DR CHIBOGU VTH 512

Question 1

What is Reproductive Hormones

Answer 1

This chemical messenger produced by endocrine glands that is crucial for the regulation of reproduction

Question 2

What are the functions of Reproductive Hormones

Answer 2

Responsible for development of reproduction organ
Responsible for control of cycle
Responsible for maintaining pregnancy
Responsible for lactation

Question 3

Location of production

Answer 3

Primarily produce by endocrine glands to the blood stream and

Target organs are organ with receptors of the hormones

Question 4

Reproductive endocrine glands

Answer 4

This are glands that release substance into the circulatory system to target tissue of the reproductive tract

Inducing the process that influence reproduction

Question 5

Examples of reproductive endocrine glands

Answer 5

Hypothalamus
Pituitary
Ovaries
Testies
Placenta
Uterus

Question 6

Reproductive Hormones

Answer 6

Estrogen
Progesterone
Inhibin
Pgf2 alpha
Testosterone
FSH
LH
GnRH

Question 7

What part if the brain is the hypothalamus

Answer 7

In the brain center just below the thalamus and above the pituitary gland

Question 8

What does the Hypothalamus produce
What does pituitary gland produce

Answer 8

Hypothalamus produce GnRH
PITUITARY GLAND produces gonadotropic hormones

Question 9

The ovary as a endocrine unit
What is the functional unit of the ovary

Answer 9

The follicles
Which is made up of Granulosa and theca cells

Question 10

What does Granulosa cell have receptors for? What does theca cell have receptors for ?

Answer 10

Granulosa — FSH

THECA CELL — LH

Question 11

What does Granulosa cell produce

What does theca cell produce

Answer 11

Granulosa cell produce Estrogen

Theca cell produced androgen which is diffuse in to Granulosa cell and converted to estrogen using AROMATASE

Question 12

What happens to the cells of the follicles after ovulation

Answer 12

Cells are rearranged and the whole structure give rise to Corpus luteum and produces progesterone

Question 13

Corpus luteum are leutinized they are able to produce

Answer 13

progesterone

Question 14

What tissues or ogan express receptors for estrogen or progesterone

Answer 14

Uterus
Mammary gland
PITUITARY GLAND.
The Brain

Question 15

When pregnancy does not occur what does the endometrium produce

Answer 15

PGF2 alpha
And cause the regression of corpus leutum
Luteolysis