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Contribution of a mathematical modelling approach to the understanding of the ovarian function
- Source :
- Comptes Rendus Biologies. 325:473-485
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2002.
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Abstract
- The biological meaning of folliculogenesis is to free fertilisable oocytes at the time of ovulation. We approached the study of the control of follicular development at the level of follicular granulosa cells, on the experimental as well as mathematical modelling grounds. We built a mathematical model allowing for the processes of proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. State variables correspond to the numbers of cells undergoing these different processes, while control variables correspond to the cellular transition rates. The model results raised the notion of proliferative resources, which leads to consider the optimal management of these resources and has motivated the settling of an experiment investigating the changes in the growth fraction within the granulosa throughout terminal development. We are now investigating the way gonadotrophins, and especially FSH, operate on granulosa cells, in order to account for the hormonal control of the divergent commitment of granulosa cells towards either proliferation, differentiation or apoptosis. We are thus focusing on the dynamics of cAMP production, which appears to be a keypoint in FSH signal transduction.
- Subjects :
- Ovulation
endocrine system
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
Granulosa cell
Cellular differentiation
Follicular Atresia
Apoptosis
Biology
Models, Biological
Follicular cell
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Ovarian Follicle
Internal medicine
Follicular phase
medicine
Animals
Ovarian follicle
media_common
Granulosa Cells
Sheep
General Immunology and Microbiology
Follicular atresia
Cell Cycle
Ovary
Cell Differentiation
General Medicine
Cell biology
Endocrinology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Pituitary Gland
Female
Folliculogenesis
Follicle Stimulating Hormone
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Cell Division
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16310691
- Volume :
- 325
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Comptes Rendus Biologies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1d8a3922276401c200875b1cafb25094