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Use the following flowchart to answer the next series of questions. 

High levels of estrogen at the end of this phase will stimulate the release of a single high concentration release of which pituitary hormone?

The functional unit of the kidney which is responsible for the formation of urine is called the _____.

What effect does the hormone in the previous question have on the kidney?

As fluid is lost due to the hemorrhage, the osmolarity of the blood plasma will ______.

What hormone is represented by C in the flowchart with a target of the thyroid gland?

A pheochromocytoma is a tumor of the adrenal medulla that causes hypersecretion of the hormones produced int he adrenal medulla.  What symptoms might you expect in a patient with this tumor?

Which of these is the name given to the first phase of the Reproductive cycle?

Which hormone directly causes the mammary glands of the breast tissue to become secretory and produce milk?

What does the remaining structure transition into after ovulation?