OBJECTIVE Ovarian granulosa cell tumors are rare malignancies with a relatively favorable prognosis. However, patients still suffer from disease-related mortality. Therefore, the prognostic factors should be clarified. The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical and pathologic characteristics related with disease recurrence and mortality in adult type ovarian granulosa cell tumors...

Little is known about the pathogenesis of ovarian granulosa cell tumors. Recently, we reported the identification of a somatic FOXL2 402C-->G mutation that is present in virtually all adult-type granulosa cell tumors, but not in a wide range of other tumor types. This finding has important implications for the diagnosis and classification of ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors, provides insight int...

Lanthanum tracer and freeze-fracture electron microscope techniques were used to study junctional complexes between granulosa cells during the differentiation of the rabbit ovarian follicle. For convenience we refer to cells encompassing the oocyte, before antrum and gap junction formation, as follicle cells. After the appearance of an antrum and gap junctions we call the cells granulosa cells....

OBJECTIVES Subjective ultrasonographic assessment is currently considered to be the best method of differentiation between various types of ovarian tumors. The aim of the study was to evaluate selected ultrasonographic features and CA125 levels of hormonally active ovarian tumors. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 1135 women with ovarian tumors were diagnosed between 2006 and 2014 at the Divisi...

To investigate the early ovarian changes after cyclophosphamide treatment, immature rats primed for 48 h with pregnant mare serum gonadotropin were given injections i.p. of cyclophosphamide (100 mg/kg) at 1, 2, 4, 16, and 24 h before decapitation. Serum estradiol dropped significantly after 24 h of exposure to cyclophosphamide (P less than 0.001). Following 16 and 24 h of cyclophosphamide expos...

Expression of Bcl-x protein was evaluated in hen ovarian follicles, relative to stage of development, and in cultured granulosa cells after treatment with various apoptosis-suppressing or -inducing agents. Using Western blot analysis, Bcl-X(LONG) was most frequently observed migrating as a doublet with a molecular mass of approximately 28 kDa; the apparent higher molecular mass band of this dou...

Activation of a limited pool of diminishing ovarian follicles determines women's reproductive lifespan. A recent rodent study describes the role of mTOR signaling and KIT ligand in granulosa cells of primordial follicles for follicle activation and for reproductive lifespan regulation.

As a result of searching recently available chicken (ch) expressed sequence tag databases, a new Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Super Family (TNFRSF) member with similarity to the murine (m) TNFRSF23 decoy receptor (DcR) has been identified. However, by comparison with the mTNFRSF23, there exist at least two splice variants of chTNFRSF23, one of which includes an intracellular death domain (TNF...

Abstract Several hypotheses have been proposed, relating to the potential genesis of follicular cells in ovarian niche. Reports using mice as an experimental model suggested that ovaries may contain stem are likely involved formation new follicles adult reproductive life. Over recent years, various types identified and described confirm or disprove existence cells. Most research is focused on g...

Genetic ablation of connexin37 (Cx37) or connexin43 (Cx43), the two gap junction proteins expressed by mouse ovarian granulosa cells, has been shown to result in impaired follicle development. We used patch-clamp techniques to evaluate quantitatively the contribution of these connexins to gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) among granulosa cells. The coupling conductance derived f...