Male Repro 1 Flashcards
The _____ is both an exocrine producing spermatozoa and an endocrine secreting hormones
Testis
What does each lobule contain numerous amount of in the testis?
Seminiferous tubules
What is the connective tissue between the seminiferous tubules?
Intersitium
What type of cells do intersitium contain?
Leydig
What is the region in which seminiferous tubules converge and sperm exits the testis?
Composed of: straight tubules —> rete testis
Mediastinum
What are large, columnar cells that extend the full thickness of the germinal epithelium?
Sertoli cells
What type of cells have the following:
Support the developing spermatogenic cells
Establishing the blood-testis barrier
Act as phagocytes, consuming residual cytoplasm during spermatogenesis
Convert testosterone to estrogen
Sertoli cells
What cells have the function of producing testosterone?
Leydig cells
Leydig cells have abundant ___________ cytoplasm with lipid droplets
Eosinophilic
What is the region where seminiferous tubules converge and sperm exits the testis?
Mediastinum
The mediastinum is made of _________ tubules that are lined by simple cuboidal to columnar epithelium
Straight
The transitional zone in the mediastinum is lined by _________ cells
Sertoli
What connects the rete testis with the proximal portion of the epidimymis?
Efferent ductules
Each effect ductule opens into a single channel of the _________
Epididymis
Where does sperm enter after it leaves the testes?
Epididymis
What do sperm undergo as they move through the epididymis?
Maturation
Where are mature stored in the epididymis?
In tail
What is the muscular tube connecting the epididymis with the urethra in the prostate?
Ductus deferens
What is part of the spermatic cord along with arteries, nerves, pampiniform plexus, and lymphatic vessels?
Ductus deferens
What produces a mucus-rich fluid facilitating transport of sperm, providing nutrients, lubricating urethra, neutralize acidic urine, increases semen viscosity?
Accessory glands
