Female Reproductive Hormones

HORMONES SOURCE EFFECTS

Releasing hormone * Hypotholomus Stimulates the
anterior pituitary
gland
follicle-stimulating * Anterior Stimulates the
developmentof folllicle and
hormone pituitary gland ooctyte in the ovary

Luteinizing hormones Causes ovulation (release

* Anterior of egg into fallopian tube)
pituitary gland
Causes ovulation (release of
Estrogen * Follicle and
secondary sex characteristics
corpus luteum and the thickening of the
uterus lining

* Pregnancy hormone
Progesterone * Corpus luteum *Sustains the thickening of