Sentences with phrase «by granulosa»

The prolonged heat may also be the result of persistent high level of estrogen provoked by an ovarian cyst or by a granulosa cell tumor of the ovary.

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Van Blerkom had been seeing hints of polarity since the 1970s, but one of the major turning points occurred in 1996 when, by accident, his lab discovered that cells surrounding the developing egg — the same granulosa cells that had piqued Albertini's interest — possessed a receptor very similar to the leptin receptor.

FGF2 and its receptors have been shown to be expressed at the protein level by both oocytes and granulosa cells up to secondary follicles [28], but the expression patterns in antral follicles have not been studied to date.

By the end of the follicular phase, the luteinizing hormone surge results in ejection of the oocyte and transforms the remaining follicle into the corpus luteum; small and large luteal cells are formed from theca and granulosa cells, respectively.