“…Oestrogen receptors are present in the hypothalamus, olfactory lobe, amygdala, hippocampus, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, pituitary gland, bone tissue (osteoblasts and osteoclasts), the cardiovascular system, and the liver. A high ERa expression was observed in: endometrial glandular epithelium, mammary glands, pituitary gland, adrenal glands, endothelium, and vascular smooth muscle (ERa plays a more important role in cardioprotection than ERb, considering the participation in vasodilatation, neovascularisation, and weakening cell apoptosis in the cardiac muscle [7]), as well as the liver and testis.However, a high ERb expression was found in the kidneys, gastric and duodenal mucosa, small intestine, colon, rectum, lungs, spleen, peripheral blood leukocytes, bone marrow, prostate, urinary bladder, and ovary: in granular cells, in the cells of areola and in the corpus luteum. The ERa expression in ovarian granular cells is considerably lower, but it does not occur at all in the thecal cells.…”