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Apoptosis of germ cells during human prenatal oogenesis
1 Oct 1997
Abstract excerpt
During human oogenesis two contrasting processes can be observed: germ cell proliferation and differentiation, and contemporaneous germ cell death. It is well known that apoptosis is a type of physiological cell death that occurs in proliferating and differentiating tissues. The aim of this study is to demonstrate, through ultrastructural and in-situ 3' end labelling observations in intact sections of human fetal...
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