Histology
This serves as the preferred energy source for sperm.
What is Fructose?
5a reductase is the enzyme responsible for this conversion which may cause androgen-induced prostate hyperplasia.
Testosterone to Dihydrotestosterone (DHT)
The functions of this hormone include rescuing the corpus luteum, suppressing LH and FSH, and stimulating T secretion in a male fetus
What is Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)?
This common histopathologic feature of HPV infections has a hyperchromatic nucleus that is surrounded by a clear halo
What are Koilocytes?
This method of evading the host immune system is used by Neisseria gonorrhoeae
What is phase variation?
The function of this cell in the epididymis is to secrete glycoproteins, phagocytose defective sperm, and absorb testicular fluid
What are Principal Cells?
Ravioli, Ravioli, give me the Sertoli...cell products.
What are inhibin, androgen-binding protein, aromatase, and growth factors?
This multinucleated cell mass secretes TNF-a to dissociate endometrial cells and later invades endometrial veins and arteries to allow communication between maternal vessels & lacunae
What is the Syncytiotrophoblast?
The next contestant can come on down! This is the name for undescended testis.
What is Cryptorchidism?
This bacteria is not your pal; rather, it is the cause of Syphilis.
What is Treponema pallidum (spirochete)?
The function of this cell found in oviduct epithelium is to provide nutrition for oocytes
What are Secretory (peg) cells?
This stage of follicular development is when meiosis resumes
What is the Graafian follicle?
This hormone is responsible for contraction of myoepithelial cells allowing milk "let down"
What is Oxytocin?
Name a characteristic manifestation/lesion for each of the 3 stages of Syphilis
1: Hard chancre
2: Maculopapular rash, mucous patches
3: Dementia, aortic aneurysm, Granulomatous lesions, Gumma (can be w/perforation)
This obligate intracellular bacteria has a unique growth cycle in which the elementary body is the infectious agent and reticulate body is the noninfectious, replicating agent.
What is Chlamydia trachomatis?
List the stages of spermatogenesis (Bonus: name mitosis/meiosis (I or II), etc. for each)
-Spermatogonial (mitosis)
-Spermatocyte (Primary - meiosis I then Secondary - meiosis II)
-Spermatid (Round/Early - biochemical & morphological changes, then Late/Elongated)
-Spermatozoa (sperm)
Due to a lack of 17a-OH, steroidogenesis in these cells only produces progestins
What are Granulosa cells?
A deficiency in this hormone would increased myometrial contractility
What is progesterone?
Spread of malignant cells within the epithelium is the mechanism of this female reproductive tract malignancy. It manifests as red, scaly, crusted plaque on the skin, looking like an allergic reaction (inflammatory dermatosis)
What is Extramammary Paget Disease?
Haemophilis ducreyi is the causative agent of this infection that initially manifests with soft chancres.
Name the 3 phases of the menstrual cycle and the state of the endometrium for each
1: Follicular/proliferative: rebuilt by mitosis of cells in stratum basalis
2: Luteal/secretory: endometrial cells secrete glycogen
3: Menstrual: removed to level of stratum basalis
During the late follicular phase, Granulosa cells begin expressing this and producing progesins as a result.
What is LH?
Because it expresses 17a-OH and 17,20 Desmolase, this serves as the major source for synthesis of estrogens in the placenta
What is fetal adrenal?
The "high risk" strains of HPV (name at least 2 of the 4 Dr. Ojha mentioned)
What are Types 16, 18, 31, and 33?
These two drugs are effective in treating infection caused by Trichomonas vaginalis.
What are Metronidazole and Tinidazole?