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Human Ovary oocyte number from embryo to adult
The graph shows the changes in human germ cell numbers in the ovary with age, peaking at about 7 million (occuring in early fetal development) and then decreasing by apopotic cell death. At puberty there remain only about 400,000 and only about 10% of these will be released through reproductive life. Based on data from[1]
A recent study (2010)[2] based on analysis of a number of earlier histological study data, suggest that the above graphed total figures maybe an overestimate and much lower initially (about 2.5 million) than suggested in this simple graph, see Non-growing follicle model.
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