- Who’s in charge here? Nervous vs Endocrine systems. Compare and contrast structure and function
- Hormones; The What, Where How and When
- Endocrine with exocrine glands: Compare and contrast structure and function
- The Big Kahunas: Relationships between the hypothalamus and pituitary gland and its target organs
- Hormones of the hypothalamus and each lobe of the pituitary; Anterior vs posterior lobes of the pituitary;
- Honey I Shrunk the Kids: Why we need Growth hormone
- Endocrine glands inferior to the head: hormones of these endocrine glands and functions
- Up and down Regulation: How target cells regulate their sensitivity to circulating hormones; describe how hormones affect each other when two or more of them stimulate the same target cells; and discuss how hormones are removed from circulation after they have performed their roles.
- I’m stressed! How the body adapts to stress through its endocrine and sympathetic nervous systems.
- Eicosanoids and the roles of Prostaglandins.
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- Diabetes Mellitus: describe the causes and pathology of diabetes mellitus vs normal function
- The Three little hormones: Explain some general causes and examples of hormone hyposecretion and hypersecretion;
- Common disorders of thyroid gland vs normal structure/function
- Common disorders of pituitary gland vs normal structure/function
- Common disorders of parathyroid gland vs normal structure/function
- Common disorders of adrenal gland vs normal structure/function
- Scrotum, testes, and penis; the pathway taken by a sperm cell from its formation to its ejaculation, naming all the passages it travels
- Sex chromosomes in determining sex
- Vasectomy vs Tubal ligation: Break down the anatomical changes and risks
- Spermatogenesis: Stages of meiosis and contrast meiosis with mitosis
- From Sperm to Semen- Structure, composition, normal sperm count, viability
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- Puberty in boys- principal signs of puberty and hormonal control
- Puberty in girls- principal signs of puberty, 3 stages- Why is age of menarche lowering
- The hormones that regulate female reproductive cycle, where they are made and their roles.
- Female cycle-average length, role of the hypothalamus, and uterine changes. Relate changes in hormones and their effects on structure/cycle.
- Menopause and anatomical changes
- Describe changes in the ovarian follicles (folliculogenesis) vs oogenesis
- Four major hormones of pregnancy, describe a woman’ s bodily adaptations to pregnancy
- The benefits of breast-feeding: Including lactation reflex; describe the mechanism of milk ejection, shifting hormonal balance
- The 4th Trimester: The physiological changes that occur during the weeks after childbirth
- The Race of a lifetime: Sperm migration and fertilization: including capacitation, acrosome reaction and egg coating
- Seeing double: Twins!! Talk us through it.
- Fertilized egg into an embryo: major events and implantation
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