Anna goes to the doctor for a full check-up. The doctor does a hormone screen on

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Anna goes to the doctor for a full check-up. The doctor does a hormone screen on Anna just to be sure everything is in balance. The doctor notices that Anna has high levels of parathyroid hormone (which increases the levels of Ca2+ in Anna's blood). To fix this problem the doctor prescribes to Anna a hormone that is to parathyroid hormone. This hormone will have an opposite effect brining Anna's blood Ca2+ levels back to normal. The doctor tells Anna to make a follow-up appointment so that they can figure out why she hacd hormone in the first place. Use the words on the two slides previous to the one containing this thought question _2secretion of parathyroid

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1. Antagonistic

2. Hypersecretion

Antagonistic means opposite effect. Hormone which the doctor prescribed had an antagonistic effect to bring down the level of calcium ion.

High level of hormone secretion means hypersecretion, low of hormone secretion means hyposecretion.

In this case doctor wanted to check the reason for high level of hormone secretion.

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