BIOSC-116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Follicular Phase, Seminiferous Tubule, Anterior Pituitary

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Lh activates specialized secretory cells present in the testes to release testosterone. Testosterone stimulates the testes to make sperm in the seminiferous tubules within the testes. As levels of testosterone increase within the blood it shuts off the negative feedback loop. The hypothalamus stops releasing gnrh and the anterior pituitary stops releasing lh. Together fsh and testosterone will end up with more sperm produced. There is a capacity of sperm cells that can be held. The testes start to produce the hormone inhibin which will shut down the pathway so that more sperm will not be produced when there is no room for them to be put anywhere. When you"re born, you have all of your eggs already partially formed. Women only make approximately 400 eggs in a lifetime. In a stasis fixed in time at a certain point in meiosis when born.

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