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Cell–cell interaction and oocyte growth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2008
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In most mammals, oocytes initiate meiosis in late fetal life; by the time of birthe they have already entered the diplotene stage of prophase I of meiosis and becaome arrested thereafter at the dictyate state(Baker, 1972). At this stage they became surrounded by a few nonproliferating flat follicle cells forming a unit called the resting or primordial follicle.
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