ArticleAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2021
Immunologic Environment of the Testis.
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- Immune Microenvironment Dysregulation: A Contributing Factor to Obesity-Associated Male Infertility.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Testicular immunity.Molecular aspects of medicine · 2024Review
- Study on the cytokines related to SARS-Cov-2 in testicular cells and the interaction network between cells based on scRNA-seq data.Open life sciences · 2023Article
- Reprogramming adipose mesenchymal stem cells into islet β-cells for the treatment of canine diabetes mellitus.Stem cell research & therapy · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mammalian spermatogenesis is a carefully orchestrated male germ cell differentiation process by which spermatogonia differentiate to spermatozoa in the testis. A highly organized testicular microenvironment is therefore necessary to support spermatogenesis. Regarding immunologic aspects, the testis adapts a specialized immune environment for the protection of male germ cells and testicular functions. The mammalian testis possesses two immunologic features: (1) it is an immunoprivileged organ where immunogenic germ cells do not induce deleterious immune responses under physiologic conditions; and (2) it creates its own effective innate defense system against microbial infection. Various pathologic conditions may disrupt testicular immune homeostasis, thereby resulting in a detrimental immune response and perturbing testicular functions, one of the etiologic factors of male infertility. Understanding the mechanisms underlying immunoregulation in the testis can aid in establishing strategies for the prevention and therapy of immunologic testicular dysfunction and male infertility. This chapter focuses on the mechanisms underlying immune privilege, local innate immunity, and immunologic diseases of the testis.
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