Reproductive Hormones

Progesterone

Plays a role in maintaining pregnancy. The hormone is produced in the ovaries, the placenta, and the adrenal glands. thickens cervical mucus. It helps prepare your body for conception and pregnancy and regulates the monthly menstrual cycle.

Estrogen

The primary function is development of female secondary sexual characteristics. These includes breasts, endometrium, regulation of the menstrual cycle etc. In males, helps in maturation of the sperm and maintenance of a healthy libido.

Inhibin

A protein hormone secreted by sustenacular cells of the testes that acts to inhibit the release of FSH and LH from the anterior pituitary. Active during the late follicular phase and luteal phase.

anti-mullerian hormone

a peptide secreted by the fetal testes that inhibits the development of the Mullerian system, which would otherwise become the female internal sex organs

luteinizing hormone (LH)

causes ovulation (the release of an egg from the ovary) ; stimulates the secretion of progesterone by the corpus luteum; causes the secretion of testosterone in the testes

Gonadatropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH)

causes the pituitary gland in the brain to make and secrete the hormones luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). In men, these hormones cause the testicles to make testosterone. In women, they cause the ovaries to make estrogen and progesterone.

Androgens

male sex hormones

Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)

secreted by the pituitary gland to stimulate maturation of the egg cell (ovum), regulates gametogensis in the gonads (sperm production)

Testosterone

the most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty