oophyte

oophyte

(ˈəʊəˌfaɪt)
n
(Botany) the gametophyte in mosses, liverworts, and ferns
oophytic adj
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Among the growth factors, insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) maintains the pregnancy with the interaction between endometrium and embryo (Simmen et al., 1993), and it plays an important role in inhibiting the cell death of various cell types such as hematopoietic cells (Minshall et al., 1996), fibroblasts (Kulik et al., 1997) and oophytes (Morita et al., 1999).