The placenta secretes progesterone after it develops, which supports the corpus luteum and maintains elevated progesterone levels throughout pregnancy to prevent the production of additional eggs.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Endocrine Society
  Reproductive Hormones

Sources

• Reproductive Hormones www.endocrine.org Endocrine Society via serper

Referenced by nodes (3)

• progesterone concept
• corpus luteum concept
• pregnancy concept