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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2015 Jan;5(1):193–215. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c140005

Figure 11.

Figure 11

Sex hormones vary throughout the ovarian cycle in young women. The change between mid-luteal and early follicular phases in estradiol (top panel) and in the ratio estradiol/progesterone (bottom panel) was inversely associated with the change in muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA). This suggests that higher estrogen in mid luteal phases may be sympatho-inhibitory. Data adapted from (13).