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SUBMITTER: Fukunaga H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6773706 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fukunaga Hisanori H Kaminaga Kiichi K Sato Takuya T Butterworth Karl T KT Watanabe Ritsuko R Usami Noriko N Ogawa Takehiko T Yokoya Akinari A Prise Kevin M KM
Scientific reports 20191001 1
Microbeam radiotherapy (MRT) is based on a spatial fractionation of synchrotron X-ray microbeams at the microscale level. Although the tissue-sparing effect (TSE) in response to non-uniform radiation fields was recognized more than one century ago, the TSE of MRT in the testes and its clinical importance for preventing male fertility remain to be determined. In this study, using the combination of MRT techniques and a unique ex vivo testes organ culture, we show, for the first time, the MRT-medi ...[more]