| Table 1. Summary of follicular isolation methods in follicular culture studies. | |||
| Isolation | Species | Follicle - Stage | References |
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| Enzymatic | Bovine | Preantral (60–179µm) | Wandji et al., 1996 |
| Canine | Pre-and early antral (100–500µm) | Songsasen et al., 2011 | |
| Human | Preantral (90–240µm) | Yuan & Guidice, 1999 | |
| Immature and secondary (176.46±7.20µm) | Laronda et al., 2014 | ||
| Class I and II (90µm and <90µm) | Roy & Treacy, 1993 | ||
| Primordial/primary follicle (≤60µm) Primary/early secondary follicle (>60–120µm) Secondary (>120–250µm) |
Yin et al., 2016 | ||
| Small preantral follicles (42.98±9.06µm) | Amorim et al., 2009 | ||
| Murine | PGOC | Eppig, 1991 Diaz et al., 2007 O’Brien et al., 2003 |
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| PGOC and COC | Sugiura et al., 2010 Pangas et al., 2003 |
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| Secondary (100–130µm) | Desai et al., 2012 | ||
| Small follicles | Torrance et al., 1989 | ||
| Ovine | Primordial and primary (40–60µm) | Muruvi et al., 2005 | |
| Mechanical | Bovine | Preantral (≥190µm) | Araújo et al., 2015 |
| Preantral (166±2.15µm) | Gutierrez et al., 2000 | ||
| Preantral (190.0±6.6µm) | Araújo et al., 2014 | ||
| Secondary (268.6±4.5µm) | Antonino et al., 2019 | ||
| Preantral (145–170µm) | Itoh et al., 2002 | ||
| Secondary (≥150µm) | Rossetto et al., 2013a | ||
| Caprine | Secondary (≥150µm) | Rossetto et al., 2013a | |
| Preantral (>200µm) | Magalhães et al., 2011 | ||
| Preantral and early antral (~250µm, ~350µm) | Ferreira et al., 2016 | ||
| Preantral (150–250µm) | Silva et al., 2015 | ||
| Human | Secondary (≥100µm) | McLaughlin et al., 2014 | |
| Secondary (100–150µm) | McLaughlin et al., 2018 | ||
| Preantral (66–132µm) | Telfer et al., 2008 | ||
| Multi-layered secondary (165.8±32.3µm) | Xiao et al., 2015 | ||
| Preantral (>120µm) | Abir et al., 1997 | ||
| Marsupial | Primordial (63.6–215.5µm) | Nation & Selwood, 2009 | |
| Murine | Secondary (111–137µm) | Jin et al., 2010 | |
| Preantral (85–115µm) | Hornick et al., 2013 | ||
| Two-layered: (100–130µm); multi-layered: (150–180µm) | Kreeger et al., 2005; 2006 | ||
| Two-layered secondary (100–130µm) | Shikanov et al., 2009 Xu et al., 2006b Mainigi et al., 2011 |
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| Primary (60–80mm); two-layered (90–100µm) | Tagler et al., 2014 | ||
| Secondary (~90, 100–105, or 120µm) | Tingen et al., 2011 | ||
| Secondary (180–210µm) | Skory et al., 2015 | ||
| COC | Buccione et al., 1990 | ||
| Antral (360.94±16.1µm) | Craig et al., 2010 | ||
| Antral (200–350µm) | Craig et al., 2013 | ||
| Antral (250–400µm) | Hannon et al., 2015 Hannon et al., 2015 Peretz & Flaws, 2013 Zhou & Flaws, 2017 Patel et al., 2016 Peretz et al., 2013 |
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| Antral (225–400µm) | Mahalingam et al., 2016a; 2016b | ||
| Antral (>200 µm) | Miller et al., 2005 | ||
| Preantral (180–240µm) | Wycherley et al., 2004 | ||
| Preantral (150–200µm) | Adam et al., 2004 | ||
| PGOC | Eppig, 1980 | ||
| Early preantral (100 and 130µm) | Adriaens et al., 2004 | ||
| Preantral (150-160µm) | Heise et al., 2005 | ||
| Preantral (140-170µm) | Heise et al., 2009 | ||
| Ovine | Preantral small (130±10µm) Preantral medium (185±14µm) Preantral large (250±10µm) |
Cecconi et al., 1999 | |
| Preantral (161±2µm) | Thomas et al., 2003 | ||
| Preantral (250–400µm) | Arunakumari et al., 2010 | ||
| Porcine | Preantral (296±9µm) | Wu et al., 2001 | |
| Rhesus | Secondary (100–300µm) | Xu et al., 2009a | |
| COC | Peluffo et al., 2012 | ||
| Small antral (≥0.5mm) | Peluffo et al., 2013 | ||
| Secondary (140–225µm) | Xu et al., 2018 | ||
| Secondary (125–250µm) | Baba et al., 2017 | ||
| Secondary (125–225µm) | Rodrigues et al., 2015 | ||
| Secondary (125–250µm) | Ting et al., 2015 | ||
| Primary (80–120µm) secondary (125–225µm) |
Xu et al., 2013 | ||
| Secondary (130–220µm) | Xu et al., 2015b | ||
| Feline | Secondary (100–200µm) | Songsasen et al., 2017 | |
| Secondary (208±7.9µm diameter) Early antral (329.8±5.4µm) |
Thongkittidilok et al., 2018 | ||
| Combined Enzymatic/Mechanical | Baboon | Preantral (270–300µm) | Xu et al., 2011b |
| Human | Secondary (74–260µm) | Skory et al., 2015 | |
| Primary (47.0±8.2µm) | Abir et al., 1999 | ||
| Preantral (190±30µm) | Aziz et al., 2017 | ||
| Secondary (~170µm) | Xu et al., 2009b | ||
| Murine | Preantral (~60–69µm) | Oktem & Oktay, 2007 | |
| Preantral follicles and COC | Vanderhyden et al., 1992 | ||
| Immature secondary (140–150µm) | Shikanov et al., 2011 | ||
| Multi-layered secondary (150–180µm) | Xu et al., 2006a | ||
| Porcine | Preantral (200–300µm) | Hirao et al., 1994 | |
| Rhesus | COC | Peluffo et al., 2010 | |
| Secondary (125–225µm) | Xu et al., 2011a Xu et al., 2010 |
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