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Hormonal events leading to parturition are depicted in the scheme below: Near term, the levels of pituitary hormone Ⓑ increase, due to a drop in the levels of placental hormone Ⓐ, and stimulate uterine contractions.  IDENTIFY pituitary hormone Ⓑ from Table 10: (enter your number choice):

Which one of the following hormones would increase during primary hyperthyroidism?

ACTH is the major product of POMC processing in the pars intermedia.

Referring to the endocrinopathy in the CLINICAL CASE 2 above, a hypothalamic-pituitary-target organ diagram for a normal person is shown in the diagram below: Secreted and feedback hormonal levels can be represented by the following types of lines: ①  (thick line = high levels) ②  (thin line = normal levels) ③  (dotted line = low levels).  (2 pts) Which type of line would represent hormonal levels of Ⓐ for the clinical case?   Enter your number choice:  ()

MATCH the clinical symptom, galactorrhea, to the endocrinopathy from Table 1 that produces it: (enter your number choice):

MATCH the molecule (inhibin receptor) with the Cell Type from the table below: (enter your number choice):

MATCH the clinical symptom, precocious puberty, to the endocrinopathy from Table 1 that produces it: (enter your number choice):

Steroid hormones act through both nuclear and plasma membrane receptors.

Radioimmunoassays utilize antibodies that bind a hormone with high specificity.

With respect to the endocrinopathy in the CLINICAL CASE 1 above, a hypothalamic-pituitary-target organ diagram for a normal person is shown in the diagram below: Secreted and feedback hormonal levels can be represented by the following types of lines: ①  (thick line = high levels) ②  (thin line = normal levels) ③  (dotted line = low levels).  (2 pts) Which type of line would represent hormonal levels of Ⓑ for the clinical case? Enter your number choice:  ()