Breakthrough Discovery: First-Ever Detailed Video Captures Real-Time Ovulation Process in Mice

Scientists have been able to film, for the first time, the process by which eggs are released from the ovaries during ovulation. The moment was captured in unprecedented detail.

Complete ovulation in real time was filmed for the first time in detail.

The process by which eggs are released from the ovaries during ovulation was captured on the side of the study. published recently in Nature Cell Biology.

In the video, you will see a mature mouse egg to be ejected explosively from its fluid-filled sac—called a follicle—into a laboratory dish.

How is the Living scienceon the side of the same study, the follicles were then isolated from rats and cultured in Petri dishes, and then induced to ovulate with special hormones.

This method allowed researchers to observe ovulation, which occurs in a similar in humans and mice.

Usually, women of childbearing age release a mature egg from the ovaries to the fallopian tubes around the 14th day of the menstrual cycle (28 days), then to be pregnant; or leading to menstruationif fertilization does not occur.

Scientists have been struggling for years to study the mechanisms that control ovulation in living organisms, because the process takes place “deep in the body”.

Melina’s shoesone of the authors of the study and director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, in Germany, highlights the strength of the ovulation process, which works independently of the rest of the ovary.

“Our findings show that ovulation is an extremely robust process. Although external stimulation is essential to induce ovulation, the following processes work independently of the rest of the ovary, since all the necessary information is in the follicle itself,” he said, quoted by Live Science.

The researcher hopes that this new imaging technique will pave the way for a better understanding of ovulation and female pregnancyenabling future research in the field of reproductive health: “With our new method, we and other researchers can continue to study the mechanisms of ovulation and, hopefully, gain new insights into human fertility research.”