Sentences with phrase «for granulosa»

Some studies have found breeds like Boxers, German Shepherds, Yorkshire Terriers, English Bulldogs to be at an increased risk for granulosa - theca cell tumors, a type of sex cord stromal cell tumor.

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From the time an egg begins to develop in one of a woman's ovaries, the granulosa cells serve as a communication system — signaling, for example, when the egg needs nutrients and proteins.
If you believe, for example, that granulosa cells and other very early features of ovarian ecology set up the polarities that ultimately determine the quality of a human egg, as Albertini does, then certain techniques widely used in IVF may be subtly perturbing the very mechanisms that eggs use to establish a plan to build an embryo and maximize the chances that it will develop properly.
A mature egg, ready for fertilization, is covered with clusters of granulosa cells.
Thompson, RR, Tokar, Z, * Pistohl, D * Moore, FL. (1999) Behavioral evidence for a sex - pheremone in roughskin newts, Taricha granulosa.
Once recruited, it takes more than 300 days for a follicle to complete the preantral period, during which time granulosa cells replicate and theca cells are recruited.
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