The gonadotropins responsible for stimulation, released by AP.
FSH and LH
An example of a hormone that does not utilize a "stimulating hormone" from the AP during its production.
What is prolactin?
The function of leptin.
What is inhibits hunger?
The % of iodine usage accounted for by the thyroid.
What is 99%?
The part of the adrenal gland stimulated by ACTH from the AP.
What is the adrenal cortex?
The type of cells produced by gonads for reproduction.
What are haploid germ cells?
A releasing hormone that stimulates the production/release of two hormones in both males and females.
What is GnRH?
The function and location of erythropoietin.