What percentage of body weight does blood account for? - Answers 7-9%
Plasma contains - Answers All answers are correct
Glucagon - Answers Accelerates liver gylcongenolysis
Second messengers are important in the functioning of - Answers Nonsteriod hormones
Thyroid stimulation hormones - Answers Is secreted by adenohypophysis and stimulates the release
of thyroid hormone
Your diet must contain sufficient amounts of this fot T4 to be produced - Answers Iodine
This endocrine gland is not in the brain - Answers The thymus gland
In order for blood to clot, what plasma proteins are necessary - Answers Fibrinogen and prothrombin
The red blood cell has no nucleus - Answers True
Leukopenia - Answers Is characteristic of people with AIDS
Exocrine glands do not - Answers stimulate receptors in target cells
The endocrine system consists of glands that - Answers release chemicals carried by the blood
Plasma - Answers carries almost all of the food to the cells
This hormone has the opposite function of calcitonin is - Answers parathyroid hormone
The thyroid gland produces - Answers all answers are correct
This is another term for platelets - Answers thrombocytes
Myeloid tissue is - Answers tissue called red bone marrow and impor- tant in formation of blood cells
Someone with a thinner than normal buffy coat may have - Answers leucopenia
Oxytocin - Answers all answers are correct
Where can red bone marrow be found in great amounts in the body - Answers sternum and hipbone
Basophils and lymphocytes have this characteristic in common - Answers both are leukocytes
Insulin - Answers all answers are correct
This can cause aplastic anemia - Answers damage to blood forming elements in the bone marrow
This white blood cell is a phagocyte - Answers monocyte
The parathyroid horomone - Answers has the opposite effect of calci- tonin
Cortisol - Answers stimulates gluconeogenesis
This blood cell has the longest circulation life span - Answers agranular white blood cell
This is released by the posterior pituitary gland - Answers ADH
What is the final step in the blood clotting process - Answers thrombin reacts with fibrinogen to form
fibrin
Globulins - Answers assist in fighting infection
Albumin - Answers thickens the blood
This blood type has antigen A on the cell and anti - B antibody in the plasma - Answers type A
The pineal gland - Answers sometimes called the " third is eye "
This is not a class of prostaglandins - Answers PGB
What is the approximate number of red blood cells in a cubic millimeter of blood - Answers 5,000,000
This must be present for thrombin to form - Answers calcium
The thymus gland - Answers produces thymosin
What is most effected by aldosterone - Answers kidney
Aldosterone - Answers increases blood sodium levels
The corpus luteum secretes mostly - Answers progesterone but some es- trogen
This can cause anemia - Answers both too few red blood cells and too little hemoglobin in blood cells
Nonsteroid hormones can be made of - Answers proteins
What is a thrombus - Answers a clot that stays where formed
This white blood cell secretes heparin - Answers Basophils
What is the most abundant type of sloute in blood plasma - Answers plasma proteins
What hormone is secreted by the ovary - Answers estrogen
Hormones are not a major regulator of - Answers voluntary muscle movement
ADH - Answers increases the amount of water re- absorbed by the kidney
What blood type is " universal donor - Answers type O
The G protein - Answers works with nonsteroid hormones