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Spermatozoa

"Spermatozoa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Mature male germ cells derived from SPERMATIDS. As spermatids move toward the lumen of the SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES, they undergo extensive structural changes including the loss of cytoplasm, condensation of CHROMATIN into the SPERM HEAD, formation of the ACROSOME cap, the SPERM MIDPIECE and the SPERM TAIL that provides motility.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Spermatozoa" by people in this website by year, and whether "Spermatozoa" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 18 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2019
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