Pituitary Flashcards

Anterior Lobe

ACTH ----adrenocorticotropic
(stimulates growth and secreation of the cortex of teh adrenal gland)

TSH----throtropin

stimulates growth and secreationof the throid gland

GH-----somatotropin

growth hormone

FSH------follicle stimulating

bonds sexual partners for sexual organs

LH-----luteinizing(female)

to much vaginal secreation

ICSH------interstitial cell stimulating (male)

stimulates testies to create testerone

LTH---------prolactin

stimulates secreation of breast milk

MSH-----melanocyte stimulation

stimulates productino of melanine pigment

Posterior Lobe

ADH-vasopressin

Oxytocin (pitocin)


andtidiuretic
hormone, promotes reabosorption of water in kidneys and constricts
blood vessels

Causes contraction of
uterus during childbirth

Thyroid

Thyroxine and tri-iodothyronine

Thryocalcitonin (calcitionin)


increases metabolic
rate; stimulates physical and mental growth; regulates metabolism

accelerates absorbtion
of calcium by bones and lowers blood pressure

adrenal

cortex and medulla

pancreas

insulin and glucagon

ovaries

estrogens and progesterone

testes

testerone

thymus

thymosin

pineal

melatonin and adreanoglomentrophin serotonin

placenta

estrogen, chroninc gonadotropin, and progesterone