Description
Progesterone is an endogenous steroid and progestin sex hormone involved in the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and embryogenesis in humans and other species. It belongs to a group of steroid hormones called the progestogens and is the major progestogen in the body. Progesterone has a variety of important functions in the body. The endocrinology of the oestrous cycle in pigs is related to the enormous storage of progesterone in the fat