Sentence examples for which testes from inspiring English sources
The large difference between the SD and LD groups in peripubertal males was caused by the rapid rate at which testes of the LD group were growing compared to a slow rate of growth in the SD group.
A likely mechanism by which testes exert effects on late-life health is through production of testosterone, whose secretion by the Leydig cells is stimulated by pituitary luteinizing hormone (LH).
Although many of these were mild and transient forms of cryptorchidism, in which testes descend spontaneously without treatment (Boisen et al. 2004), these boys show slightly elevated gonadotropin levels at 3 months of age as an indication of subtle primary testis dysfunction (Suomi et al. 2006).
A few mammals have a pouch into which the testes descend and from which they can be retracted by muscular action.
One such condition is cryptorchidism, a developmental defect in which the testes do not descend into the scrotum (which creates a risk of developing testicular cancer).
The ridgelike swellings on either side remain apart in the female and constitute the large labia (labia majora), but in the male they grow together to form the scrotal sac into which the testes subsequently descend.
In 1990, scientists identified a gene called Sry, which causes testes to form.
Insulin-like peptide 3 (isSL3) is a peptide hormone belonging to the insulin/relaxin superfamily, which mediates testes descent in the male fetus, and suppresses male germ cell apoptosis and promotes oocyte maturation in adults by activating the leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein coupled receptor RXFP2.
The total number of males from which the testes were collected was 38.
In the male mice, small incisions were made in the lower abdomen through which the testes were removed.
However, they found that peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from patients with IBD showed hypermethylation at the TEPP locus, which encodes testes, prostate, and placenta-expressed protein and is of uncertain relevance in IBD.
