Progesterone

DISCUSSION Spermatozoa and its Arrival to the Egg Before embarking in the complexity of CatSper channels, the particular characteristics of sperm and its movement towards the egg in female that allows for fertilization should be addressed. Spermatozoa are differentiated motile cells that have two main structures: the head, which houses packed DNA, and the flagellum, the motility portion that transports the sperm genetic information to the egg (1). Within the spermatozoa head both a vesicle…

Abortion For many years the topic abortion has become very controversial. Whether it is supported by those who believe that women should have a choice to have an abortion if they wanted, because it is a constitutional right. While opposed by those who believe that having an abortion is immoral murder to an unborn baby. Abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy followed by the death of the embryo or fetus (Merriam-Webster). Abortion laws date back to the 1800’s and have continuously…

can develop because of a lack of estrogen, but this can largely be prevented by taking hormone replacement. Another symptom of Turner Syndrome are Non-functioning ovaries. Normally a females’ ovaries begin to produce sex hormones (estrogen and progesterone) at puberty. However, this does not happen in most girls who have Turner syndrome. They do not start their periods or develop breasts without hormone treatment at the age they typically should. Even though many women who have Turner have…

However, in spite of the presence of migrainous symptoms, NDPH is still defined as a headache and has headache-related symptoms. Patients with NDPH report that pain is typically felt across the head bilaterally. This is different from a migraine, where pain is felt on only one side of the head. The pain is also typically pressing or tightening in quality, which is characteristic of a typical headache (Prakash & Shah, 2010). However, this pain is starkly different from a normal headache because…

What is the main thing that experiences your head when you consider steroids? Barry Bonds, Hulk Hogan, or Lance Armstrong? Possibly "conning" rings a bell. You may think about the ugly back skin inflammation or the notorious "roid run" that accompanies steroid utilize. Steroids have dependably been given a terrible notoriety as an "unsafe" and "unjustifiable" medication on the grounds that each couple of years a popular and fruitful competitor gets found utilizing them and the media butchers…

Abortion is the termination of pregnancy. Many women or couples decide to abort for many different reasons. When a woman come to this decision they usually have three different methods to choose from. This method used typically depends on how far the fetus is developed, or in other words what trimester the women is in. The three-abortion classification are surgical, medical, and spontaneous. This paper will analysis these three methods, briefly, and some of the side effects abortion could have…

2011, p. 21-22). Baron-Cohen (2003) further elaborates stating that these three temperaments combined with genetic sequencing of DNA (i.e., chromosomes #23 and #24—male XY and female XX) and hormones (i.e., Testosterone for males and estrogen/progesterone for females) determine brain functioning and sex-typical behavior for gender-typing an individual as male or female. However, if a person has no gonads to represent the chromosomes of gender, then they may be suffering from “Turner’s Syndrome”…

Sudden infant death syndrome is when an infant, under the age of one, dies during the night from an unexplained cause. It is rare for SIDS to occur within the first month, chances are higher around 2-4 months of age. There are no signs of infant distress in most cases and many mothers have stated that the infant feeds right before being laid down. It is only diagnosed after reviewing the infants’ clinical history and a complete autopsy examination is done excluding all other causes of death.…

Sociologist may associate biological influences on gender with the human behaviour and the structure of the human anatomy however; some sociologist may base their sociological influences on gender with cultural and environmental factors. This associates with the “nature vs. nuture” argument, as I will be exploring and comparing sociologist views on whether biology has more of an influence on gender or sociology. From a sociologist’s point of view, sex is referred to the biological approach and…

The knee where the ACL is located must be able to withstand these forces and have tensile strength. Estrogen and progesterone have been linked to affect the collagen metabolism of female ACL’s (Wild, 2012). In a recent 2015 cross-sectional study, it compared gene expression and structural functions in normal ACL tissues from young male and females who had ruptured ACL’s…