Depletion of Ovarian Follicles with Age in Chimpanzees: Similarities to Humans1

K. P. Jones; L. C. Walker; D. Anderson; A. Lacreuse; S. L. Robson; K. Hawkes

doi:10.1095/biolreprod.106.059634

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K. P. Jones,¹ L. C. Walker,² D. Anderson,² A. Lacreuse,^2,3 S. L. Robson,⁴ K. Hawkes^4,*

¹aUniversity of Utah School of Medicine,3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Salt Lake City, Ut
²bYerkes National Primate Research Center,4 Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30329-4208
³cDepartment of Psychology,5 University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
⁴dDepartment of Anthropology,6 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0060

^*K. Hawkes, University of Utah, Department of Anthropology, 270 South 1400 East Stewart 102, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. FAX: 801 581 6252; e-mail: hawkes@anthro.utah.edu

Abstract

We retrieved ovarian sections taken from necropsies of 19 captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) aged 0–47 yr, counted the number of primordial follicles in each, and compared the rate of decline in numbers to declines previously documented in humans. The follicular depletion rate in this sample was indistinguishable from that shown across the same ages in classic human data sets. This result supports earlier suggestions that ovarian senescence occurs at the same ages in chimpanzees and humans, implying that the influence of declining ovarian function on other physiologic systems may be distinctively buffered in humans.

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K. P. Jones, L. C. Walker, D. Anderson, A. Lacreuse, S. L. Robson, and K. Hawkes "Depletion of Ovarian Follicles with Age in Chimpanzees: Similarities to Humans," Biology of Reproduction 77(2), 247-251, (1 July 2007). https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.106.059634

Received: 19 December 2006; Accepted: 1 April 2007; Published: 1 July 2007

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