Sentences with phrase «immature follicles»

I also do not have increased testosterone levels however I have 35 cysts and immature follicles on one ovary and a few on the other.

Instead, tiny immature follicles surround the ovaries, appearing like a strand of pearls on an ultrasound.

She did a transvaginal ultrasound, which revealed the classic multiple tiny immature follicles around my ovaries.

«Methods for culturing immature follicles (eggs) are already rewarding effort in terms of a better understanding of ovarian biology,» concludes Roger Gosden, an embryologist at the University of Edinburgh and Britain's leading researcher in this field.

Seeing these discouraging results, Woodruff and colleague Lonnie Shea, a materials scientist, suggested suspending individual immature follicles in tiny beads of alginate, a substance derived from brown algae and commonly used as an ice cream thickener.

While individual, already - developed eggs die easily when frozen, immature follicle eggs embedded in the ovarian tissue fare a lot better.

Not exact matches

Then came a new step: They carefully extracted the fragile, immature eggs and some surrounding cells from the follicles, and allowed them to further mature on a special membrane in the presence of more growth - supporting proteins.

Around the time of birth these germ cells have formed a large reserve of primordial follicles — each containing a single immature egg.

That ovarian tissue bears clusters of cells known as primordial follicles, which surround immature precursors to egg cells.

That geometry directly links to whether or not the ovarian follicles, organized hormone - producing support cells surrounding an immature egg cell, will survive in the ovary, which was one of the bigger findings in the study.

In biology, folliculogenesis refers to the maturation of the ovarian follicle, a densely - packed shell of somatic cells that contains an immature oocyte.

This typically causes the follicles to be immature and poor quality.

This technology requires technical skills that are typically not offered by veterinary practices and includes aspiration of immature or mature eggs from mares using ultrasound - guided transvaginal aspiration (TVA) of follicles, in vitro culture of the eggs, micromanipulation and microinjection of eggs with a single selected sperm, and embryo culture in the laboratory, with freezing, and transfer of embryos to synchronized recipient mares.