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Figure 5

From: Therapeutic ultrasound as a potential male contraceptive: power, frequency and temperature required to deplete rat testes of meiotic cells and epididymides of sperm determined using a commercially available system

Figure 5

Testis histology two weeks after 3 MHz ultrasound (Group 4). (A) The loss of spermatogenic cells after this treatment was more complete than after the wet heat treatment. This resulted in a shorter epithelium and a larger diameter lumen. (B) An isolated cluster of tubules in this particular animal showed evidence of thermal damage (td) in addition to the loss of spermatogenic cells. (C) Most tubules had a very short epithelial layer and increased lumen diameter due to the loss of all spermatocytes and spermatids. (D) Tubules that appear to have a larger epithelial layer and smaller diameter lumen were still missing spermatocytes and spermatids.

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Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

ISSN: 1477-7827

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