The nurse educator at a public health clinic is teaching the nurses at a mom and well baby clinic about pregnancy. The educator asks the nurses, "During the follicular phase, estrogen causes which physiologic effects?"
Which of the following responses made by the nurses best demonstrate understanding? (Select all that apply.)
a. Facilitation of vaginal atrophy
b. Breast enlargement
c. Increased secretions from cervical glands
d. Reversal of endometrial proliferation
e. Increased vaginal acidity
ANS: B, C, E
The physiologic effects of estrogens during the follicular phase are breast enlargement, increased secretions from cervical glands, and increased vaginal acidity.
Estrogen does not facilitate vaginal atrophy or reverse endometrial proliferation.
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