Watch:The researchers performed these testes-to-neck transplants, then performed testes-to-crotch transplants, and compared how the two procedures went.
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CreditCreditCaroline Tompkins for The New York Times "Testes, testes, one, two, three!" a voice rasped over the sound system in a cheeky Southern drawl.
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And the scientists plan to continue transplanting testes onto rat necks, so that one day, entire testes may be reliably transplanted from person to person.
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After a week, the researchers recovered infectious virus from the testes and sperm, and they found evidence of viral genes in certain cells of the testes.
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Thus, transplantation of children's testes... to their fathers or brothers before receiving medical therapy may be helpful for obtaining mature [sperm cells] from the transplanted testes at a future date.
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Today, chemotherapy can cure many leukemias, lymphomas and testes cancers.
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She needs to stick to the code: breasties before testes.
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Several issues arise from putting testes in the wrong place, though.
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Within one week of infection, the virus arrived in the testes.
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But overall, the testes appeared normal compared with other lab mice.
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He was told that his testes had to be removed immediately.
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Occasionally he would come down testes first onto his opponent's heel.
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"The boy is continuing to have his testes monitored" with ultrasound.
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In men, high levels of testosterone are made by the testes.
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There is no characteristic that matters more than testes and testosterone.
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One small study looked at the baseline serum testosterone level of 218 men aged between 22006 and 213—testosterone is vital for healthy testes function and one of those testes' main functions is to produce sperm.
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The same chemicals were also found, upsettingly, in the male dogs' testes.
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Tumors appeared all over their bodies, from the tongue to the testes.
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The study did not find that people can taste through their testes.
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Without testes, a man can&apost have genetic children of his own.
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In the brains and testes, the Neanderthal versions of genes were rarely active.
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But some women's performances are not enhanced by having Y chromosomes and testes.
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Saifa's body developed with some male characteristics, such as testes in his abdomen.
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This entails having her undescended testes surgically removed or taking hormone-suppressing drugs.
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Odiele also had undescended testes, which were removed when she was ten years old.
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Eventually, this could lead to reconstructing working testes and transplanting them back onto soldiers.
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As a man ages, his mutated selfish spermatogonia starts to accumulate in his testes.
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The testes of the donor were not transferred during the procedure because it's considered unethical.
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You therefore need to generate fewer sperm, and so can get away with smaller testes.
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For many of these intersex males, their gonads were more like female ovaries than testes.
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First, testes are highly sensitive to temperature changes—the neck could be the wrong temperature.
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Secondly, folding the testes and its tubes into the rat's neck could constrict blood flow.
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These included hormone-suppressing drugs and surgery to remove internal testes, which can produce testosterone.
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When they couldn't see one they opened her abdomen and found testes which they discarded.
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Within two weeks, Sertoli cells were dead or dying, and the testes were already significantly smaller.
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Three of these relatives identify as female, having undergone surgeries in childhood to remove their testes.
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Rather, it stimulates a man's testes to produce natural testosterone, which then does the muscle-bulking.
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Inherit an X from mom and a Y from dad, and develop testes and a penis.
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But little is known about whether prolonged exposure to the virus in the testes can cause harm.
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Sperm, as you may know, are the reproductive cells in semen, and they're produced in the testes.
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As this happens, the cremaster muscle contracts and the testes are drawn up closer to the body.
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As a result, many transgender men have a uterus and ovaries, while many transgender women have testes.
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That implies they have either testicular tissue or actual testes, though intersex people often have ambiguous genitalia.
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The numbers are much higher in premature infants, who may be born before the testes have moved.
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Specifically, the athletes who are the focus of the I.A.A.F.'s rules are those who have testes.
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Através de testes rigorosos, Íris se qualificou para um colégio competitivo, mas acabou mudando para uma noturna.
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Doctors in the US also plan to transplant just the penis, not the testes, where sperm are produced.
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If the testes were transferred, the recipient may have had the ability to reproduce with the donor's sperm.
