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The conversion of norepinephrine to epinephrine occurs in _______________ cells.
Inactivation of circulating catecholamines in the liver, kidneys and neural tissue is accomplished by these two enzymatic processes:
GH resistance is characterized by a defect in what signaling pathway?
What two hormones are somatomammotropin family derivates?
Hypersecretory Pituitary Disorders are caused by what kind of tumors?
Patients with hyperthyroidism may experience tachycardia and arrhythmias due to an upregulation of this receptor:
Which thyroid hormone has a relative increase in production when iodine is scarce?
In order to detect congenital hypothyroidism, the Ohio Newborn Screen measures this substance:
Transformation of norepinephrine to normetanephrine utilizes this enzyme:
What four hormones do the basophils of the anterior pituitary secrete?
The rate limiting step in the synthesis of catecholamines from tyrosine is conversion to DOPA by this enzyme:
What cells is growth hormone secreted from?
Transformation of metanephrine to vanillylmandelic acid and transformation of epinephrine to dihydroxymandelic acid utilize this enzyme:
When iodine is abundant, which of the thyroid hormones increases?
Elevated T4 and low TSH with the presence of exophthalmos indicated what disease?
This hormone can cause increased skin pigmentation because one of it's related hormones:
Transformation of epinephrine to metanephrine utilizes this enzyme:
Post-adolescent growth hormone secreting pituitary adenomas cause this condition:
Which two hormones are both pro-opiomelanocortin derivatives?
What are the two main peptide hormones are secreted by the neurons of the neurohypophysis (anterior pituitary)?