"Ovary" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The reproductive organ (GONADS) in female animals. In vertebrates, the ovary contains two functional parts: the OVARIAN FOLLICLE for the production of female germ cells (OOGENESIS); and the endocrine cells (GRANULOSA CELLS; THECA CELLS; and LUTEAL CELLS) for the production of ESTROGENS and PROGESTERONE.
| Descriptor ID |
D010053
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A05.360.319.114.630 A05.360.576.497 A06.407.312.497
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ovary" by people in Profiles.
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Testis- and ovary-expressed polo-like kinase transcripts and gene duplications affect male fertility when expressed in the Drosophila melanogaster germline. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 Jan 08; 15(1).
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QTL mapping of natural variation reveals that the developmental regulator bruno reduces tolerance to P-element transposition in the Drosophila female germline. PLoS Biol. 2018 10; 16(10):e2006040.
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Estrogen receptor ? exon 3-deleted mouse: The importance of non-ERE pathways in ER? signaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Apr 21; 112(16):5135-40.