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Entire testes have proven especially difficult to transplant back into the same place, at least in lab animals.
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It is also possible that the transplanted testes in recipients are transplanted back into donors after medical treatment.
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Ovaries morphed into sperm-producing testes, an "epigenetic reprogramming" that mirrors sex determination in early developmental mammalian cells.
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"Shrivelled testes grew back to normal and the animals regained their fertility," a news article in Nature wrote.
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And while undescended testes can have a genetic component, it occurred in all five breeds, suggesting another cause.
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Testes become much smaller in volume after long-term estrogen therapy, which may reduce sperm production and function.
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These develop from the germ cells of the testes, which are cells that eventually develop into mature sperm.
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To participate, women would have to take suppression medication or, if present, have testes surgically removed, Sports Illustrated said.
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Because of their oversized tongues, ovaries and testes, biologists have affectionately nicknamed Thorius the "tongue-flipping gonad" of salamanders.
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"There is a blood-testes barrier that immune cells don't normally cross unless something is very wrong," Diamond said.
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Our pill stops that initial movement by inactivating the tubes that propel fluid from the testes to the prostate.
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Their testes didn't fully develop, but they still produced functional enough sperm to fertilize an egg through artificial means.
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Researchers found chemicals in the testes of dogs that, when tested, showed to have an effect on sperm function.
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The tests on Semenya revealed that she has undescended testes, lacks a womb, and produces high levels of testosterone.
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"For realism," Matt says, he creates balls to go inside the ball sack, so customers can squeeze the testes.
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For example, males that have to compete with other males to reproduce tend to have really, really large testes.
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As a male fetus develops, the testes form in the abdomen, just as the ovaries form in a female.
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The surgery, called orchiopexy, is done under general anesthesia and is more complicated if the testes are higher up.
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To achieve this, males shrink their testes and stop testosterone production, which means they must experience puberty every spring.
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Researchers have known for some time that Zika can be transmitted via semen from men to women, hiding in the testes, where it can avoid the immune system; in fact, there is mounting evidence that it can continue to replicate in the testes -- and even increase the viral load -- for months after infection.
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Meet Spartan, the "smart underwear" startup that aims to protect your testes from the potentially harmful effects of cellphone radiation.
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"Remove someone's testes and the frequency of aggressive behavior is likely to plummet," says Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford University neurobiologist.
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People who have been vaccinated are unlikely to get meningitis or inflammation of the ovaries or testes, or partial deafness.
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In other babies, the testes may be down at birth, but one or both may retract back up later on.
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The recommendations do not apply to men with disorders of the hypothalamus, pituitary gland or testes that cause low testosterone.
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Even with a testicle transplant, a man who previously had no testes isn&apost guaranteed to have kids, Najari said.
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"Those cells will always produce the sperm with the DNA of the person who had the testes to start," Redett said.
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But it turns out that some women who possess both Y chromosomes and testes receive no performance-enhancing effects from them.
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Since we walk upright, gravity pulls on our exposed testes, which can lead to a potentially excruciating condition called inguinal hernia.
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This occurs because hCG is very similar to the pituitary hormone LH, which stimulates the production of testosterone in the testes.
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All of them showed no preference for the human-pattern or Neanderthal-pattern gene expression — except two, the brains and the testes.
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Model Hanne Gaby Odiele revealed that she is intersex, and was born with undescended testes that doctors removed when she was 10.
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The most obvious route—to pick a binary characteristic, such as having testes or a Y chromosome—fails in a few cases.
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However you know them—balls, nads, nuts, marbles, cherries, cojones—the testes are the spherical organs that hang down behind the penis.
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A more detailed investigation showed that although the outside of her body was fully female, Patiño had XY chromosomes and internal testes.
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This can be done surgically, often through the removal of internal testes, with hormone-suppressing medication or through a combination of both.
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The virus became concentrated in the brains and testes, reflecting the damage it is thought to cause in humans, Dr. Rossi said.
