Arneja D. V., D. Chand, G. C. Georgie: Age influenced Variations in Plasma Cholesterol, Testicular Cholesterol and Testicular Ascorbic Acid of Prepubertal Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo). Acta vet. Bmo, 50, 1981: 53-59. The blood plasma and testicular cholesterol and testicular ascorbic acid concentrations were determined in prepubertal male turkeys at different periods between 135 and 235 days o...

STUDY QUESTION Is there a better alternative to the conventional cryopreservation protocols for human testicular tissue banking? SUMMARY ANSWER Uncontrolled slow freezing (USF) using 1.5 M dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO) and 0.15 M sucrose as cryoprotectants appears to be a user-friendly and efficient method for the cryopreservation of human testicular tissue. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Currently, tim...

Male infertility can be treated by several methods with varying degree of success. We present evidence that "open" testicular biopsy is favorable for men suffering from non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA). Moreover, any NOA patient may be subjected to this treatment even though his past histopathological examinations suggest that it is likely no sperm will be found in the testicular tissue. Thus,...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine oxidative stress (OS) parameters after testicular torsion/detorsion in adult rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this experimental study, male adult Wistar rats were divided into four groups, each consisting of seven animals: group I-one hour right testicular torsion with subsequent orchiectomy, group II-one hour right testicular torsion followed b...

Sex differentiation in humans depends on the presence of the Y-linked gene SRY, which is activated in the pre-Sertoli cells of the developing gonadal primordium to trigger testicular differentiation. Occasionally testicular formation can take place in subjects lacking a Y chromosome resulting in a 46,XX sex reversal condition. True hermaphroditism (TH) is a rare form of intersexuality character...

The purpose of this study is to establish a gene delivery system for interstitial tissue-specific protein expression in mice testes using modified recombinant baculovirus. Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-expressing recombinant baculovirus (GFP-baculovirus), in which the insect cell-specific polyhedron promoter was replaced by the cytomegalovirus (CMV)-IE promoter, was used to transfect testicul...

Testicular damage is one of the most hazardous effects as it’s associated with azoospermia. Busulfan (Bu) a highly toxic chemotherapeutic drug that affects testis. Thirty male Swiss albino mice divided into six groups 5 animals each. Control (oral 0.9% saline daily for 75 days); Mel (20 mg/kg/day orally 30 ZnO NPs (5 i.p. BU (single injection 40 mg/kg and then left 45 + dose days followed by 20...

An 8-year-old intact rabbit was presented to a veterinary hospital with a complaint of enlarged left scrotum. Histological examination revealed a single large cyst adjacent to an efferent ductule-like tissue. The cyst wall was composed of monolayer cuboidal cells surrounded by dysplastic testicular tissue, and the seminiferous tubules were not developed at all. The epithelial cells of the cyst ...