Maternal-Newborn & Women-s Health questions with correct answers

Maternal-Newborn & Women's Health
questions with correct answers


The maturing child's hypothalamus gradually increases production
of GnRH beginning - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔age 9 to 12
years


Hormonal changes of puberty begin - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
**✔✔about 6 months to 1 year earlier in girls than in boy
hanges of puberty in girls, such as breast development and height
increase, begin an average of 2 years before changes in boys


Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
**✔✔Produced by
Hypothalamus


Target Organs
Anterior pituitary


Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone



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,Action in Female - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Stimulates
release of FSH* and LH, initiating puberty and sustaining female
reproductive cycles; release is pulsatile.


Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
Action in Male - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Stimulates
release of FSH and LH, initiating puberty; release is pulsatile.


Follicle-Stimulating Hormone - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
**✔✔Produced by
Anterior pituitary


Target Organs
Ovaries (female)
Testes (male)


Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Action in Female - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔Stimulates final maturation of follicle.
Stimulates growth and maturation of graafian follicles before
ovulation.




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,Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Action in Male - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔Stimulates Leydig cells of testes to secrete
testosterone.


Luteinizing Hormone - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Produced
by
Anterior pituitary


Target Organs
Ovaries (female)
Testes (male)


Luteinizing Hormone Action in Female - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔Stimulates final maturation of follicle.


Surge of LH about 14 days before next menstrual period causes
ovulation.


Stimulates transformation of graafian follicle into corpus luteum,
which continues secretion of estrogens and progesterone for about
12 days if ovum is not fertilized. If fertilization occurs, placenta




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, gradually assumes this function.


Luteinizing Hormone Action in Male - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
**✔✔Stimulates Leydig cells of testes to secrete testosterone.


Estrogens - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Produced by
Ovaries and corpus luteum (female)
Placenta (pregnancy)
Formed in small quantities from testosterone in Sertoli cells of
testes (male); other tissues, especially liver, produce estrogen in
male


Target Organs
Internal and external reproductive organs
Breasts (female)
Testes (male)


Estrogens Action in Female - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
**✔✔Reproductive organs:
a.Maturation at puberty
b.Stimulation of endometrium before ovulation




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