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| What stimulates mammary gland developments and stimulates milk production by mammary glands? |
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| What is PRL thought to do in males? |
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| help regulate androgen production by making interstitial cells more sensitive to LH |
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| Prolactin production is inhibited by what? |
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| prolactin-inhiiting hormone (PIH) |
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| What is the prolactin-inhibiting hormone known as? |
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| the neurotransmitter dopamine |
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| What is another term for growth hormone (GH)? |
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| What stimulates cells growth and replication by increasing the rate of protein synthesis? |
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| How does the stimulation of growth by GH occur? |
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| as liver cells respond to presence of GH by synthesizing and releasing somatomedin |
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| insulin-like growth factors |
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| What stimulates stem cell division and differentiation of daughter cells in epithelia and connective tissue? |
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| Where does GH stimulates breakdown of triglycerides (glucose-sparing effect)? |
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| What happens in the liver to the growth hormones? |
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| GH stimulates breakdown of glycogen by liver cells and releases it into the bloodstream as glucose and blood glucose levels rise significantly |
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| What is it called when GH stimulates breakdown of glycogen by liver cells and releases it into bloodstream as glucose and blood glucose levels rise significantly? |
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| What is synthetic melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH)? |
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| What manufactures antiduretic hormone (ADH) and oxytocin (OT) and they move along axons in infundibulum to the posterior lobe of pituitary where they are stored and secreted due to nerve impulses from the hypothalamus? |
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| What is released in response to a rise in solute concentration i blood or fall in blood volume or blood pressure? |
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| antidiuretic hormone (ADH) |
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| What does ADH function to do? |
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| decrease the amount of water lost at kidneys |
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| What is ADH release inhibited by that increases fluid excretion following consumption? |
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| What occurs in several forms (all characterized by excessive urine production-polyuria)? |
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| What is one form of diabetes that occurs because the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland no longer releases adequate amounts of ADH? |
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| What may severe cases of diabetes insipidus lead to? |
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| 10L of fluid loss per day, dehydration, electrolyte imbalances (fatal without treatment) |
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| How do you treat diabetes insipidus? |
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| desmopressin (synthetic ADH) |
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