Stage‐specific degeneration of germ cells in the seminiferous tubules of non‐obese diabetic mice

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The cause of fertility problems in insulin-dependent diabetes is largely unknown. To evaluate the role of autoimmunity-associated phenomena in the testis as a possible cause of the derangement in spermatogenesis, the stage-specific apoptosis of germ cells in the insulitis phase of pre-diabetes was quantified in the testes of non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice. The seminiferous epithelium of normal BALB/c and NOD mice...

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