Pituitary Gland
This hormone is responsible for uterine contractions.
What is oxytocin?
The metabolic hormone that is the majority of the hormones produced by the thyroid gland
What is T4 (thyroxine)?
The structure that attaches the pituitary to the hypothalamus.
The pituitary stalk or infundibulum.
The genetic disease that causes growth hormone deficiency?
What is pituitary dwarfism?
These adrenal hormones are released in response to stimulation by the sympathetic nervous system.
What are epinephrine and norepinephrine?
Colloid in the follicles
Where are T3 and T4 made and stored?
The Hypothalamohypophyseal tract is the structure that does this.
What joins the hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary?
Hypothyroidism in adults.
What is myxedema?
Small amounts of these hormones are produced in the zona reticularis.
What are adrenal androgens?
Effects of glucagon on blood sugar levels.
What is the hormone that pulls glucose out of the liver to combat hypoglycemia?
The mineral that is needed to make the thyroid metabolic hormones.
What is iodine?
The inhibitory hormone for prolactin that comes from the hypothalamus
What is dopamine?
The most common cause of hyperthyroidism.
What is Grave's disease?
(presents w/rapid or irregular heartbeat, weight loss despite increased appetite, and increased sweating and heat intolerance)
The insulin independent protein that allows glucose to enter the beta cells of the pancreas.
What are the GLUT 2 molecules?
This thyroid hormone is secreted from the parafollicular cells in the thyroid.
What is calcitonin?
The three ways by which the hypothalamus regulates the endocrine system.
What are sympathetic control of adrenal medulla, regulatory hormones to anterior pituitary, nervous control of posterior pituitary?
The name given to the deficiency of adrenocortical hormones.
What is Addison's disease?
The hormone that is produced by the liver in response to growth hormone.
What is somatomedin or IGF-1?
Glucocorticoids cause the following physiological changes.
What are lipolysis, protein break down, gluconeogenesis, hyperglycemia?
What is somatostatin?
Addition of iodine to the tyrosine molecules
What is organification?
The other name for growth hormone inhibitory hormone.
What is the somatostatin?
A patient has both high levels of ACTH and high levels of cortisol in the blood stream.
What is Cushing's disease (secondary hypercortisolism or pituitary Cushing's)?
Decreased blood glucose, starvation, decreased blood free fatty acids and deep sleep.
What increases growth hormone production?
The rate limiting step in adrenocortical hormone synthesis that is controlled by ACTH.
What is the reaction going from cholesterol to pregnenolone?
The major organ that has no receptors for insulin and so is not affected by it.
What is the brain?
The cause of increased pulse pressure but normal MAP seen in hyperthyroidism.
What is increased cardiac output and decreased peripheral resistance?
The pars intermedia is the remnant of this structure.
What is Rathke's pouch?
A 10 year old presents with weight loss, polyuria, polydypsia and polyphagia.
What is Diabetes Mellitus Type I?