KROK 1 2011 – Question 40 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
The secretion of which hypophysial hormones will be inhibited after taking the oral contraceptives containing sex hormones?
- A. Thyrotrophic hormone
- B. Somatotropic hormone
- C. Vasopressin
- D. Gonadotropic hormone
- E. Oxytocin
Hint
Ask which pituitary hormones drive follicle maturation and ovulation, and how the sex steroids in the pill act on them through negative feedback.
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