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PhysioEx Lab Report
Exercise 4: Endocrine System Physiology
Activity 1: Metabolism and Thyroid Hormone
Name: Daelyn Glasgow- Thomas
Date: 17 January 2020
Session ID: session-a79f16e6-1e91-028a-f877-ee9b65 ff 3d13
Pre-lab Quiz Results
You scored 83% by answering 5 out of 6 questions correctly.
Experiment Results
Predict Questions
Which of the following statements about metabolism is false 1 ?
Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is 3
An injection of TSH to an otherwise normal animal will cause which of the following? 4
Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) is 5
Which of the following statements is true? 6

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Stop & Think Questions
Predict Question 1: Make a prediction about the basal metabolic rate (BMR) of the
remaining rats compared with the BMR of the normal rat you just measured.
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Predict Question 2: What do you think will happen after you inject thyroxine into the
three rats?
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Predict Question 3: What do you think will happen after you inject TSH into the three
rats?
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Predict Question 4: Propylthiouracil (PTU) is a drug that inhibits the production of
thyroxine by blocking the attachment of iodine to tyrosine residues in the follicle cells
of the thyroid gland (iodinated tyrosines are linked together to form thyroxine). What
do you think will happen after you inject PTU into the three rats?
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