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6. What happens to FSH levels after ovulation?

  • They fall
  • They rise

7. What is produced at first oestrus (i.e. puberty onset)?

  • Secondary oocyte
  • Secondary oocyte and polar body
  • Primary oocyte and polar body
  • Ovum

8. What does LH do?

  • Triggers ovulation and corpus luteum development
  • Stimulates follicular growth in ovaries

9. What do low-frequency GnRH pulses do?

  • Stimulate release of FSH
  • Stimulate release of LH

10. What effect does Beta Endorphin have?

  • Promotes GnRH neurone activity
  • Promotes LH
  • Inhibits LH
  • Inhibits FSH

11. What is FSH highly sensitive to?

  • Negative feedback of oestradiol
  • Positive feedback of oestradiol
  • Negative feedback of GnRH
  • Positive feedback of GnRH

12. What does inhibin do?

  • Inhibits GnRH
  • Inhibits FSH
  • Inhibits LH
  • Inhibits oestradiol

13. What does a regressed corpus luteum form?

  • Tertiary follicle
  • Corpus albicans
  • Corpus haemorragicans

14. What effect do GABAnergic neurones have on GnRH neurones?

  • Causes retraction of their associated Glial cell
  • Inhibits them
  • Promotes their activity

15. What effect does dopamine have on GnRH neurones?

  • Inhibits them
  • Stimulates them

16. What state are gametes arrested in at birth of the female animal?

  • Oogonium
  • Primary oocyte
  • Ovum
  • Secondary oocyte

17. What does FSH do?

  • Stimulates follicular growth in ovaries
  • Stimulates growth of ovaries
  • Stimulates follicular lysis in ovaries
  • Produces corpus luteum in ovaries

18. What is added in glycosylation of the Beta subunits of gonadotrophins?

  • Carbohydrates and sialic acid
  • Carbohydrates and glutamine
  • Carbohydrates
  • Sulphide bridges and cabohydrates

19. What effect does progesterone have on GnRH release?

  • Promotes pulsatile secretion only
  • Inhibits it
  • Promotes it
  • Promotes cyclic secretion only

20. What stimulates the production of prostaglandin F2a?

  • Oxytocin from corpus luteum
  • FSH from anterior pituitary
  • Progesterone from corpus luteum
  • GnRH from hypothalamus