Endocrinology Questions
Endocrine Control of Metabolism
1. What happens in the absorptive state and fasting state?
2. What are the effects of insulin?
3. Where and how do insulin and glucagon act?
4. Why is ketoacidosis a problem in individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus?
5. Draw a flowchart of the metabolic disturbances in T1DM.
Control of Blood Glucose and the Endocrine Pancreas
1. Where is insulin released from? How is it produced and released?
2. Recap the effects of insulin, what type of receptor is the insulin receptor?
3. Which GLUTs are where?
4. How does glucagon work
5. What are the incretins?
6. How did understanding of incretin action lead to development of new drug
treatments for DMT2?
7. What is the difference between DMT1 and DMT2?
8. How can we test for diabetes?
9. What are the treatments for diabetes?
10. What is the main priority of treatment?
Clinical Diabetes
1. How do we diagnose diabetes?
2. Difference between diabetes type 1 and type 2
3. How do we treat type 1 DM
4. How do we treat type 2 DM?
The Thyroid Gland:
1. What two broad classes of function can we split thyroid hormone into?
2. What are euthyroid, hyper and hypothyroid, explaining significance of primary
and secondary. Levels of hormones in the instances and examples of pathologies
causing it.
3. Anatomy of thyroid gland
4. Synthesis of thyroid hormone and its release, how is it transported in the
circulation
5. How thyroid hormone is regulated in a tissue specific manner
6. How thyroid hormone acts on its receptor
7. Thyroid hormone membrane channels, any possible diseases associated?
8. Grave’s disease and Hashimoto’s
Thyroid Gland and its disorders:
Endocrine Control of Metabolism
1. What happens in the absorptive state and fasting state?
2. What are the effects of insulin?
3. Where and how do insulin and glucagon act?
4. Why is ketoacidosis a problem in individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus?
5. Draw a flowchart of the metabolic disturbances in T1DM.
Control of Blood Glucose and the Endocrine Pancreas
1. Where is insulin released from? How is it produced and released?
2. Recap the effects of insulin, what type of receptor is the insulin receptor?
3. Which GLUTs are where?
4. How does glucagon work
5. What are the incretins?
6. How did understanding of incretin action lead to development of new drug
treatments for DMT2?
7. What is the difference between DMT1 and DMT2?
8. How can we test for diabetes?
9. What are the treatments for diabetes?
10. What is the main priority of treatment?
Clinical Diabetes
1. How do we diagnose diabetes?
2. Difference between diabetes type 1 and type 2
3. How do we treat type 1 DM
4. How do we treat type 2 DM?
The Thyroid Gland:
1. What two broad classes of function can we split thyroid hormone into?
2. What are euthyroid, hyper and hypothyroid, explaining significance of primary
and secondary. Levels of hormones in the instances and examples of pathologies
causing it.
3. Anatomy of thyroid gland
4. Synthesis of thyroid hormone and its release, how is it transported in the
circulation
5. How thyroid hormone is regulated in a tissue specific manner
6. How thyroid hormone acts on its receptor
7. Thyroid hormone membrane channels, any possible diseases associated?
8. Grave’s disease and Hashimoto’s
Thyroid Gland and its disorders:
