CELL-DEATH AND SURVIVAL DURING OVARIAN FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT

Authors
MCGEE EA HSU SY KAIPIA A HSUEH AJW
Citation
Ea. Mcgee et al., CELL-DEATH AND SURVIVAL DURING OVARIAN FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT, Molecular and cellular endocrinology, 140(1-2), 1998, pp. 15-18
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Endocrynology & Metabolism","Cell Biology
Journal title
Molecular and cellular endocrinology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03037207
Volume
140
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
15 - 18
Database
ISI
SICI code
0303-7207(1998)140:1-2<15:CASDOF>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Mammalian germ cells arise in the yolk sac endoderm at the caudal aspe ct of the embryo and migrate to the mesodermally-derived gonadal ridge early in development. After the oogonia reach the gonadal ridge, the process of meiosis begins which coincides with the first major wave of apoptosis of female germ cells (Coucouvanis et al., 1993). Subsequent ly, oocytes progress to the dictyate stage of prophase I where they re main arrested until ovulation. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.