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injections of commercial extract, the uterine atrophy which followed 

 ovariotomy being in no degree diminished. 







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FIG. 96A. Section through rat's kidney, into the tissue of which an ovary 

 had been transplanted. (From Marshall and Jolly, (}uar. Jour, of 

 Experimental Physiology.') 



at; Artery ; c.l. t corpus luteum ; g.r., Graafian follicle ; gl., glomerulus of 

 kidney ; ov.st., ovarian stroma ; r.t., renal tubule ; z.fl.t., zone of 

 granulation tissue between ovarian tissue and tissue of kidney. 



It has been shown that 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 



