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. 2021 Jul 13;22(14):7484. doi: 10.3390/ijms22147484

Figure 2.

Figure 2

“Burnout” theory of ovarian follicle reserve. The chemotherapy-induced PI3K/PTEN/Akt pathway activates the destruction of follicles, followed by an impairment of AMH and the loss of the suppression of the primordial follicle (PF) pool. Consequently, the PFs are activated to compensate for the decrease in the number of growing follicles.