ovarian

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Examples

• For the cells to mature, the team had to incubate them with fresh ovarian tissue from mice—a workaround that’s both a bit icky and totally impractical for any future infertility treatments.

• When the woman is ready for pregnancy, she returns to the lab to have her ovarian tissue thawed and returned to the ovary.

• Further complicating the whole process was the fact that I’d need to take at least a month off from running to avoid ovarian torsion, a condition in which the ovary twists around the ligaments that holds it, cutting off blood flow.

• Lanier has been involved in several high-profile lawsuits, including a case in which 22 women claimed Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer.

• A turning point came some 25 years ago, when her close friend Carol contracted ovarian cancer.

• Must both ovarian and testicular tissue be present for a person to be “counted”?

• Women with HBOC hold a lifetime risk of 50-85 percent for breast cancer and 15-40 percent for ovarian cancer.

• Her mother, after a nearly decade-long struggle, succumbed to ovarian cancer in 2007 at age 56.

• Aspirin inhibits ovarian-tumor cell growth by as much as 68 percent.

• Also present are numerous ovarian eggs having diameters up to about 3.5 mm.

• In medium-sized ovarian eggs this network is very easily seen, and extends through the whole yolk.

• This area will be spoken of as the ovarian area or region, since the primitive ova are confined to it.

• The right ovarian ridge, which will henceforth alone engage our attention, has grown very considerably.

• The ovarian region grows somewhat in breadth, though in this respect different embryos vary considerably.