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[Age of the father and development].
Contraception, fertilite, sexualite (1992) - 1 May 1993
Auroux M
Abstract excerpt
Testicular ageing affects at the same time the individual and his lineage. In the individual, vascular, endocrine, blood testis barrier and Sertoli cells changes because of age lead a decrease of spermatozoa number and an alteration in their form and motility. These changes lead a gradual decrease of fertility. In the progeny, paternal ageing is responsible for new dominant autosomic mutations which themselves...
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