Male and Female Reproductive Systems
This cell supports the production of sperm.
The coordination of FSH and LH secretion from the anterior pituitary is controlled by this hypothalamic hormone.
What is GnRH?
This term describes the early stages of development before the embryo implants in the uterus.
What is the blastocyst?
This gland produces estrogen and progesterone in the female reproductive system.
What is the ovary?
Site of fertilization.
What is the fallopian tube?
The gland that produces fructose to support sperm.
What are the seminal vesicles?
This hormone provides negative feedback on FSH secretion to help regulate sperm production.
What is inhibin?
This type of tissue develops from the endoderm.
Ova that are fertilized by in vitro fertilization are allowed to undergo cell division for approximately three to five days before they are transferred into a person and implantation takes place. This hormone is secreted by the implanted structure during the first trimester of pregnancy.
What is hCG?
This posterior pituitary hormone is released to nourish a developing infant.
What is prolactin?
Sperm gain motility and mature in this coiled tube attached to the testes.
What is the epididymis?
Testosterone exerts negative feedback on both the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary to regulate the secretion of these two hormones.
What are GnRH and LH?
The structure that forms from the trophoblast and provides nutrients to the developing embryo.
What is the placenta?
This hormone is produced by maturing follicle cells.
What is estrogen?
This hormone is released in response to pressure on the cervix.
What is oxytocin?
A radical hysterectomy is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of the uterus and cervix. Sometimes both ovaries and both Fallopian tubes are also removed, a procedure known as a hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO). These two hormones would be expected to be deficient in a woman who has had a radical hysterectomy with BSO.
What are estrogen and progesterone?
A male patient has high levels of testosterone but low sperm count. This hormone is most likely disrupted.
What is FSH?
This would be the consequence in the female reproductive system if a mutation prevents trophoblast cells from producing hCG.
This is the principal hormone that surges during the luteal phase.
What is progesterone?
Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a genetic disorder associated with abnormal growth in children. Mothers of children with BWS often had enlarged placentas during pregnancy. What hormone is produced by this structure?
What is progesterone?
This structure forms from the remnants of the follicle after ovulation and secretes progesterone.
What is the corpus luteum?
Typical development of male reproductive organs occurs around the 8th week due to the presence of this hormone.
What is testosterone?
How the placenta allows maternal-fetal exchange without direct blood mixing.
What are the lacental villi allowing diffusion of nutrients, gases, and wastes across membranes without mixing maternal and fetal blood.
FSH stimulates this process in the ovary during the follicular phase.
What is follicle maturation?
This structure is located in the fallopian tube and is the product of cleavage.
What is the morula?