Before staining with HE for histopathology, mouse ovaries were kept and fixed. The ovarian histological changes were observed by light microscopy (Olympus). We counted the follicles containing obvious nucleus in the experiment, which were divided into primordial, primary, secondary, antral, and atretic follicles, which were described before [3, 34].
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