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BrownTown3

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What are glucocorticoids?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is beta-endorphin and what is its function?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) stimulates the adrenal cortex to release glucocorticoids that play an important role in the fight-or-flight response. Glucocorticoids are a family of steroid compounds that were so named because of their effect of raising glucose levels in the bloodstream. The primary glucocorticoid secreted by the adrenal cortex is cortisol.

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Beta-endorphin is a natural opiate that has strong analgesic (pain relieving) properties. In an imminent life threatening struggle with a predator or competitor, pain from acute injury could debilitate a person and prevent that person from escaping the threat. Therefore, it is more adaptive for a person's survival to have systems that temporarily inhibit pain until the person is safe from imminent threat. Beta-endorphin serves this purpose.




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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
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