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theca cell

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000503


A flattened stroma cell forming a sheath or theca outside the basal lamina lining the mature ovarian follicle. Thecal interstitial or stromal cells are steroidogenic, and produce primarily androgens which serve as precusors of estrogens in the granulosa cells. [ MESH:D013799 ]

Term info

database cross reference
  • FMA:18690
  • BTO:0002850
Subsets

human_reference_atlas

prefLabel

Theca lutein cell

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606