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Blanche Capel

Blanche Capel

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Cell Biology
Cell Biology
blanche.capel@duke.edu
Duke Box 3709 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
307 Research Drive, Nanaline Bldg Room 452, Durham, NC 27710

Scholarly Works - Preprints

In mice, a population of male germ cells show characteristics of non-apoptotic cell death during G0 arrest.

Preprint · May 11, 2026 UNLABELLED: In mammals, a small population of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) is established shortly after birth. These cells self-renew and produce sperm for the entirety of a male's reproductive lifespan, passing the genome on to the next generation. Th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rediscovering the rete ovarii, a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary.

Preprint · March 19, 2025 The rete ovarii (RO) is an appendage of the ovary that has been given little attention. Although the RO appears in drawings of the ovary in early versions of Gray's Anatomy, it disappeared from recent textbooks, and is often dismissed as a functionless ves ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary

Preprint · February 12, 2025 AbstractThe rete ovarii (RO) is an appendage of the ovary that has been given little attention. Although the RO appears in drawings of the ovary in early versions of Gray’s Anatomy, it disappeared from recent textb ... Full text Cite

Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary.

Preprint · November 11, 2024 The rete ovarii (RO) is an appendage of the ovary that has been given little attention. Although the RO appears in drawings of the ovary in early versions of Gray's Anatomy, it disappeared from recent textbooks, and is often dismissed as a functionless ves ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary

Preprint · May 20, 2024 AbstractThe rete ovarii (RO) is an appendage of the ovary that has been given little attention. Although the RO appears in drawings of the ovary in early versions of Gray’s Anatomy, it disappeared from recent textb ... Full text Cite

Sex-determining 3D regulatory hubs revealed by genome spatial auto-correlation analysis

Preprint · 2022 ABSTRACT Mammalian sex is determined by opposing networks of ovarian and testicular genes that are well characterized. However, its epigenetic regulation is still largely unknown, thus limiting our understanding of a fundamental process for speci ... Full text Cite

CBX2 is required during male sex determination to repress female fate at bivalent loci

Preprint · 2018 The epigenetic mechanisms that regulate the male vs. female cell-fate decision in the mammalian bipotential gonad are poorly understood. In this study, we developed a quantitative genome-wide profile of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 in isolated XY and XX gonadal su ... Full text Cite