scholarly journals Coupled Somatic Cell Kinetics and Germ Cell Growth: Multiscale Model-Based Insight on Ovarian Follicular Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédérique Clément ◽  
Philippe Michel ◽  
Danielle Monniaux ◽  
Thomas Stiehl
1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Twagiramungu ◽  
L.A. Guilbault ◽  
J.G. Proulx ◽  
R. Ramkumar ◽  
J.J. Dufour

Author(s):  
R. Silvestrini ◽  
A. Costa ◽  
S. Pilotti ◽  
G. Pizzocaro

Development ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 126 (5) ◽  
pp. 1011-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.L. Gumienny ◽  
E. Lambie ◽  
E. Hartwieg ◽  
H.R. Horvitz ◽  
M.O. Hengartner

Development of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is highly reproducible and the fate of every somatic cell has been reported. We describe here a previously uncharacterized cell fate in C. elegans: we show that germ cells, which in hermaphrodites can differentiate into sperm and oocytes, also undergo apoptotic cell death. In adult hermaphrodites, over 300 germ cells die, using the same apoptotic execution machinery (ced-3, ced-4 and ced-9) as the previously described 131 somatic cell deaths. However, this machinery is activated by a distinct pathway, as loss of egl-1 function, which inhibits somatic cell death, does not affect germ cell apoptosis. Germ cell death requires ras/MAPK pathway activation and is used to maintain germline homeostasis. We suggest that apoptosis eliminates excess germ cells that acted as nurse cells to provide cytoplasmic components to maturing oocytes.


1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 299 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.Gómez Brunet ◽  
A.López Sebastián ◽  
A.González de Bulnes ◽  
J.Santiago Moreno ◽  
M.García López

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