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Which hormone stimulates milk production in mammals?

Glands that lack ducts and use the bloodstream to transport their products are called ________ glands

Which is the the first hormone isolated in 1902?

Metabolic rate in mammals is controlled by 

  1. Pancreas
  2. Liver
  3. Thyroid
  4. Pituitary

Islets of Langerhans are found in

  1. Liver
  2. Spleen
  3. Pancreas
  4. Pituitary

Oxytoxin stimulates the contraction of

  1. Lung
  2. Ovary
  3. Heart
  4. Uterus

Injury to adrenal cortex is not likely to affect the secretion of which one of the following?

  1. aldosterone
  2. cortisol
  3. Adrenaline
  4. both adrostenedione and dehydroepiandrosterone

Which gland disapear during old age?

Low Ca++ in the body fluid may be the cause of

  1. tetany
  2. gout
  3. anaemia
  4. angina pectoris

The contraction of gall bladder is due to

  1. gastrin
  2. secretin
  3. cholecystokinin
  4. enterogastrone

Which one of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?

  1. glucagon - beta cells (source)
  2. insulin – diabetes mellitus (disease)
  3. somatostatin – delta cells (source)
  4. corpus luteum –relaxin (secretion)

A health disorder that results from the deficiency of thyroxine in adults and characterized by i) a low metabolic rate ii) increase in body and iii) tendency to retain water in...

  1. cretinism
  2. myxodema
  3. simple goitre
  4. hypothyroidism

Diabetes mellitus is due to the deficiency of

  1. Insulin
  2. LH
  3. FSH
  4. Glucogon

Gastric secretion is stopped by hormone

  1. gastrin
  2. enterogastrone
  3. cholecystokinin
  4. pancreozymin

Which one of the following pair of organs includes only the endocrine glands?

  1. thymus and testes
  2. adrenal and ovary
  3. pancreas and parathyroid
  4. adrenal and parathyroid
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