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NR293 Pharmacology - Exam 1



1. What is the main goal of the endocrine system?

Answer For PHYSIOLOGIC STABIL- ITY (HOMEOSTASIS)

- Every cell and organ in the body is influenced by this system

2. What are hormones?

Answer The "CHEMICAL LANGUAGE" of the endocrine system

- Natural substances

- Secreted into the bloodstream and travels through the blood to the site of action

3. Hypothalamus

Answer Part of the CNS

- MASTER

- THERMOSTAT

4. Pituitary Gland

Answer Has two lobes

- Anterior pituitary (adenohypohysis)

- Posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis)





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They govern all bodily functions (hormones and negative feedback loop)

5. Negative Feedback Loop

Answer Activity of the endocrine system regulated by this system of surveillance and

signaling based on the body's needs

- Regulates hormone secretion

6. What are the anterior pituitary drugs?

Answer Cosyntopin Somatopin

Octreotide

7. What are the posterior pituitary drugs?

Answer Vasopressin Desmopressin

8. Cosyntopin (Cortosyn)

Answer STIMULATES RELEASE OF CORTISOL FROM THE ADRENAL CORTEX

- Anti-inflammatory

- DIAGNOSIS OF ADRENOCORTICAL INSUFFICIENCY

- Wasting associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection

- Promotes renal retention of SODIUM, WHICH CAN RESULT IN EDEMA AND

HYPERTENSION

9. Somatropin & Somatem





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Answer Recombinantly made GROWTH HORMONE (GH)

- Stimulates skeletal growth in patients with deficient GH, such as HYPOPITUITARY DWARFISM

10. Octreotide (Sandostatin)

Answer CARCINOID TUMORS SECRETE VIP (vasoactive intestinal polypeptide)

- VIP causes PROFUSE, WATERY DIARRHEA

- Octreotide reduces diarrhea, flushing, and life-threatening HYPOTENSION that may occur

with a CARCINOID CRISIS

11. Vasopressin & Desmopressin

Answer Mimic the action of ANTIDIURETIC HOR- MONE









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- Increase WATER REABSORPTION in the distal tubules and collecting ducts of nephrons that

concentrate urine

- REDUCES WATER EXCRETION by up to 90%

- Used in treatment with DIABETES INSIPIDUS

12. Indications for Vasopressin

Answer ADH - Diabetes Insipidus

- POTENT VASOCONSTRICTOR

- HYPOTENSIVE EMERGENCIES (Vasodilatory Shock - Septic Shock)

- ADVANCES CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT (ACLS) - PULSELESS CARDIAC AR- REST

- Used to STOP BLEEDING OF ESOPHAGEAL VARICES

13. Indications for Desmopressin

Answer DDVAP

- Dose-dependent increase in the plasma levels of

- Factor VIII (antihemophilic factor)

- Von Willebrand factor

- Tissue plasminogen activator (HELPS WITH CLOTTING)

- Management of NOCTURNAL ENURESIS







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