How the 2 ovaries coordinate to release only one egg in a single cycle?

Subject: How the 2 ovaries coordinate to release only one egg in a single cycle?

Date: Sat Sep 25 13:45:40 1999
Posted by Faisal Nahri
Grade level: undergrad School: Hamdard College of Medicine & Dentistry
City: Karachi State/Province: No state entered. Country: Pakistan
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 938281540.Gb

Message:


In a single menstrual cycle (28 days) in a female, only one egg is 
released by one of the 2 ovaries. But actually both the ovaries are 
capable of carrying out the whole processes of follicular development. So 
how do the 2 ovaries coordinate with each other so that one of them 
releases an egg whereas other keeps its activity suppressed? What are the 
factors that keep the other ovary from releasing egg in the same cycle?

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