The corpus luteum's life span depends on continued luteinizing hormone (LH) support, and its function declines by the end of the luteal phase unless human chorionic gonadotropin is produced by a pregnancy.

Authors

• Person: Feingold KR, Adler RA, Ahmed SF Organization: National Center for Biotechnology Information
  The Normal Menstrual Cycle and the Control of Ovulation - NCBI - NIH

Sources

• The Normal Menstrual Cycle and the Control of Ovulation - NCBI - NIH www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Feingold KR, Adler RA, Ahmed SF · National Center for Biotechnology Information via serper

Referenced by nodes (4)

• luteinizing hormone (LH) concept
• luteal phase concept
• corpus luteum concept
• human chorionic gonadotropin concept