Sertoli cell

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of sustentacular cell which serves as a "nurse" cell of the testes and which is part of a seminiferous tubule.
    — In 2009, researchers reported7 deactivating an ovarian gene called Foxl2 in adult female mice; they found that the granulosa cells that support the development of eggs transformed into Sertoli cells, which support sperm development.

词形变化

Sertoli cells plural

词源

Named for Enrico Sertoli, who published the first description of these cells in 1865.
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