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T Ogawa1, I Dobrinski, M R Avarbock, R L Brinster.
Abstract
Azoospermia or oligozoospermia due to disruption of spermatogenesis are common causes of human male infertility. We used the technique of spermatogonial transplantation in two infertile mouse strains, Steel (Sl) and dominant white spotting (W), to determine if stem cells from an infertile male were capable of generating spermatogenesis. Transplantation of germ cells from infertile Sl/Sld mutant male mice to infertile W/Wv or Wv/W54 mutant male mice restored fertility to the recipient mice. Thus, transplantation of spermatogonial stem cells from an infertile donor to a permissive testicular environment can restore fertility and result in progeny with the genetic makeup of the infertile donor male.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10613820 PMCID: PMC4879876 DOI: 10.1038/71496
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Med ISSN: 1078-8956 Impact factor: 53.440