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What stimulates the release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH, or vasopressin)?

Which hormone stimulates the synthesis of steroid hormones by the adrenal gland?

Use Graph 2 of the activity of Contractile cardiac muscle cells to answer the following question. Which of the LETTER labels shows the result of the opening of many voltage-gated K+ channels and the closing of Ca+2 channels?

Glucosuria and ketonuria are characteristic of:

Target cells make more receptors for a particular hormone when the level of that hormone declines in the blood stream. This process is known as:

Damage to the facial nerve would result in a loss of taste sensation from:

Taste is detected when chemicals bind receptors on the microvilli of:

Figure 12 illustrates the _________ method of hormonal control.

Which of the following is an example of static equilibrium?

Identify the cranial nerves NOT involved in carrying taste information from the tongue into the CNS.