Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Aging, inflammation and DNA damage in the somatic testicular niche with idiopathic germ cell aplasia

  • Massimo Alfano,
  • Anna Sofia Tascini,
  • Filippo Pederzoli,
  • Irene Locatelli,
  • Manuela Nebuloni,
  • Francesca Giannese,
  • Jose Manuel Garcia-Manteiga,
  • Giovanni Tonon,
  • Giada Amodio,
  • Silvia Gregori,
  • Alessandra Agresti,
  • Francesco Montorsi,
  • Andrea Salonia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25544-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Molecular mechanisms associated with human germ cell aplasia in infertile men remain undefined. Here the authors perform single-cell transcriptome profiling to highlight differentially expressed genes and pathways in each somatic cell type in testes of men with idiopathic germ cell aplasia.