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Altogether over 7.4,000 animals have been surgically implanted with the silicone testes, according to Gregg A. Miller, who invented them in 1995.
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Os testes realizados a partir do material coletado ontem ainda estão sendo realizados e nenhum membro da delegação teve acesso aos resultados.
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There are also H-3 receptors in the stomach, gut, pancreas and testes, all of which function abnormally in Prader-Willi children.
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So these researchers are looking at all these different factors to find patterns: Where do we see the big testes in males?
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But more likely, my nagging was just irking them, and it had nothing to do with their ovaries, testes or pituitary gland.
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The testes are so important to our survival that they need an extra layer of protection from attacks by the immune system.
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Within days he had an orchiectomy — the surgical removal of the testicles — which confirmed that the leukemia had recurred, in his testes.
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Is this truly (with apologies to Tom Brokaw) "The Greatest Generation," at least when it comes to taking responsibility for our offensive testes?
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Ultrasound Ultrasound—applied to the testes—has been tried on male rats, cats, dogs, monkeys, and some humans over the past few decades.
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They cannot even conclusively say the dog food is a direct or even the only source of the chemicals found in the testes.
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Sons of men who developed early also grew enlarged testes about 9.5 months sooner than sons of fathers who went through puberty late.
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He takes testosterone to compensate for the loss of his testes, and is being treated with another drug, Cialis, to encourage erectile function.
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While the study found that male testes have taste receptors, that does not mean testicles have tastebuds — people cannot taste through their genitals.
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My patient pulled down his pants and underwear to reveal a scrotum 10 times its normal size, with testes the size of softballs.
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" She adds, "Depending on what she likes done with her testes, you can either leave them alongside her clit, or tickle or stroke them.
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Chemical castration, which is very different from surgical castration or removal of the testes, serves to block the production of certain hormones, including testosterone.
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I assume that something is happening to the testes of men, but whether it's as dramatic as in the mice is hard to say.
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As it became an option to leave the testes in the body, Saifa's mother decided that he should not have them removed before puberty.
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The testes produce sperm that, once they find their way to an egg, make more humans because apparently there aren't nearly enough of us.
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Boys who have undescended testes have 2.4 times the risk of developing testicular cancer, Dr. Schneuer said, and 2.2 times the risk of infertility.
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There are also some cases where boys are born with their testes descended, but they later retract back up, again putting them at risk.
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This, the story goes, is why gorillas, which form harems, have much smaller testes, relative to their body sizes, than do chimpanzees, which are promiscuous.
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The event, hosted by the Center of Advocacy for Cancer of the Testes International, is free and will take place from noon to 2 p.m.
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In those earlier experiments Dr Hayashi injected them into the testes of newly born mice, thus persuading them to become sperm when they underwent meiosis.
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The cells in the testes that ultimately produce sperm, called spermatogonia, divide 23 times per year, with each division producing a new chance for error.
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She said her parents were told that she might develop cancer if she didn't have the testes removed and wouldn't develop as a "normal" girl.
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The researchers also found that Zika infects and kills Sertoli cells, which maintain the barrier between the bloodstream and the testes and foster sperm growth.
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For example, in a chapter on the challenges of monogamy, he compares the size of human testes to those of other primates, promiscuous and otherwise.
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First, up to 10% of mumps infections in teenagers or adults may cause severe complications, including deafness, meningitis and involvement of the testes or ovaries.
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For years, he had been troubled by the rise in testicular cancer, as well as an increase in the number of boys with malformed testes.
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The trend is based on misinterpreted research from a study published in the scientific journal PNAS in 2013 that found male testes have taste receptors.
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Many scientists think this has to do with the fact that the immune system is actually weaker in the testes, allowing viruses to thrive here.
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That means someone needs to work out exactly which of the chemicals in testes and ovaries tell primordial germ cells whether to become eggs or sperm.
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Sertoli cells, which nourish developing sperm cells, are also responsible for keeping a blood-testes barrier in place to protect those new cells as they grow.
