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Endocrine System Fill In The Blanks

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Question: What is the of the endocrine system?Answer: It functions with the nervous system to and maintain homeostasis.
Question: What is ?Answer: Constant environment.
Question: The systems in the body are?Answer: The system and endocrine system
Question: What is the function of the nervous ?Answer: Detect changes in the and external environment, to bring about changes to maintain homeostasis.
Question: What system provides short-term management?Answer: The system
Question: What kind of is the endocrine system under?Answer: -modulated
Question: What type of is the nervous system under?Answer: Frequency-
Question: What does modulated mean?Answer: The
Question: What does modulated mean?Answer: How
Question: What does it mean when we say the system is amplitude modulated?Answer: The amount of hormone released you a differenct outcome
Question: What does it mean when we say the system is frequency modulated?Answer: How often gives you the ; once you hit the threshold, it must be redone to get the outcome
Question: What is the difference in speed of the in the endocrine system and the nervous system?Answer: The endocrine is slower and lasting
Question: What does the endocrine deal with?Answer: hormones
Question: What does the nervous deal with?Answer: neurotransmitters
Question: What is an gland and its function?Answer: ductless, hormones into tissue fluid, from which is diffuses into the blood
Question: What is fluid?Answer: solution which cells in the body
Question: What is an gland and its function?Answer: products thru ducts into a lumen or onto a surface
Question: What does - " and "exo-" mean?Answer: Endo- internal; Exo- means external
Question: What are examples of gland products?Answer: Sweat, oil, , spit
Question: What is a ?Answer: (ligand comes from latin ligare = to bind) its a molecule that binds to another, normally refers to a soluble molecule such as a or nerurotransmitter that binds to a receptor.
Question: What is a ?Answer: A chemical messenger that is released in tissue and in the blood stream to alter the activities of a specific cells in other tissues
Question: Where do hormones take ?Answer: at their target
Question: Do have acion in the glands?Answer: No, they do not have where they are produced.
Question: Where are secreted?Answer: in the interstitial
Question: What hormones to tissues?Answer:
Question: Where are hormones ?Answer: in endocrine
Question: Hormones are relased from glands into?Answer: the interstitial fluid where they diffuse into the and travel tro target tissues
Question: What action occurs when hormones meet target tissues?Answer: A response occurs
Question: What are circulating ?Answer: hormones that pass into the blood and act on distant cells
Question: What are hormones?Answer: Other chemical messengers (not hormones) produced by endocrine glands
Question: Two examples of local are?Answer: paracrines and
Question: What is a ?Answer: "para-" meaning near by/ next to; a local hormone that DIFFUSES to their targets; these chemical messengers are not transported thru
Question: What is an ?Answer: a local hormone that effects the same cell or type of that release them
Question: What are messengers?Answer: , neurohormones, neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, and parahormones
Question: What is a ?Answer: they are by neurons and behave like hormones
Question: What are 3 ways to hormones?Answer: Based on 1. Function 2. 3. Chemical Structure
Question: Based on function the response of a is?Answer: kinetic or
Question: Kinetic ?Answer: movement
Question: regulates?Answer: the total sum of chemical reactions occuring in the body
Question: Based on solubility hormones are as?Answer: lipid soluble, water soluble, or
Question: What are ?Answer: Hydrophobic, molecules such as fats, oils, wax, , cholesterol
Question: What are soluble horrmones?Answer: Steroid hormones, thyroid hormones, and nitric
Question: What are soluble hormones?Answer: catecholamines, peptide and hormones
Question: What does mean?Answer: its a collective term for oxygenated derivatives of three different 20-carbon essential fatty acids; are lipid of arachidonic acid
Question: Based on solubility what are eicosanoid ?Answer: prostoglandins and
Question: Based on chemical hormones are classified as?Answer: lipid derived, amino acid , and peptide hormones
Question: What are lipid derived ?Answer: and steroid hormones
Question: What are eicosaoids ?Answer: leukotrienes, prostoglandins, thromboxanes,
Question: Steroid hormones are structurally to?Answer:
Question: What are steroid ?Answer: androgens, estrogens, progestins, mineralcorticoids, glucocorticoids,androgens,
Question: What are the steroid hormones located in the ?Answer: androgens, estrogens,
Question: What are steroid hormones located in the adrenal ?Answer: and glucocorticoids, and androgens
Question: What are steroid hormones in the kidneys?Answer: Calcitrol
Question: Define a derivativeAnswer: rings and side chains built from fatty acids and cholesterol
Question: Define amino acid derivatives (aka biogenic )Answer: small molecules related to individual amino acids, are made from tyrosine and tryptophan
Question: What is and tryptophan?Answer: tyrosine is a amino acid and tryptophan is another amino acid
Question: What are derived hormones?Answer: amino acid derivatives, broken into two groups thyroid hormones and
Question: What are thyroid ?Answer: and amino acid derivatives, lipid soluble, therefore not soluble in water include T3 - TRIODOTHYRONINE and T4 - THYROXINE
Question: What does the number for in regards to T3 and T4?Answer: the number of of iodine in a molecule
Question: What are ?Answer: derived, amino acid derived include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine
Question: What is a tryptophan derived ?Answer: an acid derivative, the hormone melatonin
Question: Epinephrine and are secreted by?Answer: the medulla
Question: Melatonin is by?Answer: the pineal
 
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