ReviewReproduction (Cambridge, England)2018
How does chemotherapy treatment damage the prepubertal testis?
Review in Reproduction (Cambridge, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.
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- Decoding cytarabine-induced damage in the prepubertal testis: A multi-omics atlas of ecosystem and inheritance.iScience · 2026Article
- Exosomes in oncofertility: emerging roles in chemotherapy-induced reproductive damage and fertility preservation.Reproduction & fertility · 2026Review
- Paternal ribosome biogenesis dysfunction caused by cyclophosphamide-busulfan chemotherapy contributes to early embryonic developmental impairment in mice.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- Testicular weight deficits, altered variables of antioxidant defense system, spermatogenesis impairment, and inflammation induced by busulfan injection are ameliorated by gallic acid administration in rats.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Article
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- In vivo and in vitro spermatogenesis in prepubertal mouse testes exposed to low gonadotoxic doses of cytarabine or Daunorubicin.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Follicle-Stimulating Hormone and Testosterone Play a Role in the Regulation of Sertoli Cell Functions Following Germ Cell Depletion In Vitro.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicle as A Novel Therapeutic Approach for Chemotherapy-Induced Male Infertility: A Review Article.International journal of fertility & sterility · 2025Article
- Germ cell quantification in human fetal and prepubertal testis tissues: a comparison of current methodologies.Reproduction & fertility · 2025Article
- Enhanced cell survival in prepubertal testicular tissue cryopreserved with membrane lipids and antioxidants rich cryopreservation medium.Cell and tissue research · 2025Article
- The impact ofHuman reproduction open · 2025Review
- Alkylating agents-induced gonadotoxicity in prepubertal males: Insights on the clinical and preclinical front.Clinical and translational science · 2024Review
- Long-term endocrine sequelae after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children and adolescents.Annals of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism · 2024Article
- Fertility preservation before and after cancer treatment in children, adolescents, and young adults.Cancer · 2024Review
- Photobiomodulation Improves Histological Parameters of Testis and Spermatogenesis in Adult Mice Exposed to Scrotal Hyperthermia in the Prepubertal Phase.Journal of lasers in medical sciences · 2024Article
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- Lovastatin promotes the self-renewal of murine and primate spermatogonial stem cells.Stem cell reports · 2023Article
- Childhood cancer and hematological disorders negatively affect spermatogonial quantity at diagnosis: a retrospective study of a male fertility preservation cohort.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Co-Culture of Cryopreserved Healthy Sertoli Cells with Testicular Tissue of Non-Obstructive Azoospermia (NOA) Patients in Culture Media Containing Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH)/Testosterone Has No Advantage in Germ Cell Maturation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Chemotherapy treatment is a mainstay of anticancer regimens, significantly contributing to the recent increase in childhood cancer survival rates. Conventional cancer therapy targets not only malignant but also healthy cells resulting in side effects including infertility. For prepubertal boys, there are currently no fertility preservation strategies in use, although several potential methods are under investigation. Most of the current knowledge in relation to prepubertal gonadotoxicity has been deduced from adult studies; however, the prepubertal testis is relatively quiescent in comparison to the adult. This review provides an overview of research to date in humans and animals describing chemotherapy-induced prepubertal gonadotoxicity, focusing on direct gonadal damage. Testicular damage is dependent upon the agent, dosage, administration schedule and age/pubertal status at time of treatment. The chemotherapy agents investigated so far target the germ cell population activating apoptotic pathways and may also impair Sertoli cell function. Due to use of combined chemotherapy agents for patients, the impact of individual drugs is hard to define, however, use of in vivo and in vitro animal models can overcome this problem. Furthering our understanding of how chemotherapy agents target the prepubertal testis will provide clarity to patients on the gonadotoxicity of different drugs and aid in the development of cytoprotective agents.
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