epididymis
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"Our study shows that sperm exposed to a high-fat diet in the mouse epididymis led to offspring with an increased tendency to metabolic diseases," says Raffaele Teperino.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
The epididymis is the area in the male reproductive system where freshly formed sperm mature.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
Once those RNA packages arrive at the epididymis, the hypothesis goes, they prompt a of cascade of changes at conception that evade the stripping, or rebooting, process and the subsequent reshuffling during early development.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2018
Sperm travel through the epididymis during their final maturing process.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2018
Ms., the mesonephros, is the epididymis in the male, and is reduced in the female; Ms.d., its duct, is the vas deferens in the male, and persists only as the urinary receptacle in the female.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Figure 27.2 Male Reproductive System The structures of the male reproductive system include the testes, the epididymides, the penis, and the ducts and glands that produce and carry semen.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Averages of the 2 epididymides from each bull are given in Table 3; the samples from bulls 5 and 6 were combined.
From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by Friedman, M. E.
Sperm expelled from the epididymides in autumn matings are seemingly replaced by others from the seminiferous tubules; the epididymides become much smaller when their supply of sperm is nearly exhausted after spring mating.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.
Sternotherus, Terrapene, and Thamnophis are alike in completing spermatogenesis late in the season and storing spermatozoa, in the seminiferous tubules or in the epididymides, during hibernation.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.
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