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Odiele said she was born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) in which a woman has XY chromosomes, instead of XX chromosomes; she also had undescended testes.
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Look between a lady hyena's back legs (with her permission, of course), and you'll find a thick, phallic structure complete with a false scrotum and testes.
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After reaching sexual maturity, drones that had been subjected to insecticides were dissected, and had their testes and mucous glands removed and analyzed for sperm viability.
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Approximately 20% to 30% of young males who contract the disease are at risk of developing swollen testes, which led to decreased sensitivity and fertility problems.
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The group given 400 milligrams also saw a significant reduction in LH and FSH, two hormones that help regulate testosterone and sperm production by the testes.
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The world may soon face the possibility of eggs and sperm made from putative parents' body cells (probably their skin) rather than in their ovaries and testes.
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In an area in Ghana where e-waste is stripped, Greenpeace recently found high levels of lead, dioxins and phthalates, which can damage the liver and testes.
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These y-chromosome-less males had smaller than normal testes and couldn't produce mature sperm, only round spermatids—early-stage sperm cells that haven't yet developed tails.
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Low testosterone can also be caused by tumors in the pituitary gland or testes, especially in younger men, as well as diseases such as type 2 diabetes.
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"The movement of semen from the testes to where it stays until you have the projectile phase of emission, called ejaculation, happens long before climax," Amobi says.
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Connected to each testis, cupping it from above, is the epididymis, the tube in which sperm mature and are transported from the testes to the vas deferens.
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Things like getting a rash across your chest after you come, one of your testes ascending while you're jacking off, or not being able to pee afterwards.
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"The thing about those events is that they made a safe environment for girls to perform," she remembers, staring at a pair of testes in a jar.
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Eight to 12 weeks after conception, an embryo acquires fetal gonadal sex: Embryos with a Y chromosome develop embryonic testes; those with two X's form embryonic ovaries.
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"There's a good reason the testes are outside the body," noted Dr. Gage, adding that this keeps the sperm 6 to 10 degrees cooler than body temperature.
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It's nearly impossible to ascertain a sturgeon's sex from the outside; Lang and his team use ultrasound on 3-year-old fish to spot testes and ovaries.
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Sex in this context is easy to define and the lines are cleanly drawn: You either have testes and testosterone in the male range or you don't.
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Overnight, the two chimps ganged up to punish him, biting off fingers and toes, and creating wounds in his scrotum through which they squeezed out his testes.
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The testes are referred to as a "sanctuary site" within the body, with a natural barrier that prevents free communication with the rest of our blood supply.
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Surgeries to make them resemble more typical boys or girls include removal of testes or ovaries, deepening shallow vaginas and enlarging small penises, they said in a report.
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Hanne was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome, meaning that although she physically appears to be biologically female, she has XY chromosomes and was born with internal, undescended testes.
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She was born with a pair of XY chromosomes typical of a male and had internal, undescended testes that were surgically removed when she was 10 years old.
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What we do know is that they can severely alter fish development, causing males to grow ovarian tissue in their testes, and females to stop producing eggs normally.
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Arthur Caplan, head of bioethics at the New York University Langone Medical Center, says that federal law "should be emended to include sperm, eggs, uterus, ovaries and testes".
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Anthony Davis had 28/8/5, but got stripped by a certain testes-dapping gnat who posted his first triple-double of the season with 12/12/10.
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Still other intersex women have XY chromosomes and internal testes but appear female their whole lives, developing rounded hips and breasts, because their cells are insensitive to testosterone.
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At ten, she underwent surgery to remove her testes and was subsequently put on estrogen to kick off the most crucial, albeit awkward, years in anyone's life: puberty.
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This polymer is inserted with a single injection to the scrotum, which forms an indissoluble film inside the vas deferens—the duct connecting the testes to the penis.
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"At two months old they castrated me and threw my testicles in the garbage bin without telling my parents," said Truffer who was born with testes inside her.
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In some newborns, the absence of testes in the scrotum is part of a larger and sometimes more serious syndrome, and those children may need additional medical attention.
