Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hormones and artificial control of fertility
- Name the hormones that control the menstrual cycle?
- Name all 4 hormones and their functions.
- How do oral contraceptives work?
- How is FSH used as a fertility drug?
- What is meant by fertility?
- The ability to produce and offspring
- What is meant by infertility?
- To not be able to have a baby.
- What is meant by an oral contraceptive/ contraceptive
pill?
- A drug that is taken through mouth that reduces the chances of getting pregnant.
- Which hormone does the pill usually contain?
- Oestrogen
- Why? (Think backwards. What is its function?)
- What is the effect of this hormone on the body?
- Oestrogen slows down how much FSH is made.
- If FSH, is not made at all.
- Then no egg will mature
- So can not get pregnant
- What is the name of the other
hormone which is not as effective
but has even less side effects?
- Progesterone (not as good as does not prevent eggs maturing.
- Which hormone is usually given to women who
struggle to have babies as they do not make enough female hormones?
- FSH
- What does IVF stand for?
- In Vitro Fertilisation
- What is IVF?
- combining the egg and sperm in a petri dish, so
fertilisation takes place outside of the body.
- Which hormone is usually given to women having IVF?
- Artifcial FSH
- Stimulate the egg
- triggers oestrogen production
- How do hormones travel from the gland
they are made in to the target organs?
- In the blood
- What is meant by a fertility drug?
- a drug that stimulates ovaries to mature eggs