Almost everything you need to know about the endocrine system
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What are some characteristics of the Nervous System?
What are the target cells for the Nervous System?
What are some characteristics of the Endocrine System?
What are the target cells for the Endocrine System?
How do hormones travel?
What are the 2 types of Glands?
What are exocrine glands?
What are some examples of exocrine glands?
What are endocrine glands?
What are some examples of endocrine glands?
What are endocrine glands very dependent on?
What does a hormone absolutely need for it to bind to a target cell?
Why are receptors so necessary?
What is down-regulation?
What does it mean when there is a down-regulation of a hormone?
What do synthetic hormones do?
What are circulating hormones?
How are circulating hormones inactivated and excreted?
What are local hormones?
What piece of information stands out about local hormones?
What are paracrine hormones?
What are autocrine hormones?
What types of hormones have a larger abundance?
Which type of hormones stay in effect longer?
Which type of hormones are inactivated quickly?
What are 3 types of lipid-soluble hormones?
What are steroid hormones?
What is the result of steroid hormones having different chemical attachments?
What is the difference b/w the Nervous and Endocrine systems regarding their target?
What characteristic makes a hormone a hormone?
What is a characteristic about hormone receptors?
What are natriuretic peptides?
What kind of hormone is histamine?
What is a Thyroid hormone?
What are thyroid hormones responsible for?
What is a characteristic of lipid-soluble hormones?
Why can the ability of lipid-soluble hormones being able to go straight through the lipid-bilayer be a potential problem?
What are the different types of water soluble hormones?
How are water-soluble hormones transported in the blood?
How are lipid-soluble hormones transported in the blood?
What organ synthesizes the transport protein?
What hormones can be taken by the mouth and why?
What hormones must be injected directly to the blood stream?
The response to a hormone depends on what?
What is a characteristic about target cells?
What are the different effects of a hormone?
How does a hormone announce its arrival?
Where are the receptors for lipid-soluble hormones?
Where are the receptors of water-soluble hormones?
What is the 1st step of an lipid-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
What is the 2nd step of a lipid-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
How does the hormone-receptor complex alter gene expression?
What is the 3rd step of a lipid-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
What is the 4th step of a lipid-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
What is the difference with water-soluble hormones?
What is the 1st messenger?
What is the 2nd messenger?
What is the 1st step of a water-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
What is the 2nd step of a water-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
What is the 3rd step of a water-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
What is the 4th step of water-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
What is the 5th step of a water-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
What is the 6th step of a water-soluble hormone acting on a target cell?
How does the hormone response stop?
What are cascades/chain reactions?
The responsiveness of a target cell depends on what things?
What 2 factors give a hormone a more vigorous effect?
What is a permissive effect?
What is a synergistic effect?
What is an antagonistic effect?
What is the difference between permissive and synergistic?
How is the ONLY way that hormones can be released?
How is hormone secretion regulated?
Most regulatory responses are based on what type of feedback?
What is the hypothalamus
Why is the hypothalamus considered the "Master Gland"?
What is the pituitary gland?
What is) the pituitary gland split up into?
Why is there a hypophyseal portal system only for the adenohypophysis?
What are somatotrophs?
What are thyrotrophs?
What are gonadotrophs?
What are lactotrophs?
What are corticotrophs?
How are the anterior pituitary gland hormones released?
How are hypothalamic hormones sent to the anterior pituitary?
What are tropic hormones?
What are the hormones of the Anterior Pituitary gland?
What does the HGH do?
What does the TSH do?
What does FSH do?
What does LH do?
Why can TSH go through lipid bi-layers?
What is dwarfism?
What is gigantism?
What is acromegaly?
What is PRL?
What hormone allows milk to actually be released from the breast?
What does ACTH do?
What does MSH do?
What does cortisol do?
How does cortisol get released?
What is cushing's syndrome?
What are symptoms of Cushing's Syndrome?
What is Addison's Disease?
What is special about the posterior pituitary hormones?
What are the 2 hormones that are produced by the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pit. gland?
What does Oxytocin do?
What does ADH do?
What stimulates oxytocin?
The thyroid gland contains ______ that produces _______?
What do the thyroid hormones do?
T3 and T4 are what kind of hormones?
What is the other kind of follicular cells?
What are the 2 lobes of the thyroid gland connected by?
What does the bird flu cause?
What type of effect would the thyroid hormones be considered as?
What does vasodilation do in regards to ADH secretion?
How is the secretion of the thyroid hormone controlled?
What is the process of Thyroid hormone regulation?
What kind of feedback would thyroid regulation be considered as?
What is needed for thyroid hormones?
What are some iodine deficiency disorders?
What does the PTH do?
What happens if there is too much secretion of PTH?
What are oxyphil cells?
What are the chief cells?
What happens when there is a high level of blood calcium levels?
What happens if there is a low level of blood calcium?
The adrenal cortex (outer region of adrenal gland) secretes what hormones?
What does Aldosterone do?
What does cortisol do?
What are androgens?
What is DHEA and what does it do?
What happens if a man uses DHEA?
What does the adrenal medulla consist of?
What are glucocorticoids?
What are mineralcorticoids?
What is Addison's disease?
What is precocious puberty?
What is the pancreas?
What do 99% of pancreatic cells produce?
What kind of cells does the Islets of Langerhans produce?
What do alpha cells do?
What do beta cells do?
What do delta cells do?
What do F cells do?
What is the exocrine function of the islets of Langerhans?
What is the endocrine function of the pancreas?
What do hormones FSH and LH do?
What does inhibin do?
What hormone is produced during pregnancy and what does it do?
What does the pineal gland secrete?
When is more melatonin liberated?
What helps an individual get more melatonin?
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
What does the thymus do?
What happens to the thymus as a person gets older?
What are the 2 kinds of stress?
What happens when a person is going through stressful conditions?
What is the first stage of GAS?
What is the second phase of GAS?
What is the 3rd phase of GAS?
