KROK 1 2017 – Question 175 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
Corticosteroid hormones regulate the adaptation processes of the body as a whole to environmental changes and ensure the maintenance of internal homeostasis. What hormone activates the hypothalamopituitary-adrenal axis?
- A. Somatostatin
- B. Thyroliberin
- C. Corticoliberin
- D. Somatoliberin
- E. Corticostatin
Hint
Trace the cascade from hypothalamus to anterior pituitary to adrenal cortex and ask which hypothalamic hormone is the first stimulating signal.
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