Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, 23rd Edition

CHAPTER 21Endocrine Functions of the Pancreas & Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism 329 physiologic role is unsettled, and ...

330 SECTION IVEndocrine & Reproductive Physiology sympathetic nervous system. Vagal stimulation also increases glucagon secr ...

CHAPTER 21Endocrine Functions of the Pancreas & Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism 331 pancreatic tumors (somatostatinoma ...

332 SECTION IVEndocrine & Reproductive Physiology Therefore, the response to an injection of epinephrine is an initial glyco ...

CHAPTER 21Endocrine Functions of the Pancreas & Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism 333 As noted above, the autonomic disc ...

334 SECTION IVEndocrine & Reproductive Physiology form advanced glycosylation end products (AGEs), which cross-link matrix p ...

CHAPTER 21Endocrine Functions of the Pancreas & Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism 335 increase insulin resistance. It is ...

336 SECTION IVEndocrine & Reproductive Physiology CHAPTER RESOURCES Bannerjee RK, et al: Regulation of fasted blood glucose ...

337 CHAPTER 22 The Adrenal Medulla & Adrenal Cortex OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, you should be able to: ■ Name the ...

338 SECTION IV Endocrine & Reproductive Physiology ADRENAL MORPHOLOGY The adrenal medulla, which constitutes 28% of the mass ...

CHAPTER 22 The Adrenal Medulla & Adrenal Cortex 339 The structures of norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine and the path ...

340 SECTION IV Endocrine & Reproductive Physiology 6 μ g of epinephrine, and 700 μ g of VMA are excreted per day. OTHER SUBS ...

CHAPTER 22 The Adrenal Medulla & Adrenal Cortex 341 regard, although in humans epinephrine usually evokes more anxiety and f ...

342 SECTION IV Endocrine & Reproductive Physiology plasma norepinephrine rarely exceeds the threshold for its car- diovascul ...

CHAPTER 22 The Adrenal Medulla & Adrenal Cortex 343 hydroxyl group at the 17 position in addition to the side chain are ofte ...

344 SECTION IV Endocrine & Reproductive Physiology STEROID BIOSYNTHESIS The major paths by which the naturally occurring adr ...

CHAPTER 22The Adrenal Medulla & Adrenal Cortex 345 names of the enzymes involved in adrenocortical steroid biosyn- thesis ar ...

346 SECTION IVEndocrine & Reproductive Physiology ENZYME DEFICIENCIES The consequences of inhibiting any of the enzyme syste ...

CHAPTER 22The Adrenal Medulla & Adrenal Cortex 347 exceeds 20 μg/dL. At higher plasma levels, binding to albumin increases, ...

348 SECTION IVEndocrine & Reproductive Physiology (Table 22–1), and the total plasma aldosterone level in humans is normally ...