Menstrual cycle cessation

Hyposecretion during adult life leads to Simmond s disease and is characterized by dry and wrinkled skin, grey hair and there is a atrophy of the sexual organs and cessation of menstrual cycle in the female. 

Hypersecretion from the adrenal cortex leads to condition known as Cushing s syndrome which leads to feminism in males, which is the tendency to develop female sex characters and in females virilism develops, which is the tendency to develop male sex characters such as excess growth of hair on chest and pubic region, increase and darkening of facial hair, atrophy of mammary glands (breasts) and cessation of menstrual cycle (amenorrhoea). 

Menopause is the cessation of the menstrual cycle, when ovulation and menstruation cease. The cessation of menstruation is gradual and is preceded by menstrual cycles in which ovulation does not occur. The menstrual... 

Perimenopause—The period immediately prior to the menopause and the first year after menopause. Reflects the transition to menopause (with irregular menstrual cycles) and includes the 3 to 5 years before and 1 year after the cessation of menstrual flow. 

A dose-related cessation or lengthening of estrous cycles was observed in approximately 66% of rats administered a diet containing 2.5, 5, or 10% flaxseed. When animals on the same diet were administered tamoxifen, 83% of the animals had irregular menstrual cycles or were in persistent diestrus (Orcheson et al. 1998). 

Fibroids are smooth muscle tumors of the uterus that are influenced by steroid hormones and develop in women of reproductive age. They do not occur before puberty and fibroid-related symptoms become less severe or resolve altogether with the onset of menopause as a result of decreasing levels of steroid hormones (estrogen, progesterone) and cessation of the menstrual cycle. However, women on hormone replacement therapy may suffer from fibroid-related... 

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