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Specify the specific cell type that makes each hormone Growth hormone (GH): Prolactin (PRL): Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH): Luteinizing hormone (LH): Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH): Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH): List 2 intermediate pituitary protein or peptide hormones AND name the preprohormone(s) from which they are produced.

Solution

1. Hormones are the molecules that carry instruction from more than a dozen endocrine glands and tissues to cells over the body.

a. Growth hormone: It is a 191 amino acid, single chain polypeptide which is synthesised, stored and secreted by somatotrophin cells within the lateral wings of the anterior pituitary gland.

b. Prolactin: Prolactin cell are known as epsilon acidophil, lactotrophe, lactotrophic cell, mammotroph is the cell in the anterior pituitary gland which produces prolactin in response to hormonal signals .

c. Follicle stimulating hormone: In both males and females, FSH stimulates the maturation of germ cells. They are secreted by gonadotrophin cells.

d. Luteinising hormone: It is the hormone produced by gonadotrophic cells in the anterior pituatiry gland.

e. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone: Corticotrophic cells secrete Adrenocorticotrophic hormone.

f. Thyroid stimulating hormone: TSH is secreted from cells in the anterior pituatory called thyrotrophs.

2. Peptide hormones or protein hormones are hormones whose molecules are peptides or proteins respectively. Example: Prolactin, ACTH, vasopressin, etc.