Histology of Female Reproductive System, An Outline.

1. Components of female reproductive organs

a. Ovary (pair)

b. Oviducts (pair)

c. Vagina

d. External genitalia

2. Main function of above-mentioned system

a. Production of gametes

b. Production of steroidal hormones

3. What controls the cyclic changes?

a. Neurohormonal mechanisms

4. TAKE NOTE:

a. Mammary isn’t part of genital system but its affected by the same
neurohormonal mechanism

5. Ovaries

a. Almond-shape

b. Simple cuboidal

c. Genrmial epithelium is continuous with mesothelium overlying the tunica

albuginea

d. Composed by either

i. Cortex

ii. Medulla

6. Cortex (of ovary, composition)

a. Connective tissue: stroma

b. Ovarian follicle s

7. Medulla (of ovary, composition)

 a. Loose connective tissue

b. Blood vessels

8. Cortex and the Medulla (of ovary)

a. No sharp limits in between

9. Primordial germ cell

a. Migrate from yolk sac to gonadal primordia

10.Primordial germ cell (within the gonads)

a. Divides extensively and differentiate into oogonia (approximately

600,000)

11.Oogonia, arrested in meiosis

a. Are called primary oocytes

12.What surrounds oogonia

a. Follicular cells within an ovarian follicle

13.Good bye to 600,000 eggs…

a. At puberty, only 300,000 survives

b. Of 300,000 only 450 gets liberated

14.Ovarian follicle

a. An oocytes surrounded by one or more layer of epithelial cells

15.Primordial follicles

a. Formed during fetal life

b. Primordial oocytes enveloped by single layer of flat follicular cells.