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Called the granulosa cells, they act as a kind of communication system helping to direct egg production and growth.

Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

Membrana granulosa: the follicular cells proliferate to form several layers these constitute the Membrana granulosa and the cells called granulosa cells.

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Cells called granulosa cells, which surround the oocyte, receive the FSH; these cells excrete other factors that 'feed' the oocyte.

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(so-called granulosa) cells secrete a yellow substance, lutein, and enlarge.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

The wall of the follicle consists, in the mammal, of several layers of cells, the membrana granulosa (or "granulosa" simply); the ovum lies on its outer side embedded in a mass of cells, discus proligerus, separated from actual contact with the ovum by a zona pellucida.

Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

Carr, M.C.: Juvenile granulosa cell tumor of the testis: new paradigms for management.

Publications of the Urology Division 2010

The only organisms on Earth that can eat T. granulosa newts and survive are some T. sirtalis garter snakes.

Science, and possibly reality 2005

One-thirtieth of the TTX normally found in a T. granulosa newt is enough to kill the average human being.

Science, and possibly reality 2005

They are: Ypthima granulosa, Acraea dammii, Euphaedra orientalis and Teniorhinus herilus.

Zambezian coastal flooded savanna 2007

The Taricha newts of western North America are particularly toxic; the Rough-skinned Newt Taricha granulosa of the Pacific Northwest produces enough tetrodotoxin to kill an adult human foolish enough to swallow a newt.

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