Clinical applications in the area of contraceptive development

The ovary is not necessarily a prime locus for regulating reproductive function but in the process of understanding various aspects of ovarian function, opportunities have arisen to test both the role of specific functions in the reproductive process and the possible use of a given function as a site for contraceptive regulation. Better understanding of corpus luteum physiology from receptor site-gonadotropin interaction to natural luteolytic processes still hold promise for contraceptive development.