Estrogen and Progesterone Overview

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Steroid hormones produced by ovaries?

Estrogens and progestogens

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Estrogen Characteristics?

estradiol, estrone, estriol (estradiol most potent)

Activates intracellular estrogen receptors - ERα and ERβ

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Where is estrogen produced?

produced by follicles (primary source in non-pregnant females), corpus luteum

placenta (during pregnancy)

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Progestogens Characteristics?

Includes progesterone & its metabolites

Progesterone activates intracellular progesterone receptors – PRA & PRB

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Where is progesterone produced?

Produced by corpus luteum (primary source in non-pregnant females)

placenta (during pregnancy)