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Physiology Practice Test: The Endocrine System - Endocrine Glands and Hormone Actions
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Physiology Practice Test: The Endocrine System - Endocrine Glands and Hormone Actions
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1. Which of the following hormones regulates plasma calcium levels?
2. Which of the following is NOT a hormone released from the anterior pituitary?
3. What hormone is secreted by the heart?
4. When the response to two hormones is equal to the sum of their individual responses, the response is described as ________.
5. The parathyroid glands secrete calcitonin.
6. Which of the following correctly describes a pathway for secretion of a hormone under the control of tropic hormones?
7. The zona fasciculata secretes both androgens and glucocorticoids.
8. Growth hormone has direct action on target cells throughout the body.
9. What layer of the adrenal cortex secretes androgens?
10. The only non-peptide/protein tropic hormone is dopamine.
11. Which of the following tropic hormones is a catecholamine?
12. Regulation of insulin release by blood glucose levels is an example of humoral control of hormone secretion.
13. Which of the following hormones is NOT secreted by the endocrine region of the pancreas?
14. What hormone released by the posterior pituitary functions in uterine contraction and milk letdown in the breast?
15. What ensure(s) that blood levels of a specific releasing hormone are locally high in order to stimulate the pituitary?
16. A releasing hormone is a type of tropic hormone.
17. Which of the following hormones is NOT released from the adrenal gland?
18. Much of the insulin is removed from the blood as it passes through the liver.
19. A secondary endocrine organ is ________.
20. The skin is necessary for the activation of calcitonin.
21. Which of the following hormones is NOT secreted by gonads?
22. Secretion of hormones from the anterior pituitary is stimulated by ________ released from the ________.
23. The only non-peptide/protein tropic hormone is somatostatin.
24. The hypothalamus is connected to the posterior pituitary by the hypothalamic-pituitary portal system.
25. Kidney cells contain insulin-degrading enzyme.

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