Table 2.

Mean number of follicles after in vitro organotypic culture of cryopreserved whole ovaries in presence of pharmacological inhibitors

	CT	LY	Ra
24 h
Primordial	20.53 ± 1.906	21.22 ± 1.584b	26.81 ± 1.516a
Primary	16.61 ± 3.265	8.993 ± 2.302	7.72 ± 1.348
Secondary or more	42.37 ± 2.56	48.65 ± 3.192b	38.73 ± 2.397

Ovaries from Nu/Nu mice, 4-weeks old, n = 5 ovaries per group

Results are expressed in percentage of primordial, primary and secondary or more mature follicles relative to the total number of follicles present in one ovarian slide. Mean ± SEM

CT Control, LY LY294002, Ra Rapamycin

^adifferent from CT, ^bdifferent from Ra