Endocrine hormones - Chapter 16 - A&P II

The hormone stored in the neurohypophysis whose primary role is to stimulate contractions during labor and cause milk ejection

What hormone targets kidney tubules to reabsorb more water to inhibit or prevent urine formation?

• Aldosterone

• Insulin

• Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)

• Parathyroid hormone (PTH)

What is the hormone that pregnancy tests detect?

• Luteinizing hormone (LH)

• Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)

• Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)

• Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)

TRUE or FALSE: Tropic hormones are hormones stimulated by other hormones

• True

• False

_______________ stimulates most cells to enlarge and divide, but major targets are bone and skeletal muscle

Stimulates GH release. Triggered by low blood GH or glucose, or high amino acid levels

• Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH)

• Growth hormone-inhibiting hormone (GHIH)

• Parathyroid hormone (PTH)

• Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)

Stimulates adrenal cortex to release corticosteroids.

• Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)

• Prolactin (PRL)

• Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)

• Progesterone

Stimulates production of gametes (egg or sperm)

• Luteinizing hormone (LH)

• Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)

• Estrogens

• Testosterone

Promotes production of gonadal hormones

• Luteinizing hormone (LH)

• Melatonin

• Progesterone

• Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)

Hormone that is released by the anterior pituitary that stimulates the thyroid to produce hormones