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SUBMITTER: Franca LR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5461925 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
França L R LR Hess R A RA Dufour J M JM Hofmann M C MC Griswold M D MD
Andrology 20160204 2
It has been one and a half centuries since Enrico Sertoli published the seminal discovery of the testicular 'nurse cell', not only a key cell in the testis, but indeed one of the most amazing cells in the vertebrate body. In this review, we begin by examining the three phases of morphological research that have occurred in the study of Sertoli cells, because microscopic anatomy was essentially the only scientific discipline available for about the first 75 years after the discovery. Biochemistry ...[more]