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Lecture 1: Hypothalamus/Pituitary
Anterior and posterior pituitary ...,
Secreat,
Blood supply of the
12  cards
Lecture 3: Female tract, oogenesis and endocrine 1
What is oogenesis,
Different stages of follicle deve...,
Oogonia oocyte number throughout ...
17  cards
Lecture 4: Female tract, oogenesis and endocrine 2
Size of the non and pregnant uterus,
Growth of the uterus,
Layers of the uterus
15  cards
Lecture 5: Male tract and endocrine 1
Glandular functions of the testis,
Main cell types in testes,
Germ cell origin
11  cards
Lecture 5: Male tract and endocrine 2
Changes that occur at puberty in ...,
Spermatogenesis,
Spermatogenesis sequence
18  cards
Lecture 6: fertilisation and implantation
When are the two polar bodies eje...,
Process as sperm enters the vagina,
What makes life hard for the sperm
14  cards
Lecture 7: Infertility
Infertility is defined as,
Assessement of male fertility,
Female assessement
13  cards
Lecture 9: Calcium metabolism
Major hormonal players,
Bound non bound forms of ca,
Major organ involvement in ca met...
17  cards
Lecture 10: Calcium metabolism
Primary hyperparathyroidism prese...,
Cancers causing hypercalcaemia,
Diagnosis of humeral hypercalcaem...
11  cards
Lecture 11: Placenta/pregnancy
Other relevance of pre eclampsia ...,
Essential functions of the placenta,
Nidation specifics
9  cards
Lecture 12: Placenta/Pregnancy
Glandular milk,
Premature blood flow and miscarriage,
Definitions villous villous
17  cards
Lecture 13: Placenta/pregnancy
Human chorionic gonadotrophin hcg...,
Functions of hcg,
Hcg and tumours
15  cards
Lecture 14: Fetal growth and Nutrition
Importance of a healthy start to ...,
Problems faced for large children,
Term gestation
21  cards
Lecture 15: Normal Birth
The parts of labour,
Challenges in human parturition,
Quiescence
15  cards
Lecture 16: preterm birth
What is preterm labour,
Why is it a problem,
Causes of preterm birth
14  cards
Lecture 17: Thyroid
Role of thyroid hormones,
Embryological beginnings,
Clinical anatomy of the thyroid
15  cards
Lecture 18: Avoiding pregnancy contraception
Methods available in nz,
Mec,
Different classifications of uses
14  cards
Lecture 19: Breast
The breasts are purpose,
Derivation of the breast,
Gynaecomastia
12  cards
Lecture 20: Lactation
Stages of lactation lactogenesis,
Colostrum and mature milk,
Major components of human milk
12  cards
Lecture 21: Sexual differentiation
The bipotential fetus,
The bipotential gonad,
Two inputs to the bipotential gon...
15  cards
Lecture 22: Steroid abnormalities
Glucocorticoid deficiency,
Mineralocorticoid deficiency,
Adrenal gland
10  cards
Lecture 23: post-natal growth
Abnormal growth can be caused from,
Phases of growth,
Mid parental height
18  cards
Lecture 25: Physiology of whole body metabolism
Impotrtance of glucose,
What are the islets of langerhans,
Two major glucose transporters
18  cards
Lecture 26: Metabolic syndrome and diabetes
What is insulin resistance,
How to recognize insulin resistan...,
What causes insulin resistance
12  cards
Lecture 27: puberty
Puberty is and is caused by,
First signs,
Thelarchepubarche gonadarche mena...
16  cards
Lecture 28: menopause
Why menopause,
Timing of menopause,
Timing of menopause variation
11  cards
Lecture 29: Ageing
Biology of ageing,
Does sex shorten life,
Disposable soma theory
6  cards

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