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Normal ovarian function in reproductive-aged women is dependent upon the presence of a store of functional primordial follicles.
The finding that the genes encoding the three types of BMP receptors are expressed in primordial follicles indicates that these fundamental reproductive units are targets for the BMPs.
Antral follicles not exhibiting these obvious indications of atresia were classified as developing.
The study tested the hypothesis that females exposed to male scentmarks will have greater somatic growth and their ovaries will contain developing antral follicles in greater numbers and larger in size than those found in ovaries from females of the same age exposed only to the ambient social stimuli of the colony.
Also, the size distribution of follicles in exposed females at 130 days was markedly different from that observed in other groups (Fig.