Oxidative Stress Disrupted Prepubertal Rat Testicular Development after Xenotransplantation

Figure 9

H&E staining of rat testes in control and transplantation groups. H&E staining showed intact testicular structure, and complete spermatogenesis was well established in the control group (a). By contrast, the transplanted testes showed smaller tubular diameter and disrupted spermatogenic epithelium (b). Tubules in the grafted testes were all in the late stages, and spermatogenesis stages in the control group were normally distributed ((c); (a, b): 40x magnification; scale bars indicate 50 μm).

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