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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2022

The Role of Testosterone in Spermatogenesis: Lessons From Proteome Profiling of Human Spermatozoa in Testosterone Deficiency.

Giuseppe Grande, Ferran Barrachina, Ada Soler-Ventura, Meritxell Jodar, Francesca Mancini, Riccardo Marana, Sabrina Chiloiro, Alfredo Pontecorvi, Rafael Oliva, Domenico Milardi

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Giuseppe GrandeResearch Group on Human Fertility, International Scientific Institute "Paul VI", Rome, Italy.
Ferran BarrachinaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Biology of Reproduction and Development Research Group, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Ada Soler-VenturaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Biology of Reproduction and Development Research Group, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Meritxell JodarDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Biology of Reproduction and Development Research Group, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Francesca ManciniResearch Group on Human Fertility, International Scientific Institute "Paul VI", Rome, Italy.
Riccardo MaranaResearch Group on Human Fertility, International Scientific Institute "Paul VI", Rome, Italy.
Sabrina ChiloiroDepartment of Translational Medicine and Surgery, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
Alfredo PontecorviResearch Group on Human Fertility, International Scientific Institute "Paul VI", Rome, Italy.
Rafael OlivaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Biology of Reproduction and Development Research Group, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Domenico MilardiResearch Group on Human Fertility, International Scientific Institute "Paul VI", Rome, Italy.
Universitat de Barcelona · ESAgostino Gemelli University Polyclinic · ITFundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica · ESIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Testosterone is essential to maintain qualitative spermatogenesis. Nonetheless, no studies have been yet performed in humans to analyze the testosterone-mediated expression of sperm proteins and their importance in reproduction. Thus, this study aimed to identify sperm protein alterations in male hypogonadism using proteomic profiling. We have performed a comparative proteomic analysis comparing sperm from fertile controls (a pool of 5 normogonadic normozoospermic fertile men) versus sperm from patients with secondary hypogonadism (a pool of 5 oligozoospermic hypogonadic patients due to isolated LH deficiency). Sperm protein composition was analyzed, after peptide labelling with Isobaric Tags,

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HypogonadismProteomeA Kinase Anchor ProteinsChromatography, LiquidHumansMaleProteomicsSpermatogenesisSpermatozoaTandem Mass SpectrometryTestosteroneAKAP3 protein, humanA Kinase Anchor ProteinsProteomeTestosteronehypogonadismLH deficiencyproteomicsspermtestosterone

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PMID35663320
PMCPMC9161277
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