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AgResearch Invermay, Department of Anatomy, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Robinson Research Institute, Puddle Alley, Mosgiel 9053, New Zealand
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important implications for human health and the livestock industry. With respect to the ovary, pre-natal exposure to contaminants has been implicated in human polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the leading cause of anovulatory infertility in women, as well as
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Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Center for Human Reproduction, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, PO Box 693, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
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enhances follicular development and dysfunctional formation of antral follicles leading to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), low androgen levels may be associated with abnormalities of follicular growth, low functional ovarian reserve (LFOR) and primary
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Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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Introduction RFamide-related peptide (also known as gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone, GnIH) is a neuropeptide that is present in human brain and gonads and is known to act on human ovary ( Tsutsui et al . 2007 , Tsutsui 2009 , Ubuka et al
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Introduction Previous work has demonstrated that during the subfertility period in rats, the content of norepinephrine in the ovary increases ( Chavez-Genaro et al . 2007 , Acuna et al . 2009 ), which is accompanied by an increase in the
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and killed at the end of treatment by cervical dislocation. All animal procedures were approved by the Local Ethics Committee for Animal Research. The ovaries were quickly removed, fixed in Bouin’s liquid (for morphological evaluation) or 4
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Olson Center for Women’s Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 985860 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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Introduction In the mammalian ovary, the primordial follicle is a non-growing, non-dividing oocyte surrounded by squamous granulosa cells that are not yet steroidogenic. The number of primordial follicles is established at birth and forms the
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et al . 2012 ). The expression of some FGF family members in the ovary is tissue specific and others are widely expressed; for example, FGF7 is expressed in theca cells but not granulosa cells or oocytes ( Parrott et al . 1994 ), whereas FGFR2 is
Facultad de Ingeniería y Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina
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) works as a neural communication link between the central nervous system (CNS) and the ovaries ( Gerendai et al. 2005 , 2009 ), with considerable plasticity during the estrous cycle ( Robins et al. 1992 , Morán et al. 2005 ). The ovarian
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several species, that prenatal androgen excess can program metabolic, endocrine and reproductive disturbances at postnatal life, and lead to the development of phenotypes that resemble the features of human polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) ( Padmanabhan
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Introduction Mammalian ovaries are endowed with a finite number of oocytes during early development. The dormant oocytes are encapsulated by pre-granulosa cells in structures known as primordial follicles. Primordial follicles are released