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Testis, epididymis, and vas deferens from each animal were snap frozen in liquid nitrogen, embedded in OCT or paraffin after standard formaldehyde fixation for sectioning.
Eyes from at least 2 mice of the listed strains were fixed (4% paraformaldehyde or Fekete's acid-alcohol-formalin fixative) processed, paraffin embedded and sectioned as previously reported [ 15 79 ] , except that the paraformaldehyde was buffered with 0.1 M phosphate buffer.
In situ hybridization was performed as previously described [ 22 ] . Rabbit uterus and kidney were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde, and embedded in paraffin.
Tissue Microarrays (TMAs), first introduced in 1998, are collections of hundreds of tissue cores arrayed into a single paraffin histology block [ 1 ] . Each TMA block can be sectioned and mounted onto glass slides, producing hundreds of nearly-identical slides.
Fetal ovaries, corpora lutea, and maternal interstitial/follicular (residual) tissues were fixed by immersion in 10% buffered formalin, washed in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), dehydrated in a graded series of ethanol, cleared in xylene, infiltrated with and embedded in paraffin wax, and sectioned at 6 μm thickness.