Women Post-reproductive changes

Flowchart nodes

• Hormonal system

• In controle of

• Nerve system

• Reproductive system

• Menarche

• Menopause

• Start 2,3 years after puberty start. ....If level of sexual hormones is quite high.  

• Starts in 51. year of woman life 

• 3 levels of menstruation controle

• 1. Hypothalamus

• 2. Hypophysis

• 3. Ovaria

• Hypothalamus Pituitary (binary/octet-stream)

• reproductive control line (os) 1.-3.

• synergic action

• Also: Level of sexual hormones are  in prenatal development quite high. But it decreased and stopped to be synthesized after birth.  Second start of increasing sexual hormones is 4 years before forming secondary sexual characteristics.  

• gonadotropíny uvoľňujúci hormón (GnRH)

• do hypotalamo-hypofýzového portálneho systému

• Differencies of secretion GnRH affect secretion LH. 

• luteinizačný hormón (LH)

• folikulo-stimulačný hormón (FSH)!

• Transported by blood to ovaria. They control folliculus maturing in ovaria and steroid hormones production. 

• estrogen

• progesteron

• key role in forming secondary sexual characteristics