Sentences with phrase «luteum follicle»

The corpus luteum follicle is left in the ovary after the egg is released during ovulation, and produces significant amounts of progesterone and estrogen, creating a hormonal surge responsible for PMS symptoms.

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After an egg is released to be fertilized around week 3 of pregnancy, the follicle in the ovary that it came from — called the corpus luteum — collapses, starts producing the hormone progesterone, and provides nourishment and support for an embryo throughout the first trimester of pregnancy.
After ovulation, the corpus luteum (a fancy Latin word for the structure that remains after the ovarian follicle releases the egg) produces progesterone, which helps a fertilized egg implant into the wall of the uterus.
The empty follicle becomes the corpus luteum which is responsible for producing progesterone.
After ovulation the now - empty follicle becomes the corpus luteum (so named because of its appearance as a small yellow body on the surface of the ovary).
This is super important because once the egg has been released, the follicle it lived in transforms into the corpus luteum, which is the sole source of progesterone production for the second half of your cycle.
When the follicle ruptures, it is transformed into the corpus luteum.
Once the little follicle in your ovary has released an egg, this follicle turns into what is known as a corpus luteum and it produces progesterone.
The first follicle that ovulates, releasing its egg into the fallopian tube for a journey to the uterus, quickly changes into the corpus luteum, which is a factory for making progesterone, and raises progesterone's concentrations to 200 to 300 times higher than that of estradiol.
During this time, the follicle undergoes its dramatic transformation into the corpus luteum, which will secrete predominantly progesterone.
By the end of the follicular phase, the luteinizing hormone surge results in ejection of the oocyte and transforms the remaining follicle into the corpus luteum; small and large luteal cells are formed from theca and granulosa cells, respectively.
Following ovulation, each ruptured follicle changes to corpus luteum, a yellow body responsible for increasing progesterone levels during estrus.
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