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Germ cell genotype controls cell cycle during spermatogenesis in the rat.
Biology of reproduction - 1 Dec 1998
França L R, Ogawa T, Avarbock M R, Brinster R L, Russell L D
Abstract excerpt
Spermatogenesis is one of the most productive self-renewing systems in the body: on the order of 10(7) spermatozoa are produced daily per gram of testis tissue. In each mammalian species, the time required for completion of the process is unique and unalterable. Because the process is supported by somatic Sertoli cells, it has generally been thought that cell-cell interaction between germ and Sertoli cells...
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