The murine primordial follicle pool develops largely within 3 days after birth through germline nest breakdown and enclosure of oocytes within pregranulosa cells. The mechanisms that trigger primordial follicle formation likely are influenced by a transition from the maternal to fetal hormonal milieu at the time of birth. High levels of maternal estrogen maintain intact germline nest in fetal o...

Introduction Reduction of ovarian reserve has been observed in childhood-onset SLE (c-SLE) and adult SLE populations, and most of them were limited to follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) levels and few recent reports included antral follicle count (AFC) and/or anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels. In addition, the contribution of diminished follicle ovarian pool using anti-corpus luteum antibodie...

The accuracy of Follicle Stimulating Hormone as a predictor of azoospermia in adult survivors of childhood cancer is unclear, with conflicting results in the published literature. A systematic review and post hoc analysis of combined data (n = 367) were performed on all published studies containing extractable data on both serum Follicle Stimulating Hormone concentration and semen concentration...

background: this study aimed to evaluate the strength of anti?mullerian hormone (amh) and follicle stimulating hormone (fsh) in reflecting the antral follicle count (afc) in infertile females. materials and methods: this cross?sectional study was conducted on 160 females, visiting infertility clinic for assisted reproduction. serum samples collected on the 3rd day of the cycle were assayed for ...

The mechanical method to isolate preantral follicle has been reported for many years. However, the culture systems in vitro are still unstable. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of the culture system of mice preantral follicles on the follicular development in vitro. The results showed that the 96-well plate system was the most effective method for mice follicle development in vit...

The interaction of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) with its cognate G-protein coupled receptor, the follicle stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR) is crucial for folliculogenesis in females and spermatogenesis in males. This necessitates the delineation of the hormone-receptor interaction in greater detail at the molecular level. Several strategies have been employed over last two decades to d...

Copyright © 2016 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/license s/by/4.0/ Abstract Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is a kind of glycoprotein gonadotropin, and plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility. Follicle stimulating hormon...

During the natural ovarian cycle, different pituitary hormones are responsible for follicle recruitment and growth. In the early follicular phase, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is responsible for early follicular growth and development. However, in the middle or late phase, reduction in FSH levels will occur and LH gains the more important role. The more COH protocol can mimic the natural ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) on survival, activation and growth of ovine primordial follicles using histological studies. Pieces of ovine ovarian cortex were obtained and cultured for 6 days in Minimum Essential Medium supplemented with or without FSH (50 ng/mL). These fragments were then process to be used for histology compar...