Hormones and artificial control of fertility

Name the hormones that control the menstrual cycle?
1. 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?
1. The ability to produce and offspring
What is meant by infertility?
1. To not be able to have a baby.
What is meant by an oral contraceptive/ contraceptive pill?
1. A drug that is taken through mouth that reduces the chances of getting pregnant.
Which hormone does the pill usually contain?
1. Oestrogen
  1. Why? (Think backwards. What is its function?)
What is the effect of this hormone on the body?
1. Oestrogen slows down how much FSH is made.
  1. If FSH, is not made at all.
    1. Then no egg will mature
      1. So can not get pregnant
What is the name of the other hormone which is not as effective but has even less side effects?
1. 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?
1. FSH
What does IVF stand for?
1. In Vitro Fertilisation
What is IVF?
1. 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?
1. Artifcial FSH
  1. Stimulate the egg
    1. triggers oestrogen production
How do hormones travel from the gland they are made in to the target organs?
1. In the blood
What is meant by a fertility drug?
1. a drug that stimulates ovaries to mature eggs

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