Table 3.
Hormone administration mimicking the hormonal changes of a 24 day long menstrual cycle. Mean serum levels of E2 and P4 were used for treatment.
| Menstruation | Proliferative Phase | Secretory Phase | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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Early Follicaular Phase E2 = 8.7–75 ng/L → 42 ng/L |
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Follicular Phase E2 = 12.5–166 ng/L → 89 ng/L P4 = 0.06–0.9 µg/L → 0.5 µg/L |
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Ovulation E2 = 85.8–498 ng/L → 292 ng/L P4 = 0.1–12 µg/L → 6.1 µg/L |
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Luteal Phase E2 = 43.8–211 ng/L → 112.7 ng/L P4 = 1.8–24 µg/L → 12.9 µg/L |
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