• For each question, please read the corresponding section in your text as well as one other source [there is an A&P texts in the library on open reserve], citing them at the end of each question [i.e. question #1 your answer here. Citations: A& P by Stephen, Seeley and Tate & Nutrition Now by Brown question # 2 your answer here. Citations: A& P by Stephen, Seeley and Tate & Human Physiology by Guyton, question #3 etc. You get the idea; I should be seeing the same textbook for each question. ] Your citations may include websites, or journal articles. If you use a journal article, include FULL bibliography.

• All answers must be typed and include the original question at the beginning.

• You must follow these directions if you want to achieve upper division credit

Most homeostatic functions are maintained by a balance between hormones with antagonistic effects.Describe how the thyroid and parathyroid glands regulate calcium levels in the blood.

A friend tells you that he never eats breakfast, except for a latte on his way to class, because when he does he gets hungry by 10 am.If he doesn’t eat breakfast, he can last until lunchtime without getting hungry.Knowing what you do about the nervous and endocrine systems, explain to your friend why this happens, and why he should consider eating breakfast.

Mostly everyone has heard of diabetes mellitus, but few have knowledge about diabetes insipidus.

a)Define both types of diabetes, and any subdivisions of them.

b)Identify what gland/hormone is the ‘culprit’ in each type of diabetes.

c)Briefly give some similarities and some differences in the disease process of each [outside of the answers you have already provided]

The endocrine section of your textbook gives a lot of ‘print’ the hypothalamus and pituitary gland.Not a lot is noted about the pineal gland.What are this gland’s main functions and what hormones are used/secreted to achieve them?