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PLASMA CONCENTRATION OF HORMONE

PLASMA CONCENTRATION OF HORMONE. ENDO BLOCK 412. LECTURE - 2. Dr. Shaikh Mujeeb Ahmed Assistant Professor AlMaarefa College. Objectives. Explaining the factors influencing the plasma concentrations of hormones

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PLASMA CONCENTRATION OF HORMONE

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  1. PLASMA CONCENTRATION OF HORMONE ENDO BLOCK 412 LECTURE - 2 Dr. ShaikhMujeeb Ahmed Assistant Professor AlMaarefa College

  2. Objectives • Explaining the factors influencing the plasma concentrations of hormones • Recognizing the different types of hormone interactions and the significance of hormone concentrations • Explain the principles of positive and negative feedback control of hormone secretion. • Explain the effects of secretion, excretion, degradation, and volume of distribution on the concentration of a hormone in blood plasma. • List hormone measurements assays. • Identifying the most common causes of endocrine dysfunctions.

  3. The effective plasma conc. of a hormone • Depends on; • The hormone’s rate of secretion into the blood by the endocrine gland. • Its rate of metabolic activation or conversion. eg. T4 to T3 or conversion of small amount of testosterone to estrogen • For lipophilic hormones, its extent of binding to plasma proteins. eg. during pregnancy the level of thyroid hormone is high even with normal thyroid function. • Its rate of removal from the blood by metabolic inactivation and excretion in the urine.

  4. Cont…. • The effective plasma concentration of a hormone is normally regulated by changes in the rate of its secretion.

  5. Control of Hormone Secretion • Diurnal Rhythm • Day–night Example increase Prolactin secretion during night. • Circadian Rhythm • circadian (“around a day”) rhythm, which is characterized by repetitive oscillations in hormone levels that are very regular and cycle once every 24 hours. Example Cortisol • Sleep Wake Rhythm • Example Infants / Children increase GH during sleep increase ACTH and Cortisol during sleep

  6. Control of Hormone Secretion • InfradianRhythm • Ovarian steroids – Estrogen & Progesterone • Developmental Rhythm • Example Growth Rhythm • Ultradian Rhythm • moment to moment change Example insulin

  7. The effective plasma conc. of a hormone is regulated by • Negative Feedback control. • Negative feedback exists when the output of a system counteracts a change in input, maintaining a controlled variable within a narrow range around a set level

  8. The effective plasma conc. of a hormone is regulated by • DIURNAL (CIRCADIAN) RHYTHMS • The most common endocrine rhythm is the diurnal (“day–night”), or circadian (“around a day”) rhythm, which is characterized by repetitive oscillations in hormone levels that are very regular and cycle once every 24 hours.

  9. CIRCADIAN (“AROUND A DAY”) RHYTHM

  10. NEUROENDOCRINE REFLEX • Sudden increase in hormone secretion in response to a specific stimulus.

  11. Endocrine disorders Result mainly from • Hormone excess (hyper secretion)or • Deficiency (hypo secretion)or • Decreased target-cell responsiveness

  12. HYPOSECRETION • Primary hyposecretion occurs when an endocrine gland is secreting too little of its hormone because of an abnormality within that gland • Secondary hyposecretion takes place when an endocrine gland is normal but is secreting too little hormone because of a deficiency of its tropic hormone.

  13. HYPOSECRETION • Primary hyposecretion • genetic (inborn absence of an enzyme that catalyzes synthesis of the hormone, such as the inability to synthesize cortisol because of the lack of a specific enzyme in the adrenal cortex

  14. HYPOSECRETION • Dietary (lack of iodine, which is needed for synthesis of thyroid hormone); • Chemical or toxic (certain insecticide residues may destroy the adrenal cortex); • Immunologic (autoimmune antibodies may destroy the body’s own thyroid tissue); • Other disease processes (cancer or tuberculosis may coincidentally destroy endocrine glands); • Iatrogenic (physician induced, such as surgical removal of a cancerous thyroid gland); and • Idiopathic (meaning the cause is not known).

  15. Hyper secretion • Primary hyper secretion • When the defect lies within the gland itself • Secondary hyper secretion • Results from excessive stimulation from the outside • Tumor - • Immunological defect - excessive stimulation of the thyroid gland by an abnormal antibody that mimics the action of TSH, the thyroid tropic hormone. • Substance abuse - athletes of using certain steroids that increase muscle mass by promoting protein synthesis in muscle cells

  16. Target-cell (receptor)responsiveness • Down regulation of receptors • Its an important locally acting negative-feedback mechanism that prevents the target cells from overreacting to a prolonged high concentration of insulin; that is, the target cells are desensitized to insulin, helping blunt the effect of insulin hypersecretion.

  17. Target-cell (receptor)responsiveness • Up Regulation regulation of receptors • A mechanism in which a hormone increases the number or affinity of its receptors. Up-regulation may occur by increasing synthesis of new receptors, decreasing degradation of existing receptors, or activating receptors

  18. PERMISSIVENESS, SYNERGISM, AND ANTAGONISM • Permissiveness, • one hormone must be present in adequate amounts for the full exertion of another hormone’s effect. thyroid hormone increases the number of receptors for epinephrine in epinephrine’s target cells. • Synergism • occurs when the actions of several hormones are complementary and their combined effect is greater than the sum of their separate effects • Presence of FSH & Testosterone for effective spermatogenesis.

  19. Cont.. • Antagonism • occurs when one hormone causes the loss of another hormone’s receptors, reducing the effectiveness of the second hormone • Progesterone (a hormone secreted during pregnancy that decreases contractions of the uterus) inhibits uterine responsiveness to estrogen.

  20. Table 18-1, p. 665

  21. Hormone conc. measurement • Hormone conc. can be measured by highly specific and sensitive radioimmunoassay. • Serum sample with unknown conc. of hormone is mixed with known amount of antibodies to that hormone plus radioactively labeled hormone. • Both hormone & the radio labeled hormone compete for the antibodies.

  22. Hormone conc. measurement • Higher the conc. of unlabeled hormone in the sample, the less radio labeled hormone could bind with Ab. So more radiolabeled free hormone in solution. • A standard curve is prepared

  23. References • Human physiology, Lauralee Sherwood, seventh edition. • Text book physiology by Guyton &Hall,11th edition. • Physiology by Berne and Levy, sixth edition.

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