Byskov A G, Skakkebaek N E, Stafanger G, Peters H
J Anat. 1977 Feb;123(Pt 1):77-86.
Early follicle development has been studied in mouse ovaries grafted to immunologically incompetent hosts. Early follicular formation and growth is apparently dependent on the presence of the rete ovarii: the surface epithelium does not seem to play a decisive role. This was shown in transplantation studies of fetal gonads which had been divided into parts with and without the rete ovarii. None of the rete-depleted ovaries exhibited normal follicular differentiation regardless of the presence or absence of the surface epithelium, whereas follicles developed normally in all the implants containing the rete system.
早期卵泡发育已在移植到免疫缺陷宿主的小鼠卵巢中进行了研究。早期卵泡的形成和生长显然依赖于卵巢网的存在：表面上皮似乎不发挥决定性作用。这在胎儿性腺的移植研究中得到了证实，这些胎儿性腺被分为含有和不含有卵巢网的部分。无论表面上皮是否存在，所有缺乏卵巢网的卵巢均未表现出正常的卵泡分化，而在所有含有卵巢网系统的植入物中卵泡均正常发育。
