Sentences with phrase «surrounding granulosa»

In fact, Albertini has preliminary evidence suggesting that the communication between the egg cell and its surrounding granulosa cells rises and falls in a precise monthly cycle.

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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.

Albertini and his colleagues noticed that the interaction between the oocyte and the cells surrounding it was not symmetrical; there were more cells — and, it would turn out, more molecular back - and - forth traffic between the egg and the granulosa cells — at certain regions on the egg.

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.