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maxweylandt
I don't think the article mentions what animals this is about, but I was curious - this is in mice.
mjochim
Below the first video, it says:

> Images were captured using a combination of confocal and two-photon microscopy, live imaging isolated mouse ovarian follicles.

fewgrehrehre
I wonder if the title should be amended to clarify this- I feel as though one would assume from the title that this is imagery from humans.
kmckiern
First of all - very cool that they were able to image this and work out the mechanical mechanism in such detail.

Second - the rupture event looks so violent but iiuc it’s actually highly controlled: - the rupture site is thinned early in the ovulation process - the expansion step pulls in fluid to the ovary (builds internal pressure) - the contraction phase restricts the cell volume (which also builds internal pressure) - the oocyte is launched out of the cell at a relatively high speed

killjoywashere
Human ovulation incidentally caught during laparoscopic hysterectomy procedure in 2008:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7447942.stm, and https://www.nature.com/articles/453965a.pdf

Separately, a woman at about the same time actually volunteered to undergo a surgery specifically to observe the phenomenon on video, also by laparoscopy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-VKgdhfNpY

guessmyname
I wonder why the video is age-restricted.

There are plenty of videos on YouTube that are clearly sexual in nature and publicly available to people of all ages.

Searching for the video ID (2-VKgdhfNpY) on Google Images returns obvious images of a laparoscopy.