BMS 430 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Version 2025

BMS 430 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Version 2025 GH produced by what? - Answers somatotrophs what inhibits GH - Answers glucose and mental stress what increases GH - Answers physical stress and exercise what happens when you have too much GH? - Answers Giantism: prior to puberty Acromegaly: after puberty What happens when you have too little GH? - Answers dwarfism: individuals do not produce GHRH pygmies: not alot of igf-1 and no GH receptor on liver what does GH do? - Answers increase in size, cell division, and protein uptake Hypothalamic control of GH - Answers + GHRH (somatocrinin) - GHIH (somatostatin) Prolactin produced by what? - Answers lactotrophs what is prolactin responsible for? - Answers initiation of lactation, maintaining lactation (acts differently in different species) What inhibits prolactin? - Answers Progesterone inhibits large quantities of prolactin What is the hypothalamic control on prolactin? - Answers negative control by dopamine what maintains prolactin? - Answers suckling what happens when you have too much prolactin? - Answers probably pituitary tumor causing spontaneous lactation in men and women what happens when you have too little prolactin? - Answers sheehan's no prolactin is produced and no lactation occurs what produces TSH? - Answers thyrotrophs what is TSH/ TH responsible for? - Answers increase or decrease in metabolism, follows circadian rhythm What increases TSH - Answers feasting, exercise, and pregnancy what decreases TSH - Answers fasting what happens when you have too much TH - Answers Graves disease: increase in metabolism, more energy, higher temperature what happens when you have too little TH - Answers Cretinism in fetus: mental retardation and nervous system issues