Question: Which hormone aids in water resorption?

-stimulates the kidney tubules to reabsorb water.

Answer: antidiuretic hormone

Question: alter cell activity

Answer:

Question: What tropic hormone stimulates cortisol from the adrenal gland?

-Stress and ACTH are the main stimuli for cortisol

Answer: adrenocorticotropic hormone

Question: What is the function of the ventral hypothalamic neurons?

-Yes, neurohormones from the ventral hypothalamic neurons, known as releasing (RH) and inhibiting (IH) hormones, control the release of anterior pituitary hormones such as adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and TSH.

Answer: control secretion of thyroid stimulating hormone

Question: Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are intermediary hormones stimulated by which of the following hormones?

Answer: growth hormone

Question: Which of the following hormones is regulated by a neuroendocrine (“letdown”) reflex?

Answer: oxytocin

Question: Where is antidiuretic hormone (ADH), also known as vasopressin, synthesized?

-It is stored in the posterior pituitary in axon terminals

Answer: hypothalamus

Question: What is the most important regulatory factor controlling the circulating levels of thyroid hormone?

Answer: negative feedback

Question: __________ is the situation when one hormone exaggerates the effects of another hormone at the target cell?

Answer: Synergism

Question: Which of the following is NOT characteristic of water-soluble hormones?

Answer: intracellular receptors