Figure 7.

Reversibility of the starvation effect on the body size and ovarian follicle pool. (a) Starved pups compared with normal littermate after standard diet restoring. (b) Body weight and length of starved and control pups (n=3). (c) Representative IF for the germ cell marker MVH in tissue sections of control and starved ovaries after 7 d.p.p., 14 d.p.p. and 21 d.p.p. from standard diet restoring. (d) Quantification of the number of primordial, primary, secondary and antral follicles in control and starved ovaries after 7 d.p.p., 14 d.p.p. and 21 d.p.p. from standard diet restoring. All the experiments were repeated at least three times. *P<0.05; **P<0.01