"Spermatogonia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Euploid male germ cells of an early stage of SPERMATOGENESIS, derived from prespermatogonia. With the onset of puberty, spermatogonia at the basement membrane of the seminiferous tubule proliferate by mitotic then meiotic divisions and give rise to the haploid SPERMATOCYTES.
| Descriptor ID |
D013093
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A05.360.490.890.900 A11.497.760.800
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| Concept/Terms |
Spermatogonia- Spermatogonia
- Spermatogonias
- Spermatophores
- Spermatophore
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Spermatogonia" by people in Profiles.
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A temporal signature of epidermal growth factor signaling regulates the differentiation of germline cells in testes of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One. 2013; 8(8):e70678.
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Mice deficient in the serine/threonine protein kinase VRK1 are infertile due to a progressive loss of spermatogonia. Biol Reprod. 2010 Jan; 82(1):182-93.