Solange Magre

TL;DR: Results do not support the hypothesis that SOX9 could trigger the expression of testicular AMH in the chick but does not exclude a later role in testis development, and potential SOX response elements were found in the AMH promoter.

TL;DR: The dispersed type of AMH expression in indifferent and female gonads appears to be bird‐specific and not controlled by the same factors as testicular or follicular AMH transcription.

TL;DR: This review reports current knowledge and proposes novel hypotheses that can be formulated from these models about the contribution of germ cells to ovarian differentiation and folliculogenesis, and promotes the idea that the influence of germ Cells on companion somatic cells varies within both ovarian differentiation

TL;DR: Using gamma-irradiation to selectively deplete oocytes in nongrowing follicles in female rats, it is shown that follicular cells in oocyte-depleted follicles survive, proliferate, and subsequently acquire morphological characteristics of SERToli cells: elongated cytoplasm, basal location of the nucleus, and specific Sertoli cell junctions, the ectoplasmic specializations.

TL;DR: The importance of pulsatility of GnRH action is closely related to, or dependent on, the inability of the GnRH receptor to desensitise, as multiple post-receptor events are crucial for both the regulation/plasticity of gonadotropic function and the maintenance of cell integrity.