Sentences with phrase «ovarian granulosa»

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The Colorado lab discovered that granulosa cells — the cells that surround maturing eggs in the ovarian follicles — were pumping out leptin and shipping it into the egg.

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.

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.

Tumors of ovarian stromal cells include granulosa cell tumors, thecomas and interstitial cell tumors (luteomas).