ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Your ovaries make most of your estrogen during your reproductive years. Your adrenal glands (the glands on your kidneys) and adipose tissue (body fat) secrete estrogen, too.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is estrogen? Estrogens are a group of hormones that play an important role in the normal sexual and reproductive development in women. They are also sex hormones. The woman’s ovaries make most estrogen hormones, although the adrenal glands and fat cells also make small amounts of the hormones.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ovary secretes numerous substances including steroid hormones, prostaglandins, inhibin and activin, growth factors, proteoglycans and proteolytic enzymes. Steroid hormones appear to be among the most important and include androgens, estrogens, and progestins.

Detailed explanation-4: -Working with hormones from the pituitary gland, testosterone also tells a boy’s body when it’s time to make sperm in the testes. A girl’s gonads, the ovaries (OH-vuh-reez), are in her pelvis. They make eggs and secrete the female hormones estrogen (ESS-truh-jen) and progesterone (pro-JESS-tuh-rone).