Disorders of Puberty: Endocrinology of the Pre-Pubertal Testis

Male infertility is a widespread condition among western countries. Meta-regression data show that sperm concentration and total sperm count have halved in the last decades. The reasons of this decline are still unclear. The evaluation of testicular function in pre-pubertal children may be effective...

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Autores principales: La Vignera, Sandro, Cannarella, Rossella, Condorelli, Rosita A., Calogero, Aldo E.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7141315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32182985
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9030780
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author La Vignera, Sandro
Cannarella, Rossella
Condorelli, Rosita A.
Calogero, Aldo E.
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description Male infertility is a widespread condition among western countries. Meta-regression data show that sperm concentration and total sperm count have halved in the last decades. The reasons of this decline are still unclear. The evaluation of testicular function in pre-pubertal children may be effective in the timely detection of Sertoli cell (SC) disfunction, which anticipates the diagnosis of male infertility. The aim of this Special Issue is to gather together in vitro evidence on SC physiology, causes of SC dysfunction, and to suggest a practical approach to be adopted in children.
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spelling pubmed-71413152020-04-10 Disorders of Puberty: Endocrinology of the Pre-Pubertal Testis La Vignera, Sandro Cannarella, Rossella Condorelli, Rosita A. Calogero, Aldo E. J Clin Med Editorial Male infertility is a widespread condition among western countries. Meta-regression data show that sperm concentration and total sperm count have halved in the last decades. The reasons of this decline are still unclear. The evaluation of testicular function in pre-pubertal children may be effective in the timely detection of Sertoli cell (SC) disfunction, which anticipates the diagnosis of male infertility. The aim of this Special Issue is to gather together in vitro evidence on SC physiology, causes of SC dysfunction, and to suggest a practical approach to be adopted in children. MDPI 2020-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7141315/ /pubmed/32182985 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9030780 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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