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Antral follicle count reliably predicts number of morphologically healthy oocytes and follicles in ovaries of young adult cattle.
Biology of reproduction - 1 Dec 2008
Ireland J L H, Scheetz D, Jimenez-Krassel F, Themmen A P N, Ward F, Lonergan P, Smith G W, Perez G I, Evans A C O, Ireland J J
Abstract excerpt
Methods to predict numbers of healthy oocytes in the ovaries of young adults could have important diagnostic relevance in family planning and animal agriculture. We have observed that peak antral follicle count (AFC) determined by serial ovarian ultrasonography during follicular waves is very highly reproducible within individual young adult cattle, despite 7-fold variation among animals. Herein, we tested the...
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