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Endocrin - Basic Hormone Info

  1. Hormone: Melatonin

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Pineal Gland
    • 2) Brain, other tissues
    • 3) Circadian rhythms, immune functions, antioxidants
  2. Hormone: Tropic hormones

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Hypothalamus 
    • 2) Anterior Pituitary 
    • 3) Release/inhibit pituitary hormones
  3. Hormone: Oxytocin

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Posterior Pituitary
    • 2) Breast and uterus
    • 3) Milk ejection; labor and delivery; behavior
  4. Hormone: Vaspopressin

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Posterior Pituitary
    • 2) Kidney
    • 3) Water reabsorption
  5. Hormone: Prolactin

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Anterior Pituitary 
    • 2) Breast
    • 3) Milk production
  6. Hormone: Growth Hormone (somatotropin)

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Anterior Pituitary 
    • 2) Liver; Many Tissues
    • 3) Growth Factor secretion; Growth and metabolism
  7. Hormone: Corticotropin (ACTH)

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Anterior Pituitary 
    • 2) Adrenal Cortex
    • 3) Cortisol release
  8. Hormone: Thyrotropin (TSH)

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Anterior Pituitary
    • 2) Thyroid gland
    • 3) Thyroid hormone synthesis
  9. Hormone: Follicle-stimulating Hormone

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Anterior Pituitary
    • 2) Gonads
    • 3) Egg or sperm production; sex hormone production
  10. Hormone: Lutenizing Hormone

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Anterior Pituitary
    • 2) Gonads
    • 3) Sex hormone production; egg or sperm production
  11. Hormone: Thyroxine (T4) and Triiodothyronine (T3)

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1)  Thyroid gland
    • 2) Many tissues
    • 3) Metabolism, Growth, and development
  12. Hormone: Calcitonin

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Thyroid gland
    • 2) Bones
    • 3) Plasma calcium levels
  13. Hormone: Parathyroid Hormone 

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Parathyroid Gland
    • 2) Bone, Kidneys
    • 3) Regulates plasma Calcium and phosphate levels
  14. Hormone: Thymosin, Thymopoietin

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Thymus gland
    • 2) Lymphocytes
    • 3) Lymphocyte development
  15. Hormone: Atrial Natriuretic Peptide (ANP)

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Heart
    • 2) Kidneys
    • 3) Increases Sodium excretion
  16. Hormone: Angiotensinogen 

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Liver
    • 2) Adrenal cortex, blood vessels
    • 3) Aldosterone secretion; increase blood pressure
  17. Hormone: Insulin-like Growth Factor

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Liver
    • 2) Many tissues
    • 3) Growth
  18. Hormone: Gastrin, Cholecystokinin, Secretin, and others

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Stomach/GI
    • 2) GI Tract and pancreas
    • 3) assist digestion and absorption of nutrients
  19. Hormone: Insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, pancreatic polypeptide

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Pancrease
    • 2) Many tissues
    • 3) Metabolism of glucose and other nutrients
  20. Hormone: Aldosterone 

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Adrenal cortex
    • 2) Kidney
    • 3) Sodium and Potassium homeostasis
  21. Hormone: Cortisol

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Adrenal cortex
    • 2) Many tissues
    • 3) Stress response
  22. Hormone: Androgens

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Adrenal cortex
    • 2) Many tissues
    • 3) sex drive in females
  23. Hormone: Epinephrine, Norepinephrine 

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Adrenal medulla
    • 2) many tissues
    • 3) Flight-or-fight response
  24. Hormone: Erythropoietin 

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Kidney
    • 2) Bone marrow
    • 3) RBC development
  25. Hormone: 1,25 Dihydroxy-vitamin D3

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Kidney
    • 2) intestine
    • 3) increase calcium absorption
  26. Hormone: Vitamin D3

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) skin
    • 2) intermediate form of hormone
    • 3) precursor to 1,25 dihydroxy-vitamin D3
  27. Hormone: Androgens

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Testes
    • 2) many tissues
    • 3) sperm production, secondary male characterustics
  28. Hormone: Inhibin

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Testes/Ovaries
    • 2) Anterior pituitary
    • 3) inhibits FSH secretion
  29. Hormone: Estrogen, Progesterone

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Ovaries
    • 2) many tissues
    • 3) egg production, secondary female characteristics
  30. Hormone: Relaxin

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Overies
    • 2) uterine muscles during pregnancy
    • 3) relaxes muscles
  31. Hormone: Leptin

    1) Location
    2) Main Target
    3) Effect
    • 1) Adipose tissue
    • 2) Hypothalamus, other areas
    • 3) food intake, reproduction, metabolism
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Endocrin - Basic Hormone Info
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