Ovaries

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Ovaries

• Tasha, Heather and Nikki

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Topics

• Intro
• Location
• Hormones secreted
• Target cells affected by hormones
• Feedback
• Complication due to damage of the ovaries

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Introduction what are the ovaries?

• The essential part of a womans reproductive
  system
• Responsible for giving a woman all of her
  secondary sex characteristics
• Allow women to become pregnant
• Storage of the eggs

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Location of the Ovaries

• Two almond shaped glands
• Located just underneath the ends of the fallopian
  tubes
• are placed on either side of the uterus

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Hormones Secreted

• Estrogen Steroidal hormone
• Progesterone Steroidal hormone
• Each of the hormones are constantly being
  produced.

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Estrogen

• Promote the development of female secondary sex
  characteristics,
• Thickening of the endometrium
• Regulating menstrual cycle
• Decelerate height growth
• Reduce muscle mass
• Thicken the vaginal wall
• Accelerate metabolism

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Target Cells of Estrogen

• mammary gland, uterus, brain
• Uterus thickens the inner wall of the uterus
  (endometrium)
• stimulates the glands of the cervix to secrete a
  particular type of mucus to allow transportation
  of the sperm to the uterus
• Mammary glands stimulates the production and
  secretion of milk
• Brain is responsible for the way women think
  and act differently from men

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Feedback
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Progesterone

• Involved in maintaining pregnancy
• Helps prepare the body for conception
• Plays a role in sexual desire
• Causes the endometrium to secrete special
  proteins during the second half of the menstrual
  cycle
• Encourages the growth of milk producing glands in
  the breast during pregnancy
• Partly responsible for symptoms of PMS

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Target Cells of Progesterone

• Uterus secretions of the proteins, prepares it
  for conception
• Mammary Glands promotes growth of the glands
• Brain keeps desires high

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Feedback

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Complications due to Damages of the Ovary

• Inability to become pregnant
• All or the secondary sex characteristics would
  become less visible
• Menstrual cycle would stop