GENERAL HISTOLOGY

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: -Ovaries Essentials. The ovaries maintain the health of the female reproductive system. They secrete two main hormones-estrogen and progesterone.

Detailed explanation-3: -Your ovaries secrete estrogen and progesterone. These hormones play an important role in reproductive development and menstruation. Estrogen production is highest in the first half of your menstrual cycle before ovulation.

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).