PHARMACOLOGY Quiz: Endocrine Drugs
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Nervous system: communicates locally by electrical impulses and neurotransmitters directed through neurons to other neurons or to specific target organs, such as muscle or glands, response time: generally within milliseconds. A syndrome of growth hormone (gh) excess in adults characterized by abnormal growth of tissues particularly tissue metabolic abnormalities, and cardiac connective dysfunction: central diabetes insipidus. A syndrome of polyuria, polydipsia, and hypernatremia caused by inadequate production of vasopressin: gigantism. A syndrome of gh excess in children and adolescents with open long bone epiphyses: gonadotropins. The 2 anterior pituitary hormones (luteinizing hormone [lh] and follicle-stimulating hormone [fsh]) that regulate reproduction in males and females: insulin-like growth factor-1 (igf-1) A growth factor that is the primary mediator of gh effects: prolactinoma. Pituitary tumor that secretes excessive amounts of prolactin and infertility and galactorrhea: tocolytic. Examples: magnesium sulfate; nifedipine; 2 agonists is associated with a syndrome of receptor antagonist atosiban; the oxytocin. Ptpn1, which encodes a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase (shp-2) chromosome.
