Endocrine System

What is the pituitary gland?

• the master gland
• helps you go to sleep
• influence metabolic rate
• decrease blood calcium

Function of pituitary gland:

• produces the highest number of different hormones
• senses the hormone levels in the blood
• increase bone calcium levels
• decrease blood calcium

What is the function of hypothalamus?

• the master gland
• controls all other endocrine glands
• senses the hormone levels in the blood
• helps you go to sleep

Pineal gland – 

• produces a hormone (melatonin) that helps you go to sleep
• produces a hormone that stimulates the immune response in children
• hormone that increases blood
• decreases bone calcium levels

A goiter is an enlargement of what gland?

• Pituitary
• Adrenal
• Mammary
• Thyroid

Which of the following anterior pituitary hormones stimulates growth of long bones?

• Prolactin
• Thyrotropin
• Adrenocorticotropic hormone
• Human growth hormone

Which of the following anterior pituitary hormones stimulates Cortisol production?

• Adrenocorticotropic hormone
• Insulin like growth factors
• Luteinizing hormone
• Prolactin

Which of the following hormones opposes the action of parathyroid hormone?

• Thyroid stimulating hormone
• Testosterone
• Insulin
• Calcitonin

The responses of the body to long term stress does NOT include which one of the following responses.

• Glycogenolysis
• Increased heart rate
• Gluconeogenesis
• Lipolysis

What is an Hormone?

• Substance produced in one part of an organism that affects another part of the organism
• Cells that has an receptor for a particular hormone
• Cells that pick up on a particular hormones through receptor
• Steroids that cause the abnormal actions in hormones