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Fertility and Sterility

Volume 92, Issue 4, October 2009, Pages 1472-1473
Fertility and Sterility

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Biogenesis of the sperm head perinuclear theca during human spermiogenesis

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We analyzed the appearance and localization of the sub-acrosomal perinuclear theca (PT) during human spermiogenesis. The PT is tightly associated with acrosomal biogenesis.

Key Words

Perinuclear theca
acrosome
spermiogenesis

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C.A.S. has nothing to disclose. R.O. has nothing to disclose. P.S. has nothing to disclose. H.C. has nothing to disclose. V.Y.R. has nothing to disclose.

Supported by grants from ANPCyT (PICT 05 38229).

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