Pituitary gland questions

Very short questions

  1. The pituitary gland has two important parts, what are their names and their parts

  2. Adenohypophysis is composed of:

  3. part of the anterior pituitary (adenohypophysis); superior extension of pars distalis

  4. separates pars distalis and pars nervosa

  5. largest and most important part of the adenohypophysis

  6. part of the neurohypophysis; axons traveling from hypothalamus to pars nervosa

  7. largest part of the neurohypophysis; made of nerve tissue, mainly axons whose cell bodies are located int he hypothalamus

  8. What are the cells of the pars distalis of the adenohypophysis?

  9. What are the types of Acidophils and where are they found?

  10. Somatotropes: what are they (describe the structure), where are they, how and what they synthesize?

  11. Mammotropes: what are they (describe the structure), where are they, how and what they synthesize?

  12. prolactin: secreted by........., located in............

  13. Gonadotropes are ______ of the _______

  14. What are the basophils of the pars distalis?

  15. Gonadotropes: what are they (describe the structure), where are they, how and what they synthesize?

  16. Corticotropes: what are they (describe the structure), where are they, how and what they synthesize?

  17. Thyrotropes: what are they (describe the structure), where are they, how and what they synthesize?

  18. Cells in pars distalis that stain weakly; represent stem cells and cells that are partially degranulated

  19. Most of the neurohypophysis consists of ______ mainly ______

  20. The most common cells in the pars nervosa are the ______ which are ______

  21. What type of capillaries are present in the pars nervosa of the neurohypophysis? why?

  22. located in the pars nervosa; are dilated axon terminals filled with secretory granules containing hormonesز

  23. When you see nuclei in the pars nervosa that is the________

  24. Axons in the neurohypophysis contain secretory granules with ______ made by neuron cell bodies in the _______

  25. The hormones vasopressin (ADH) and oxytocin are synthesized in the _______ and released from axons in the ________

  26. Oxytocin: -function-_____, synthesized and released from___________

  27. Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)/ vasopressin-function-synthesized and released from



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