Zusammenfassung der Ressource
6.6 Hormones, Homeostasis
and Reproduction
- NATURE OF SCIENCE
- Developments in scientific
research follow
improvements in apparatus
- The microscope was invented 17
years after William Harvey death
- Investigation on sexual
reproduction in deer
- HORMONES
- Glands
- Pancreas
- Regulate blood sugar level
- alpha cells
- Glucagon
- Beta cells
- Insulin
- Type I vs Type II diabetes
- Causes + Treament
- Thyroid gland
- Thyroxin
- Regulate the metabolic rate
- Help control body temperature
- Cells in adipose tissue
- Leptin
- Acts on hypothalamus of
the brain to inhibit appetite
- Testing of leptin on
patients with clinical obesity
- Reasons for the failure
to control the disease
- Pineal gland
- Melatonin
- Control circadian rhythms
- Jet lag
- A gene on the Y chromosome causes
embryonic gonads to develop as testes
- Testosterone
- Pre-natal development
of male genitalia
- Sperm production
- Male secondary sexual
characteristics
- Estrogen + Progesterone
- Pre-natal development of
female reproductive organs
- Female secondary
sexual characteristics
- Menstrual cycle
- Negative +
Positive feedback
- FSH + LH
- IVF
- Drugs to suspend the normal
secretion of hormones
- Surperovulation
- Replacement therapies
- Aim 8
- Drugs women take in fertility treatment
pose potential risks to health
- Should scientific knowledge override
compassionate consideration in
treating infertile couples?
- REPRODUCTION
- Annotate a diagrams of the male
and female reproductive system