spermatogonium
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A spermatogonium (plural: spermatogonia) is an undifferentiated male germ cell. Spermatogonia undergo spermatogenesis to form mature spermatozoa in the seminiferous tubules of the testicles.
Key facts
- Anatomy.Name
- Spermatogonium
- Anatomy.Image
- Germinal_epithelium_testicle.svg
- Anatomy.Caption
- Germinal epithelium of the testicle. 1 basal lamina, 2 spermatogonia, 3 spermatocyte 1st order, 4 spermatocyte 2nd order, 5 spermatid, 6 mature spermatid, 7 Sertoli cell, 8 tight junction (blood testis barrier)
- Anatomy.Image2
- Testicle-histology-boar.jpg
- Anatomy.Caption2
- Histological section through testicular parenchyma of a boar. 1 Lumen of Tubulus seminiferus contortus, 2 spermatids, 3 spermatocytes, 4 spermatogonia, 5 Sertoli cell, 6 myofibroblasts, 7 Leydig cells, 8 capillaries
- Anatomy.Width
- 325
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
9,772 papers- Spermatogonium-Derived Complete Hydatidiform Mole.The New England journal of medicine · 2021
- Nanoplastic PS and cadmium co-exposure accelerates ferroptosis mediated by HIF-1α-related signaling in spermatogonium.Free radical biology & medicine · 2025
- In vitro reconstitution of the whole male germ-cell development from mouse pluripotent stem cells.Cell stem cell · 2021
- Human spermatogonial markers.Stem cell research · 2017
- Decoding the pathogenesis of spermatogenic failure in cryptorchidism through single-cell transcriptomic profiling.Cell reports. Medicine · 2024
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Types of spermatogonia
- Spermatogenesis
- Male hormones
- Sperm structure
- Infertility
- Diseases that cause infertility
- Anticancer drugs
- Additional images
- See also
- References
A spermatogonium (plural: spermatogonia) is an undifferentiated male germ cell. Spermatogonia undergo spermatogenesis to form mature spermatozoa in the seminiferous tubules of the testicles.
There are three subtypes of spermatogonia in humans:
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