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What two types of cells are found in the testes?

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  1. Leydig cells

2. Sertoli cells

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What kind of cells are leydig cells and what do they secrete?

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  • they are interstitial cells (major endocrine tissue)

- they secrete testosterone

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Where are sertoli cells located and what are their functions?

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  • part of seminiferous tubules
    1. spermatogenesis
    2. form blood-testis barrier
    3. secrete androgen-binding protein
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What does androgen-binding protein do?

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facilitates spermatogenesis

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How is testosterone, estradiol and dihydrotestosterone synthesized (major pathway)?

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  1. Cholesterol
  2. Pregnenolone
  3. 17 alpha-hydroxypregenolone by 17 alpha-hydroxylase
  4. dehydroepiandrosterone
  5. androstenediol
  6. testosterone
  7. a) estradiol by aromatase
  8. b) dihydrotestosterone by 5 alpha-reductase
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How is testosterone synthesized (minor pathway)

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  1. Cholesterol
  2. pregnenolone
  3. progesterone
  4. hydroxyprogesterone by 17 alpha-hydroxylase
  5. androstenedione
  6. testosterone
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What is dihydrotestosterone?

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a more potent androgen than testosterone

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What is the pathway that makes estradiol without testosterone?

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  1. cholesterol
  2. 17 alpha-hydroxypregnenolone
  3. dehydroepiandrosterone
  4. androstenedione
  5. estrone
  6. estradiol
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What is the testosterone axis?

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  1. gonadotropin releasing hormone (hypothalamus)
  2. luteinizing hormone (pituitary)
  3. testosterone (leydig cells in testes)
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What are testosterone’s functions?

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  • normal spermatogenesis
  • secondary sexual characteristics
  • anabolic effects on muscle, liver and kidney
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What do testosterone levels in blood depend on?

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  • steroidogenic abilities of individual Leydig cells
  • total number of Leydig cells per testes
  • luteinizing hormone levels
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In the blood, what is testosterone bound to?

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  • albumin (38%)

- or sex hormone binding globulin (60%)

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Where is sex hormone binding globulin synthesized?

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in the liver

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What is testosterones action on target cells?

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  • circulates bound
  • enters cell once free
  • is reduced to dihydrotestosterone by 5 alpha-reductase or aromatized to estradiol
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What type of enzyme is aromatase?

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it is a cytP450 type enzyme

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How can aromatase be upregulated?

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upregulated by EDC (endocrine disrupting chemicals)

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What do testosterone and dihydroxytestosterone have in common?

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they bind the same receptor

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How are leydig cells involved in the Hyp-Pit-Testicular Axis?

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  1. luteinizing hormone binds luteinizing hormone receptor
  2. adenylyl cyclase increased
  3. cAMP increased
  4. StAR increased
  5. testosterone syntheis and release stimulated
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What gives feedback for the leydig cells involved in the Hyp-Pit-Testicular Axis?

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  1. Negative feedback from estradiol and testosterone

2. positive feedback by activin to increase follicle stimulating hormone

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How are the sertoli cells involved in the Hyp-Pit-Testicular Axis?

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  1. Follicle stimulating hormone binds follicle stimulating hormone receptor
  2. adenylyl cyclase increased
  3. cAMP increased
  4. androgen-binding protein increased
  5. increase in concentration of intratubular testosterone
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What gives feedback for the sertoli cells in the Hyp-Pit-Testicular axis?

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  1. Negative feedback by testosterone, dihydroxytestosterone, estradiol, and inhibin to decrease follicle stimulating hormone
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What receptor is used by luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone?

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GPCR Galpha s

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What family are inhibin and activin in?

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TGF-beta (transforming growth factor) with mullerian inhibiting factor

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What is inhibin’s function?

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inhibits follicle stimulating hormone secretion from the pituitary

