Figure 7.

Effect of oral DBP exposure on ovarian follicle numbers. Adult cycling female CD-1 mice were treated daily with vehicle or DBP and their ovaries processed for H&E staining and follicle counting as described in Materials and Methods. Data are presented as the mean percent of total follicles counted ± SEM. Panel A shows data for healthy and atretic follicles, while panel B shows data for health preantral and panel C healthy antral follicles. Data were compared between treatments using Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric followed by Mann-Whitney post hoc test with significance set at p ≤ 0.05. Asterisk (^*) indicates statistical differences versus vehicle (p ≤ 0.05; n = 5–7 mice/treatment).