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Receptors progesterone

receptors, progesterone

specific proteins found in or on cells of progesterone target tissues that specifically combine with progesterone. The cytosol progesterone-receptor complex then associates with the nucleic acids to initiate protein synthesis. There are two kinds of progesterone receptors, a and b. Both are induced by oestrogen and have short half-lives.


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... These increase and decrease in number (and vary their estrogen and progesterone outputs) during the course of the menstrual cycle. The hypothalamus, ... but the feedback mechanism is progesterone levels. There are estrogen receptors in the brain (as well as elsewhere), but the effects there do ...

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