ENDOCRINE GAME SHOW By: Kristen Oxender

Hormones Organs Pituitary Hormones

Homeostasis Stress Response

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HORMONES This type of distribution usually is

limited to adjacent cells of the same type that are interconnected by

connexons Answer: Direct Communication

HORMONES Paracrine communication is transmitted through extracellular fluid, and is distributed primarily to who? Answer: Local area, where paracrine factor concentrations are relatively high; target cells must have appropriate receptors

HORMONES What type of classification is this hormone?

Answer: Estrogen, Steroid hormone

HORMONES Peptide hormones are synthesized as prohormoes. What is a prohormone?

Answer: inactive molecules that are converted to active hormones either before or after they are secreted.

ORGANS Which organ secretes hormones involved with fluid balance and smooth muscle contractions?

Answer: hypothalamus

ORGANS A person goes to their Dr. for a check up and complains that their sleep/wake cycle is messed up. What organ would be causing this?

Answer: Pineal

ORGANS Which organ does not work properly with a person who has diabetes?

Answer: pancreases

ORGANS A dear friend comes to you with concerns about their weight. Even though she exercises and eats a balanced diet, she still cannot lose weight. Which organ would you recommend her getting checked out?

Answer: Thyroid gland

ORGANS You are rock climbing and the rock that you are holding onto starts to slip…What organ is going to release the hormones you are feeling, and name the two hormones.

Answer: Epinephrine and Norepinephrine

PITUITARY HORMONES

What are the hormones of the anterior lone called?

Answer: tropic hormones

PITUITARY HORMONES

How many hormones are released by the pituitary gland, and why type of hormone are they?

Answer: 9 peptide hormones

PITUITARY HORMONES

This type of hormone targets cells that produce hormones that affect glucose metabolism

Answer: ACTH, adrenocorticotropic hormone

PITUITARY HORMONES

A mother is breastfeeding her new born infant. Which hormone is responsible for this action?

Answer: Prolactin

PITUITARY HORMONES

Liver cells respond to GH by synthesizing and releasing __________________

Answer: Somatomedins

HOMEOSTASIS

What is homeostasis regulated by?

Answer: Negative Feedback

HOMEOSTASIS

When the normal blood calcium level is below 8.5 mg/dL, what hormone is secreted?

Answer: PTH

HOMEOSTASIS

When calcium levels in the blood are 11.2 mg/dL, what does the thyroid gland produce?

Answer: Calcitonin

HOMEOSTASIS

Alpha cells secrete glucagon when blood glucose levels are below 70 mg/dL. Name one way alpha cells work?

Answer: Increase breakdown of glycogen in glucose, increase breakdown of fat to fatty acids, increase synthesis and release of glucose

HOMEOSTASIS

When BP and volume is below normal, name the two hormones that are released, and name which system is activated by these two hormones

Answer: Erythropoietin, Renin, Renin-angiotensis system

STRESS RESPONSE

Name the two forms of stress

Answer: Physical and Emotional

STRESS RESPONSE

What is the name of the response to stress

Answer: GAS, general adaptation syndrome

STRESS RESPONSE

Name the three phases of GAS

Answer: Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

STRESS RESPONSE

What is the dominate hormone of the alarm phase?

Answer: Epinephrine

STRESS RESPONSE

What classification of hormones are the dominate response in the resistance phase?

Answer: Glucocorticoid

RANDOM

Name the three zones of the adrenal gland

Answer: Zone glomerulosa, zone fasciculate, zone reticularis

RANDOM What type of cell produces insulin?

Answer: Beta Cells

RANDOM Hypothalamic regulatory hormones are which two types?

Answer: Releasing hormones, and inhibiting hormones

RANDOMA fellow student needs help studying for your exam. She cannot remember which mineral the thyroid gland uses. What would you tell her?

Answer: Iodine

RANDOM Produced by adrenal cortex. Target the kidney to promote sodium reabsorption and help control the salt-water balance.

Answer: Mineralocorticoids