Goodman intro to endocrine
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3 types of hormones
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Peptides and proteins
Amino acid derivatives
Catecholamines (adrenal medulla, NE and E)
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Thyroid Hormones
Steroids
- Androgen
- Male traits, produced in gonads and adrenal cortex
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Cholesterol to pregnenoione
- rate limiting step. Cholesterol side chain cleavage
- Estrogen
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Female traits, produced in gonads and adrenal cortex
- Glucocorticoid
- Helps control glucose, produced only in adrenal cortex
- Mineraocorticoid
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Regulates Na, produced only in adrenal cortex
- Progesterone
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Female traits
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Source of cholesterol
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De novo synth.
Taken up from blood (LDL). majority.