Fig. 5

Serum hormone levels in the excised ovaries of rats after coculture with PD-MSCs. a Schematic illustration of how the ex vivo coculture system was established. One half of the rat ovary was cultured with or without PD-MSCs for 24, 48, and 72 h. The levels of b AMH and c FSH in the supernatants at 24, 48, and 72 h after PD-MSC coculture were analyzed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (mean ± SE). All experiments were performed in triplicate. Significance at p < 0.05 is indicated by an asterisk (*) for NTx vs. others and a number sign (#) for DTx vs. TTx