Table 2.

Influence of the aberrant gonadotropin action on the folliculogenesis. In each case the condition has been compared with the situation in a wild type mouse

	Loss of FSH action	Increased FSH action	Loss of LH action	Increased LH/hCG action	References
	Postnatal mouse
Amount of naked oocytes; initial primordial folliculogenesis	Decreased	Increased	dna	dna	[11, 14]
The initial recruitment	Increased	dna	dna	dna	[14]
	Peripubertal and adult mouse
The pool of primordial follicles	Larger	Decreased	Larger	Decreased	[14, 16–18]
Number of small follicles (primary to preantral)	Decreased	Decreased	dna	Decreased	[14, 16–18]
Number of antral follicles	No antral follicles	Increased in young mature animals	Only early antral follicles	No effect	[1–6, 17, 18]
Presence of hemorrhagic follicles	Not reported	Yes	Not reported	Yes	[18, 24, 30–32]

dna data not available