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We examined the ultrastructural characteristics of the medullary steroidogenic cells in left and right female gonads of surgically bursectomized chick embryos killed on the 17th day of incubation. The steroidogenic cells of the bursectomized embryos have a more developed system of cisternae in the smooth endoplasmic reticulum than controls, and their mitochondria show some alterations in the density of the matrix and in the shape of the cristae. On the basis of these results, an enhancement of the steroidogenic activity in both gonads is suggested.
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Civinini, A., Gallo, V.P. & Petrucci, S. Chick gonadogenesis following early surgical bursectomy. Anat Embryol 190, 439–444 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00235490
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