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Our understanding of spermatogenesis in the adult testis has increased substantially in past years, as more and more investigators have focused on the role of interactions between somatic and germ cells in supporting this process. We now recognize, for example, the way in which adhesive interactions between Sertoli and germ cells control movement of young spermatocytes from the basal into the adluminal compartment and the critical support provided to the adluminal cohort of spermatogenic cells by the Sertoli cells. Considerably less is known, however, about how spermatogonia begin their passage through spermatogenesis and even less is understood about the ancestors of these cells, the gonocytes, and how they mature during the prespermatogenic period of testicular development.
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Orth, J.M., Jester, W.P., Qiu, J., Li, LH. (1998). Gonocyte—Sertoli Cell Interactions in Testes of Neonatal Rats. In: Zirkin, B.R. (eds) Germ Cell Development, Division, Disruption and Death. Serono Symposia USA Norwell, Massachusetts. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2206-4_2
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