ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDIES ON FETAL AND EARLY POSTNATAL MOUSE OVARIES .1. HISTOGENESIS AND ORGANOGENESIS
ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDIES ON FETAL AND EARLY POSTNATAL MOUSE OVARIES .1. HISTOGENESIS AND ORGANOGENESIS
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DOI:
10.1002/aja.1001240204
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发表时间:
1969-01-01
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BLANDAU, RJ
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作者:
ODOR, DL;BLANDAU, RJ
Ovaries of fetal mice obtained during the twelfth to eighteenth day of gestation and from the first to third postnatal day have been studied by electron microscopy. The interrelationships of follicle cells to oogonia and to connective tissue cells have received special attention. On day 12, when the female gonad can first be distinguished, relatively few large oogonia are visible. These are loosely aggregated and are accompanied by only a few follicle cells. On days 13 and 14 loose groups of oogonia become better demonstrated, and now are always surrounded peripherally by follicle cells. Beginning on day 14 very thin cytoplasmic processes of the follicle cells are interposed between adjacent oiigonia. Subsequently, by following this process the follicle cells are drawn into the groups of oogonia or oocytes. Increasing numbers of connective tissue cells and capillaries are growing into the cortex from the medulla and hilar regions. By day 18 and postnatal day 1 this ingrowth has separated the groups of oocytes and follicle cells further. By postnatal days 2 and 3 most oijcytes have become enclosed by a follicular epithelium of either flattened, cuboidal or columnar cells. Many stages of zona pellucida formation can be recognized. It is postulated that the manner of fetal and early postnatal differentiation of the ovary explains a number of follicular configurations which deviate from the normal. At no time have cords of cells been observed to originate from germinal epithelium. By contrast the underlying tunica albuginea is derived by ingrowth of cells from the medulla.Light microscopic studies concerned with fetal and early postnatal development of mammalian ovaries have emphasized germinal elements rather than the origin, differentiation and interrelationships of non-germinal cells. The most common view has been that the follicle cells originate from the germinal epithelium (Allen,'04; Hargitt,'25; Hartman,'26; Brambell,'27; Gillman,'48). During the era of these investigators it was believed also that the primordial germ cells themselves were derived from the germinal epithelium. How-ever, some earlier work suggested, and more recent evidence has indicated conclusively, that the primordial germ cells have an extra-gonadal origin and migrate by their own ameboid motion to the genital ridge (Everett,'43; Witschi,'48; Zuckerman,'51; Chiquoine,'54; Mintz,'57; Blandau, White and Rumery,'63). Since we believe this evidence to be firm, the present paper will not deal with the problem of the origin of germ cells.