ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2018
Role of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone in Spermatogenesis.
Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 143 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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143 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 294 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Does hormonal therapy improve sperm retrieval rates in men with non-obstructive azoospermia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Human reproduction update · 2022Pooled it
- Qualitative and quantitative assessment of sperm miRNAs identifies hsa-miR-9-3p, hsa-miR-30b-5p and hsa-miR-122-5p as potential biomarkers of male infertility and sperm quality.Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E · 2022Pooled it
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- Long-term testicular changes caused by the temporary suspension of puberty initiated at different stages of development.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Article
- Gonadotropin therapy in idiopathic hypogonadal non-obstructive azoospermia (APHRODITE Groups 3-4): a multicenter randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2026Article
- Reproductive and metabolic hormone associations in adult Samoan males with and without obesity.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2026Article
- Dietary supplementation withFrontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- A point-of-care assay for genotyping women prior to ovarian stimulation with recombinant or human menopausal gonadotropins in assisted reproduction.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Relative Sertoli-cell FSH hyporesponsiveness as a potential contributor to sperm DNA fragmentation: a hypothesis-driven narrative review and proposal of the FERTILE framework.Frontiers in urology · 2026Article
- Comparative machine learning analysis identifies random forest and adaboost as superior models for the evaluation of semen quality and reproductive hormones.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Spermatogenesis is a concerted sequence of events during maturation of spermatogonia into spermatozoa. The process involves differential gene-expression and cell-cell interplay regulated by the key endocrine stimuli, i.e., follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH)-stimulated testosterone. FSH affects independently and in concert with testosterone, the proliferation, maturation and function of the supporting Sertoli cells that produce regulatory signals and nutrients for the maintenance of developing germ cells. Rodents are able to complete spermatogenesis without FSH stimulus, but its deficiency significantly decreases sperm quantity. Men carrying loss-of-function mutation in the gene encoding the ligand (
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