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Interaction of the HPA and HPG axes in adulthood. Solid lines represent stimulating pathways and hashed lines representing inhibitory pathways. Note that estradiol can provide both positive and negative feedback at different phases of the menstrual cycle. Model adapted primarily from Stratakis and Chrousos (1995) and Terberg et al. (2009).
