Does anyone have a way to remember the hormones of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland?

Question

Does anyone have a way to remember the hormones of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland?

Answer 1

medicine and anatomy are never easy, but acronyms can help; however always think in terms of cause and effect. and ask WHY-- if you can't explain that, why bother?

the ant.pit. responds in various ways to chemicals released by the hypothalamus (try to think in terms of arrows > < and + and  -...

2sub categories for subs rlsed by antpit.

1)tropic (specific  endocrine targets)

TSH- growth/function of thyroid gland. T3 & T4

ACTH-growth/fx of adreal cortex. cortisol

LH-progesterone via copr luteum. or. ttn by leygid cells testes

FSH- follicular devel&est secretion. stim spermatogenesis

2) non-tropic (non-specific, non-endocrine targets)

GH-for body growth. adipose breakdown, and glc preservation

PL- for breast development/milk secretion (note if dopamine is decreased, the PL level will increase-- inveresely proportional

tropic-TALF

nontropic-GP

whatever words you want to make to remember this is fine, funny, perverted, the stranger- the better, as far as what worked for me