BB H 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gluconeogenesis, Blood Sugar, Homeostasis
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Bbh 432 (5) : physiology of stress ii. The acute stress response: delivers resources needed for physical action. Robert sapolsky on stress and health: stress-related disease emerges out of the fact that we often activate a physiological system that has evolved for responding to acute emergencies, but we turn it on for months on end. Endocrine system primer (how do hormones work?: cascade of secretion responses, brain to peripheral glands (hypothalamus > pituitary > peripheral gland, hypothalamus, secretes, stimulates pituitary releasing factors, pituitary intermediate hormones, secretes. The hypothalamus via the pituitary portal system of the. Anatomy ( the key elements of the hpa axis) (look at slide 12: the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus contains neurons that synthesize and secrete vasopressin and crh, pituitary. Vii: crh and vasopressin are released at the median eminence, they are transported to be the ant. Net effect = increase energy (glucose) available to body.
