answer

watching

views

26 Jul 2019

1. What are the two classic divisions of the endocrine system?

2. What are some non-classical examples of organs with hormone function?

3. Based on their chemical composition, there are several types of hormones. List the different types and give examples of each.

4. What are pheromones?

5. Discuss how hormones elicit an action on a target cell. What are the differences in how the various types of hormone act?

answer

watching

100

views

For unlimited access to Homework Help, a Homework+ subscription is required.

You have 0 free answers left.
Get unlimited access to 3.8 million step-by-step answers.

Get unlimited access

Already have an account? Log in

Collen VonLv2

28 Jul 2019

Unlock all answers

Get 1 free homework help answer.

Already have an account? Log in

Related questions

1. Be able to define the following terms: releasing hormone,inhibiting hornone, trooic hormone, nontropic hormones,neurosecretory cells.

2. What are hormones?

3. What are two specific differences between the endocrine andnervous systems?

4. What are the four different types of cell signaling?

5. What are the three types of hormonal control pathways? Givean example of each.

6. What is local regulator?

7. What type of feedback is a common feature of pathways thatcontrol homeostasis?

8. What are the three major classes of molecules that functionas hormones? Which are water-souble and which are lipid-souble?

9. Signaling by a hormone involves three key events. What arethey?

10. What is the correlation between solubility of a hormone andthe location of its receptors?

11. In addition to receptor location, water-soluble andlipid-soluble hormones also exhibit additional differences in theirresponse pathways. What are these differences?

12. What is signal transduction pathway?

13. Why can the same hormone have different effects on differentbody tissues?

14. Liver cells and the blood vessels of skeletal muscle cellshave identical surface receptors for epinephrine, yet the responeof these two cells types is dramatically different. Explain howthis is possible.

15. In the "fight or fight response" the release of epinephrinefrom the adrenal medulla cause skeletal muscle blood vessels todilate while simultaneously constricting blood vessels of theintestine. Explain how this is possible.

16. List the three types of local regulators discussed in classand explain their function.

ochremule554

1. What is homeostasis? help me to understand homeostasis ?

2. What types of feedback are used in the body? Find examples

3. What are the differences between the endocrine and nervous systems?

4. Know the difference between lipid soluble and water soluble hormones and how they elicit their effects on target cells.

5. What are potential mechanisms that can lead to endocrine dysfunctions?

6. What are the major differences between the anterior and posterior pituitary?

7. What are: endocrine? Paracrine? Autocrine?
8. How is oxygen transported in the blood?
9. What is the physiological response to hypoxia?
10. What is osmolarity? Hemopoiesis?
11. Blood typing: who can donors donate to and who can receivers receive from? Know the Rh factor and how it relates to Rh antibodies.
12. What is the difference between cardiac and skeletal muscle cells?
13. Know about the cardiac conduction cycle.
14. Know how the valves function and the direction of blood flow through the heart

COLLEGE COURSE: Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Please answer/provide information/define concept/terms etc... PLEASE ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS:

HPA axis: What is the principal role/function of this endocrine cascade? What brain structures and glands are involved in this system? What governs its functioning? What other brain structures help regulate HPA activity? What hormones are involved in the HPA cascade and in what order? What is the role of the HPA axis in psychiatric illness?

Glucocorticoid binding. What is the difference between MRs and GRs?

What is the role of gonadal hormones in the biological stress response?

What are the roles of vasopressin and oxytocin in cognition?

Define stress (and be familiar with different models/definitions of stress), the biological basis of stress response and related concepts, and pathological effects of stress

What constitutes a stressor? What are 4-5 different types of stressors?

How do stress and gonadal hormones affect learning and memory? What brain structures are involved and via what mechanisms?

Experimental paradigms demonstrating hormone effects on spatial memory

What are the components of learning? What is extinction? Habituation?

Hans Selye

What is the psychosis prodrome? How is it characterized/core symptoms? How does the psychosis prodrome differ from acute/chronic psychosis? What are some possible mechanisms of intervention/prevention?

What are some characteristics of epinephrine?

12. Hormonal theories that account for psychiatric disorders such as postpartum depression

13. What is the role of glucose metabolism in learning and memory?

14. Relationships among hormones in psychiatric illness, with consideration of treatment effects (perimenstrual syndrome, depression, seasonal affective disorder, schizophrenia)

15. What is bright light therapy for seasonal affective disorder? What time of day is it most effectively used?

16.How do cognitive enhancing agents exert their effect?

17. What is ACTH? What are its effects on cognition?

18.Differential effects of stress and associated hormones on behavior (and neuroanatomic structure) during prenatal vs. pubertal vs. adult stages