BIL 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Corticosterone, Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Blood Sugar
22 Apr 2017
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Insulin produces as a preprohormone (preproinsulin: pancreas. Receptors for ldls so they can take up cholesterol and generate the necessary hormones. Once taken in they cleave that chain and create pregnenolone. Concentration of steroid horomone at any given time is dependent on rates of production and. Made up of 2 parts: anterior (front) adenohypophysis, hypo = under, physis = growth, adeno referring to a gland, produces hormones, neurosecretory cells. Tropin downstream (cortex of adrenal gland) Median eminence what connects the anterior pituitary to hypothalamus: posterior (back) neurohypophysis, referring to nervous under growth, made up of bundles of axons whose cell bodies are housed in hypothalamus in the brain. Integrate and generate action potentials which generates release of hormones in this part of pituitary: pars nervosa where the axons release their product. Can be released into the blood stream. Vasopressin or antidirutic (adh) regulates water levels. G about the size of a pea.
