Germ cells and sex cord stromal cells form when a fetus (baby) is developing. A fetus is made from a sperm cell and an egg cell. Germ cell tumors (GCTs) are also known as germ cell cancer. Germ cells ...

Mature teratomas are the most common type of ovarian germ cell tumour. They are non cancerous (benign). Mature teratoma is also often called an ovarian dermoid cyst. They are most common in women ...

Figure 1: Deletion of exon 11 of Brca1 from mouse germ line. Figure 4: Effects of Brca1-Δ11 mutation on gene expression, tumorigenesis, cell survival and proliferation, and G 1 –S cell cycle ...