BIO 181 Lecture Notes - Prophase, Corpus Luteum, Follicular Fluid
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Table of contents: definition 2, anatomical reminder (female genitalia) 2. Medullary zone or medulla 3: course of ovogenesis 3. Maturation phase 4: folliculogenesis 5. Mature follicle or de gra f follicle or pre-ovulatory follicle 6. The gonads (sex glands) are represented in women by the ovaries and have a double function: Endocrine: consists of the secretion of female sex hormones (estrogen and progesterone); Exocrine: this is ovogenesis, i. e. the process of transformation of stem cells called ovogonia into female gametes or oocytes ii. Cyclical, whereas in men it is continuous: anatomical reminder (female genitalia) The two fallopian tubes (right and left) It is a hollow organ, odd and median, in which one distinguishes: the body: receiving the two tubes on the upper edges, the uterine cervix: corresponding to the narrowest part and which opens onto the vagina. Odd and median duct, muscular-membranous, which goes from the cervix to the vulva.
