The Role of Ovarian Factors in the Regulation of Metabolism
Leonie van Houten · EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) · 2014
markdownabstract__Abstract__ The ovary, or female gonad, plays a central role in the production of the female gametes, the oocytes, and is the major organ where sex steroid hormones are produced in females. In humans, the oocytes are produced from a limiting primordial follicle pool, which is established before birth. From the primordial follicle pool follicles are continuously recruited to develop through primary and secondary stages to become antral follicles. After puberty, when menstrual cycling has commenced, at each cycle, follicles will be recruited from this g