Article
Fertility after homologous prepubertal testis transplantation in the dog.
Transplantation proceedings - 1 Oct 2008
Pullium J K, Milner R, Tuma G A, Lin P H
Abstract excerpt
Canine models of hereditary human diseases are widely used throughout the biomedical community, particularly when no suitable rodent model exists. In several models, the homozygote dogs die prior to puberty, or have substantially reduced fertility. Prepubertal transplantation of the testes was used to propagate the genotype of a mutant dog that would not otherwise have survived until puberty. The transplant...
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