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ReviewThe Urologic clinics of North America2020

Spermatogonial Stem Cell Culture in Oncofertility.

Sherin David, Kyle E Orwig

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In one paragraph

Review in The Urologic clinics of North America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. Isolation and In Vitro Propagation of Human Spermatogonial Stem Cells (SSCs).Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  11. Perspectives: Methods for Evaluating Primate Spermatogonial Stem Cells.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  17. Unique metabolic phenotype and its transition during maturation of juvenile male germ cells.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sherin DavidDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Molecular Genetics and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 204 Craft Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Kyle E OrwigDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Molecular Genetics and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 204 Craft Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Electronic address: orwigke@upmc.edu.
Magee-Womens Research Institute · US

Funding

Project IIIP50HD096723 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Kyle Edwin Orwig · 2019 to 2026
$15.0M
Transplant CoreP01HD075795 · NICHD · MAGEE-WOMEN'S RES INST AND FOUNDATION · PI ORWIG, KYLE EDWIN · 2014 to 2018
$7.0M
Cellular Mechanisms of Chemotherapy-induced Male Infertility: Stem Cell or Niche?R01HD076412 · NICHD · MAGEE-WOMEN'S RES INST AND FOUNDATION · PI ORWIG, KYLE EDWIN · 2014 to 2018
$3.0M
Improving Fertility Preservation in Boys with CancerR01HD092084 · NICHD · MAGEE-WOMEN'S RES INST AND FOUNDATION · PI ORWIG, KYLE EDWIN · 2017 to 2019
$1.1M
NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD075795NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD096723NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD076412NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD092084
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infertility caused by chemotherapy or radiation treatments negatively impacts patient-survivor quality of life. The only fertility preservation option available to prepubertal boys who are not making sperm is cryopreservation of testicular tissues that contain spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) with potential to produce sperm and/or restore fertility. SSC transplantation to regenerate spermatogenesis in infertile adult survivors of childhood cancers is a mature technology. However, the number of SSCs obtained in a biopsy of a prepubertal testis may be small. Therefore, methods to expand SSC numbers in culture before transplantation are needed. Here we review progress with human SSC culture.

Indexed as

Adult Germline Stem CellsFertility PreservationHumansInfertility, MaleMaleNeoplasmsSpermatogenesisStem Cell TransplantationFertility preservationMale fertilitySpermatogonial stem cell culture

Identifiers

PMID32272995
PMCPMC7158865
OpenAlexW3015806014

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