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injections of commercial extract, the uterine atrophy which followed 

 ovariotomy being in no degree diminished. 







FIG. 96A. Section through rat's kidney, into the tissue .,f \\hi. h an <>\ar\ 

 had been transplanted. (From Marshall and Jolly, <^KI,-. ./<//>. </; 



"/, Artery ; eZ, corpus luteum ; /./.,< Jniatian follicle; <//., <rl<>nicrulus of 

 kidney; ov.st., ovarian stroina ; >:(., renal tulmlc ; -..g.t., /one of 

 granulation tissue between ovarian tissue and tissue of kidm-v . 



It has been shown tliat the ovary possesses considerable capacity 

 for regenerating tissue after partial removal, and also that if one 

 ovary is extirpated the remaining one may undergo an apparent 

 increase in size, which is probably of the nature of a compensatory 



