Hubs 1406 (Hormones) Test with Right
Answers Grade A+
What does thyroid hormone do? - ✅✅ Increases BMR, essential for normal
development of all tissues
What is hyperthyroidism? - ✅✅ Increased production of TH.
Symptoms of hyperthyroidism include? - ✅✅ Weight loss, heat intolerance,
nervous and agitated, high heart rate, bulging eyes
Hypothyroidism is? - ✅✅ Decreased production of TH.
Symptoms of hypothyroidism are? - ✅✅ Weight gain, very respondent to cold,
lethargy, slow heart rate. Dangerous in children.
Parathyroid Hormone - ✅✅ Increases plasma level of calcium which is secreted
by the parathyroid gland
Insulin - ✅✅ Decreases blood glucose levels by stimulating uptake and use of
glucose by cells. Produced by pancreas
Glucagon - ✅✅ Increases blood glucose levels by increasing release of glucose
from storage sites into the blood. Produced by pancreas
Cortisol allows the body to maintain a stress response by? - ✅✅ Increasing
blood glucose and blood lipids, suppressing the immune response and inhibiting
growth and repair
Where is cortisol produced? - ✅✅ by adrenal cortex
Increased cortisol hormone leads to? - ✅✅ Diabetes like state, strange fat
deposition, weight gain, more vulnerable to infection, thinning of tissue
Decreased cortisol hormone leads to? - ✅✅ Unable to respond to stress as well,
unable to supply nutrients to cell, weight loss, hypoglycemia
Answers Grade A+
What does thyroid hormone do? - ✅✅ Increases BMR, essential for normal
development of all tissues
What is hyperthyroidism? - ✅✅ Increased production of TH.
Symptoms of hyperthyroidism include? - ✅✅ Weight loss, heat intolerance,
nervous and agitated, high heart rate, bulging eyes
Hypothyroidism is? - ✅✅ Decreased production of TH.
Symptoms of hypothyroidism are? - ✅✅ Weight gain, very respondent to cold,
lethargy, slow heart rate. Dangerous in children.
Parathyroid Hormone - ✅✅ Increases plasma level of calcium which is secreted
by the parathyroid gland
Insulin - ✅✅ Decreases blood glucose levels by stimulating uptake and use of
glucose by cells. Produced by pancreas
Glucagon - ✅✅ Increases blood glucose levels by increasing release of glucose
from storage sites into the blood. Produced by pancreas
Cortisol allows the body to maintain a stress response by? - ✅✅ Increasing
blood glucose and blood lipids, suppressing the immune response and inhibiting
growth and repair
Where is cortisol produced? - ✅✅ by adrenal cortex
Increased cortisol hormone leads to? - ✅✅ Diabetes like state, strange fat
deposition, weight gain, more vulnerable to infection, thinning of tissue
Decreased cortisol hormone leads to? - ✅✅ Unable to respond to stress as well,
unable to supply nutrients to cell, weight loss, hypoglycemia
