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Mckelvey's Hormones
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is acidosis? | the accumulation of acids in the blood |
| what are the characteristics of type 2 diabetes? | its more common in overweight people. the glucose levels can be controlled with diet and exercise |
| what are some characteristics of hyperinsulinism | it results when a diabetic injects too much insulin or there is a insulin producing tumor on the pancreas. the syptoms include decreased blood glucose levels |
| what are the characteristics of type one diabetes? | a persons insulin level is low because a persons immune system destroys pancreatic beta cells |
| what is emaciation? | extremely thin, wasting |
| whats gangrene? | death of tissue secondary to low oxygen levels |
| whats acromegaly? | enlarged and distorted |
| whats addisons disease? and what are some symptoms? | anorexia, nausea, vomiting, weakness, bronzed skin. caused by hyposecretion of glucocortocoids and aldosterone |
| what is cushings disease and what are some symptoms? | spindly arms, rounded face,hump on the back, hanging abdomen and characterized by breakdown nof muscle proteins and redistrubution of body fat |
| whats diaphoresis? | excessive sweating |
| whats a hypophysectomy? | removal of the pituitary gland |
| whats neuropathy? | disease of the nerves and its common with diabetes |
| whats cachexia? | state of malnutrition |
| what's anorexia? | loss of apetitie. symptoms include extreme weight loss |
| what's lacto mean? | milk |
| what's estrogen? | a female sex organ produced from the ovaries |
| compare and contrast how endocrine and exocrine glands work | endocrine secrete into intersential fluids and exocrine into ducts |
| what is progesterone? | female sex hormone that regulates menstrual cycle |
| what are t 3 and t 4? | the thyroid hormones with 3 and 4 atoms of iodine that work with metabolism |
| what is prl? | prolactin-initiates and maintains milk production by mammary glands. pih is prolactin inhibiting hormone which supresses release of prolacting prh is prolactin releasing hormone that stimulates the release of it |
| what does cortisol do? | breaks down proteins, forms glucose, breaks down triglycerides, has anti inflammatory effects, and depresses immune responses |
| whats tsh? | thyroid stimulating hormone that stimultes the synthesis of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland. trh is thyrotroponin releasing hormone that controls tsh secretion |
| what does insulin do? | helps glucose move into cells especially muscle fibers |
| what does glucagon do? | increases blood glucose levels when it falls below normal limits |
| describe the roll of target cells and receptor sites | although a given cell travels throughout the body in the blood, it only affects specific target cells, hormones influcence their target cells by chemically binding to specific receptors |
| whats adh? | antidiuretic hormone that causes kidneys to retain water decreasing urine volume |
| what are the locations for lipid soluable and water soluable hormones? | lipid- in the cell water soluable- other surfaces of the plasma membrane |
| what is hgh? | human growth hormone the most abundant anterior pituaty hormone that promotes secretion and syntheis of small protein hormones called insulin growth like factors |
| what are epinephrine and norepinephrine? | the main hormones of the adrenal medualle when secreated yield fight or flight |
| whats oxytocin? | it enhances contraction of smooth muscle cells in the wall of the uterus and stimulates milk ejection from mammary glands |
| whats fsh? | follicle stimulating hormone- lh is leutenizing hormone that triggers ovulation |
| what are 3 ways hormone secretions are controlled ? | signals from the nervous system other hormones and chemical changes in the blood |
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EmilyMcKelvey12
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