Apoptosis and ovarian function

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For decades, the mechanisms responsible for germ cell depletion from the ovary, either directly during the perinatal period or indirectly via follicular atresia during postnatal life, have remained relatively obscure. The recent application of sensitive biochemical techniques for the study of cell death to the analysis of ovarian function has revealed that these two events, as well as a third instance of ovarian...

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