Sentence examples for the testes with from inspiring English sources
In boys it is growth of the testes with reddening and wrinkling of the scrotum.
Another involves briefly heating the testes with ultrasound, which can halt sperm production for months, she said.
In some fishes and amphibians the vasa efferentia connect the testes with the cranial (anterior) end of the kidneys.
The testes are located in the tail cavities; a spermduct, or vas deferens, connects the testes with the seminal vesicles, which open out from the body.
The testes, with a few exceptions among the lemurs, in which they are withdrawn seasonally, lie permanently in the scrotal sac, to which they migrate from their intra-abdominal position some time before birth (in humans) or after birth (in nonhuman primates).
Testicular torsion, or rotation of the testes with twisting of the spermatic cord, is a common surgical emergency.
Immature sperm cells in the testes develop with the help of "nurse" tissue called Sertoli cells, but adherin breaks the close bond between Sertoli cells and the cells that would otherwise develop into sperm.
Additionally, SAFB2 –/– mice showed a significantly increased testis weight and a higher number of Sertoli cells in the testes, compared with wild type.
Of the miRNAs that exhibited greater expression in the testes compared with the ovaries, fru-miR-2478-3p and fru-miR-2898-3p exhibited levels in the testes that were twice those in the ovaries (Table 2).
The significant depletion of cortisone and suggested increase in 11-hydroxyandrostenedione in the testes, together with the significant depletion of 11-KT in the plasma, confirms that fenitrothion disrupts steroid metabolism in roach.
Although the function of the fish zonadhesin and zonadhesin-like genes is not known, their expression in the gut and absence of expression in the testes, combined with their homology to gut-expressed genes of the mucosal immune system (i.e. FCGBP and mucin), suggest that zonadhesin was also 'hijacked' by the mammalian reproductive system.
