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SUBMITTER: Chen Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7554314 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Yao Y Yang Weina W Shi Xu X Zhang Chenlu C Song Ge G Huang Donghui D
Frontiers in cell and developmental biology 20200930
Mammalian ovaries consist of follicles as basic functional units. Each follicle comprised an innermost oocyte and several surrounding flattened granulosa cells. Unlike males, according to the initial size of the primordial follicle pool and the rate of its activation and depletion, a female's reproductive life has been determined early in life. Primordial follicles, once activated, will get into an irreversible process of development. Most follicles undergo atretic degeneration, and only a few o ...[more]