In the absence of pregnancy, steroid hormone levels fall due to declining corpus luteum function, and progesterone withdrawal results in increased coiling and constriction of the spiral arterioles, leading to menstruation.

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

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• 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 (5)

• progesterone concept
• corpus luteum concept
• menstruation concept
• pregnancy concept
• steroid hormones concept