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SUBMITTER: Chaffin CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3473200 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chaffin Charles L CL Lee Young S YS VandeVoort Catherine A CA Patel Bela G BG Latham Keith E KE
Endocrinology 20120924 11
Follicular somatic cells (mural granulosa cells and cumulus cells) and the oocyte communicate through paracrine interactions and through direct gap junctions between oocyte and cumulus cells. Considering that mural and cumulus cells arise through a common developmental pathway and that their differentiation is essential to reproductive success, understanding how these cells differ is a key aspect to understanding their critical functions. Changes in global gene expression before and after an ovu ...[more]