Th pituitary gland - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

GMS 6440 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Skeletal System - Answer- Organs: bones, cartilage, bone marrow Function: provide support and protection, store calcium and minerals, form blood cells Muscular System - Answer- Organs: muscles, tendons Function: provide movement, support and protect, generate heat and maintain body temperate Skeletal, Cardiac, Smooth Muscle - Answer- Skeletal - contractile proteins form alternating patterns of light and dark (striations). Voluntary move...

Which body system is responsible for conserving energy and body resources? correct answer: Parasympathetic nervous system. Gut making sure digestion and all the day to day functions are happening. (rest and digest). PNS Which body system responds to stress by preparing to defend itself? correct answer: Sympathetic nervous system. (fight or flight) SNS SNS correct answer: Mobilizing energy stores. Increases glucose, for muscles so we can run. Redistributes blood flow from the skin and gu...

MCAT Hormones Releasing and Inhibiting Factors - correct answer HYPOTHALAMUS -> ANTERIOR PITUITARY: modifies activities Growth Hormone (GH) - correct answer ANTERIOR PITUITARY: increases bone and muscle growth, increases cell turnover rate Prolactin - correct answer ANTERIOR PITUITARY -> MAMMARY GLAND: milk production Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) - correct answer ANTERIOR PITUITARY -> THYROID: increases synthesis and release of thyroid hormone (tropic) Adrenocorticotro...

Iron deficiency IDA - can arise inadequate dietary intake or excessive blood loss. The most common cause in developed countries is pregnancy and chronic blood loss. Early symptoms are nonspecific and include fatigue, weakness, shortness of breath, and pale earlobes, palms, and conjunctivae Hyperpituitarism: Primary Adenoma - are usually benign slow-growing tumors that arise from cells of the anterior pituitary. Local expansion may cause both neurologic and secretory defects. The adenomatous t...

Homeostasis The condition in which the body's internal environment remains relatively constant within physiological limits is Norepinephrine Chemical that acts both as a neurotransmitter in some locations, and as a hormone in other locations .Autocrines Hormones that act on the same cell that secretes them Prostaglandins Eicosanoids that act as local hormones in most body tissues Steroids Androgens, estrogens and progesterone are classified as what type of chemicals? Which is not a charact...

GMS 6440 Final All Answers Correct Skeletal System ️Organs: bones, cartilage, bone marrow Function: provide support and protection, store calcium and minerals, form blood cells Muscular System ️Organs: muscles, tendons Function: provide movement, support and protect, generate heat and maintain body temperate Skeletal, Cardiac, Smooth Muscle ️Skeletal - contractile proteins form alternating patterns of light and dark (striations). Voluntary movement. Cardiac - involuntary. Ri...

NU 621 Exam Questions With Correct Answers Latest 2023/2024 (GRADED A+). TSI functions as an agonist for TSH, because it functions equal to or better than natural TSH in stimulating the release of TH from the thyroid gland. Select one: a. True b. False Feedback The correct answer is: True. Q 5 Question 5 The following three questions pertain to Case 4.B: Type 1 Diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is most likely caused by Select one: a. Genetic changes b. Environmental trigger like vi...

GMS-/2025 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS GMS-/2025 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 3 components of endocrine system - gland, hormone, target organ/cell accretion - synthesis at site of resorption to remove calcium and phosphate from blood acidophils - somatotrophs, lactotrophs acute regulation of EPI/NE - increased sympathetic activity increases TH, so you get increased EPI/NE (no negative feedback because another result is increased secretio...

Skeletal System - ANSWER-Organs: bones, cartilage, bone marrow Function: provide support and protection, store calcium and minerals, form blood cells Muscular System - ANSWER-Organs: muscles, tendons Function: provide movement, support and protect, generate heat and maintain body temperate Skeletal, Cardiac, Smooth Muscle - ANSWER-Skeletal - contractile proteins form alternating patterns of light and dark (striations). Voluntary movement. Cardiac - involuntary. Rich in capillaries, con...

BIO 202 Exam 1 Endocrine system Questions And Answers 100% Correct! Chemical messengers secreted into the blood stream, act on cells far away - ANSWER-Hormones Released by nerves to affect cells - ANSWER-Neurotransmitters What are the functions of the Thyroid Hormone (TH)? - ANSWER-1. Controls metabolic rate 2. Alertness 3. Bone growth 4. Growth of skin, hair, etc. 5. Controls fetal nervous system This hormone feeds back to the pituitary to secrete growth hormones. - ANSWER-Thy...