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(redirected from Blood-testis barrier)

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Blood-Testis Barrier and Immune Respone: The Sustentacular Cells begin to mature at the onset of puberty.
Disruption of Sertoli-germ cell adhesion function in the seminiferous epithelium of the rat testis can be limited to adherens junctions without affecting the blood-testis barrier integrity: An in vivo study using an androgen suppression model," Journal of Cellular Physiology 205(1): 141-157.
6,7) This lesion, named focal orchitis by Honore, (16) has been explained as an autoimmune process produced by an alteration of the blood-testis barrier that permits the passage of antigens from the adluminal tubular compartment to the testicular interstitium.
 
 
 
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