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Where is inhibin produced?
produced by the sertoli cells (male) late granulosa (inhibin B) and corpus luteum (inhibin A) (female)
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What is inhibin made up of?
heterodimers of alpha and beta subunit
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What is activin's function?
activates follicle stimulating secretion and binding
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Where is activin produced?
produced by leydig cells (male) early granulosa cells or late corpus luteum (female)
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What is activin made up of?
hetero and homodimers of beta subunits
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What is the function of follistatin?
binds activin, decreases bioavailability, and decrease follicle stimulating hormone synthesis
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What two types of cells are present in the ovaries?
1. Granulosa cells | 2. Theca cells
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What is produced in the granulosa cells?
1. estradiol (has aromatase) 2. activin 3. granulosa-lutein (in luteal phase) 4. progesterone 5. inhibin
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What is not produced in the granulosa cells and why?
- androgens are not produced here because there is no 17 alpha-hydroxylase - also lacks luteinizing hormone receptor
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What is produced in the theca cells?
androstenedione (has 17 alpha-hydroxylase)
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What is not produced in the theca cells and why?
- estradiol is not made here because theca cells lack aromatase - there are also no follicle stimulating hormone receptors
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What does estrogen do to the body?
produces secondary sex characteristics, stimulates the uterus and ovary size and development
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What acts to synthesize in granulosa cells and in theca cells?
- granulosa cells: follicle stimulating hormone | - theca cells: luteinizing hormone
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What is SF-1?
- steroidogenic factor 1
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What is StAR?
- steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
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What changes in the corpus luteum part of the two cell hypothesis?
- luteinizing hormone now acts to synthesis progesterone in the granulosa cells
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What are the three phases in the menstrual cycle regulation?
1. Follicular phase 2. Luteal phase 3. Cessation
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What stimulates expression of follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone?
- hypothalamic release of gonadtropin releasing hormone
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What does estradiol do to the brain?
increases the sensitivity of the the pituitary to gonadtropin releasing hormone
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What happens with gonadotropin releasing hormone in the follicular phase?
- initially a slow pulse frequency | - stimulates follicle stimulating hormone (favoured if increase in activin) and luteinizin hormone
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What happens with follicle stimulating hormone in the follicular phase?
- increase in estradiol from granulosa cells | -
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What does the increase in estradiol from follicle stimulating hormone in the follicular phase cause?
- provides negative feedback to the hypothalamus and pituitary - initially decrease in amount of gonadotropin releasing hormone - later results in increased gonadotropin releasing hormone pulse frequency - decrease follicle stimulating hormone relative to luteinizing hormone
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What happens with insulin-like growth factors during the follicular phase?
enhance response to follicle stimulating hormone
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What happens with luteinizing hormone during the follicular phase?
- increase in estradiol - increase sensitivity of pituitary to gonadotropin releasing hormone - increase in luteinizing hormone - ovulation
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What happens during the luteal phase?
- increase in progesterone (negative feedback on gonadotropin releasing hormone - increase inhibin A (decreases follicle stimulating hormone) - later, higher luteinizing levels (relative)which increases activin and increases follicle stimulating hormone to restart cycle
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What happens during cessation (no implant)?
- luteolysis | - decrease in estradiol, progesterone, and inhibin (luteinizing hormone receptor down regulation in folicular cells)
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What causes menstruation during cessation?
prostaglandins cause vasoconstriction and relaxation resulting in menstruation
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What is the cycle driven by?
- alterations in gonadotropin releasing hormone pulsation which favor the production of different gonadotropins
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What does follicular development result in?
- estradiol production | - then causes positive feedback to produce luteinizing hormone surge
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After ovulation, what does the corpus luteum produce?
- produces progesterone | - causes slowing of gonadtropin releasing hormone pulse and decrease in luteinizing hormone
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What is essential for the maintenance of the menstrual cycle?
- the characteristic periodic secretion of gonadotropin releasing hormone from the hypothalamus at an average rate of one pulse an hour
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What causes the pulses of gonadotropin releasing hormone?
- oscillations in the electrical activity of the gonadotropin releasing hormone pulse generator
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What influences the gonadotropin releasing hormone pulse generator?
- assortment of interactions of multiple neural, hormonal and environmental inputs to the hypothalamus - conditions like stress, light changes, exercises and sleep - specific metabolic signals meant for energy homeostasis
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What is tightly regulated for maintenance of reproductive cycles as well as an intrinsic property of gonadotropin releasing hormone cells?
- pulsatile gonadotropin releasing hormone release
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What do gonadotropin releasing hormone neurons exhibit?
spontaneous action potentials that are associated with Ca2+ oscillations and hormone secretion
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What appears to stimulate gonadotropin releasing hormone release and how?
- increased cAMP levels in neurons by activation of cAMP-gated cation channels (cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels)
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What does the activation of cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels correlate with?
- increased neuronal excitability and calcium oscillations
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How are these cAMP levels potentially decreased?
- potential negative feedback pathways by inhibiting adenylyl cyclase V and activating a phosphodiesterase
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Why must gonadotropin-releasing hormone be pulsatile?
- if not pulsatile then luteinizin hormone ad follicle stimulating hormone becomes desensitized

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