Hormone Secreted Through Ovary
1. Estrogen
2. Progesterone
3. Little bit testosterone
Estrogen and progesterone are steroid hormone.
Estrogen
Secreted by growing follicle.
Help to stimulate growth of ova.
Stimulate ovulation
Thickness lining of uterus (endometrium) to prepare pregnancy.
Progesterone
Progesterone secreted by corpus leuteum in ovary.
Prepare the endometrium, lining of uterus for fertilized egg to implant and grow.
Required for maintaining endometrium during implantation and pregnancy.
Stimulate the formation of alveoli for milk storage in mammary gland and milk secretion.
If conception occur, progesterone increases to support pregnancy. If pregnancy doesn’t occur, endometrium layer shedding during menstrual cycle.
