BIOC19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Folliculogenesis, Oogenesis, Granulosa Cell

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Throughout oogenesis, it starts off during embryonic development, then it stops, starts again, and then stops, and the third start up only happens and finishes after fertilization by sperm. In oogenesis, after meiosis i, we get unequal division, which gives up an oocyte, and a polar body. Ovary: 2 main functions are interrelated, oogenesis (production of haploid female gametes, production of steroid hormones (estrogen and progesterone, blood vessels bring blood to and from ovaries. They go through the medulla, central core of the ovary. Then we go up to cortex, outer layer of ovary where all stages of egg development occur: primordial follicles develop into primary follicles, which develop into secondary follicles. The secondary develop into larger structures, called vesicular follicles (graafian); graafian follicles turn into ovulated oocyte. Steroid hormones: estrogen promotes growth and maturation of internal and external sex organs. Responsible for female characteristics that develop at puberty: progesterone prepares uterus for pregnancy.

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