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There are two hormone producing compartments in the ovary:

  1. 1.

    The follicle and corpus luteum

  2. 2.

    The ovarian stroma.

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© 1989 Maureen Dalton

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Dalton, M. (1989). The Gonads. In: Gynaecological Endocrinology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20209-6_3

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