"Spermatogonia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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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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Below are the most recent publications written about "Spermatogonia" by people in Profiles.
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CTCF-dependent chromatin bias constitutes transient epigenetic memory of the mother at the H19-Igf2 imprinting control region in prospermatogonia. PLoS Genet. 2010 Nov 24; 6(11):e1001224.