"Sperm Maturation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The maturing process of SPERMATOZOA after leaving the testicular SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES. Maturation in SPERM MOTILITY and FERTILITY takes place in the EPIDIDYMIS as the sperm migrate from caput epididymis to cauda epididymis.
| Descriptor ID |
D013079
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G04.152.650.624.700 G08.686.784.310.760.700
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| Concept/Terms |
Sperm Maturation- Sperm Maturation
- Maturation, Sperm
- Maturation of Spermatozoa
- Spermatozoa Maturation
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| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sperm Maturation" by people in Profiles.
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Expression profiles of human epididymis epithelial cells reveal the functional diversity of caput, corpus and cauda regions. Mol Hum Reprod. 2016 Feb; 22(2):69-82.
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Gene encoding a mammalian epididymal protein. Biochem Mol Biol Int. 1994 Dec; 34(6):1131-6.
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Effects of sonication on mature rat testes. Fertil Steril. 1977 Feb; 28(2):195-204.