BIOC19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ghrelin, Prenatal Development, Leptin
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Lecture 7 sexual behaviour november 1st 2016. In average older people tend to sleep less than the younger ones, lack of sleep can affect appetite regulation. They did a study with two groups of people, half of them went to sleep extension whereas the other half with sleep restriction. The ones with restriction had a decrease in the leptin, increase in ghrelin which is a hormone responsible for hunger. There are two ways you can refer to sex one way is the biological sex the second way is the social version. For female we have the xx chromosome and the males have the xy chromosome. Three stages of prenatal development the presence of absence of the sry can have an effect on the determination of whether it will be a male or a female. Normal female genetilia formed but it is abnormal. Lh messeage to release the testerone the synthesis of human sex hormones hypothalamic.