A transient endocrine gland that develops from the postovulatory or atretic follicles and secretes progesterone; it is thought to be related to egg retention[PMID]. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20959416 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_luteum ]
Synonyms: corpora lutea corpus luteum of ovary ovarian corpus luteum
Term information
- BTO:0000292
- Wikipedia:Corpus_luteum
- FMA:18619
- NCIT:C26465
- SCTID:257943001
- CALOHA:TS-0181
- GAID:369
- UMLS:C0010092 (ncithesaurus:Corpus_Luteum)
- MESH:D003338
- EMAPA:29886
- MA:0002834
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7762
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
maintains the endometrium in mammals[WP]. A corpus luteum is known in hagfish (100), Squalus (101), and salamander (100) but not lamprey (102). There are no data for Branchiostoma and Ciona, and given that they are multiple spawners, there is no a priori reason to conclude that they lack a corpus luteum
Term relations
- female reproductive organ
- endocrine gland
- female reproductive gland
- cellular anatomical structure
- mesoderm-derived structure
- part of some ovary
- has part some luteal cell
- only in taxon some Mammalia
- develops from some ovarian follicle
- capable of some progesterone secretion