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In patients infected with Ebola, the virus may persist for months in the testes or eyes even after recovery — and can infect others and keep the epidemic going.
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The doctor said that he might, however, be able to provide a temporary silicone prosthesis with inflatable testes and real pubic hair, affixed with a reliable medical adhesive.
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In the British military, doctors routinely collect and freeze sperm from men with testicular injuries as soon as possible after the injury, in case the testes stop working.
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Doctors find alarming amounts of the virus in his semen, providing the first evidence that the virus can hide and grow in the immune-privileged area of the testes.
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The first is to pick a binary physical characteristic, such as having—or not having—testes or a Y chromosome, a typical (but not universal) biological marker for males.
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Furthermore, the male pups sired from these stud dogs had an increased chance of having cryptorchidism, a condition where the testes of pups don't properly descent into the scrotum.
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"The remarkable speed at which a bluehead wrasse's ovaries can be transformed into new testes may even eventually open up possible applications in tissue and organ engineering," Todd said.
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Some even have gone outside of merpeople, drawing other under the sea animals like the female anglerfish, knowing for absorbing male anglerfish and keeping them only for their testes.
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"There are things called 'immune privilege sites,' which are organs of the body—like the eye and the testes—where the immune system really can't get there," he says.
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And since sperm production is dependent on very high testosterone levels in the testes (much higher than the testosterone levels in the blood), shutting the gonadotropins lowers sperm production.
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Starting in puberty and as adults, their testes produce sperm, not eggs, and supply testosterone in quantities that biologically female bodies and their ovaries never come close to producing.
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"HPV is a confirmed cause of cancer of the uterine cervix and testes, and it evolved in Africa long before Homo sapiens emerged," wrote Molto and Sheldrick in their paper.
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Several organs in the body, including the testes, the eyes, the placenta and the brain, are "immune privileged" - protected from attacks launched by the immune system to neutralize foreign invaders.
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Zika also persisted in the male testes, prostate, and semen, as well as in the uterus and the fluid that bathes the brain and spine, called cerebrospinal fluid or CSF.
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For at least 70 years, studies have noted a decline in human sperm quality, and a gradual increase in rates of testicular cancer and genital tract abnormalities, like undescended testes.
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Nor could it be verified, as reported in 240.91 in The Daily Telegraph of Australia, that Semenya had internal testes and three times the testosterone level of a typical woman.
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SÃO PAULO — Distanciamento social, lavar as mãos frequentemente, capacidade de fazer testes massivos de diagnóstico e isolamento dos infectados: as recomendações para deter o avanço do coronavírus são relativamente fáceis.
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The silver lining to his misfortune was that, because the leukemia was confined to his testes and had been removed surgically, he would not need more chemotherapy before the transplant.
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"That's why the testes hang down away from the body and have their own special blood cooling system," Quinton, who was not involved in the current study, told Science Media Centre.
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Several organs in the body, including the testes, the eyes, the placenta and the fetal brain, are "immune privileged" - protected from attacks launched by the immune system to neutralize foreign invaders.
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Additionally, wounded soldiers and cancer survivors who lost their testes could benefit from the procedure if they don&apost wish to use other testosterone-providing methods or want to have children.
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Sex determination in mammals is controlled by a gene on the Y chromosome that stimulates the development of testes, the hormones of which regulate development of the rest of the organism.
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She had undescended testes at birth, but her parents were told that if she didn't have them removed, she could develop cancer, so she had them removed when she was just 10.
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The only two previously known cases suggesting that sexual transmission was possible involved men with visible blood in their semen, and scientists theorized that the virus had infected their testes or prostates.
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As Harvard University biologist and study co-author James Hanken explained to Gizmodo, adults need to maintain a minimum size of ovaries and testes in order to produce enough eggs and sperm.
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The researchers were able to demonstrate a potential link between the chemicals found in the sperm and testes of adult dogs with those found in some popular off-the-shelf pet foods.
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Once mature, they travel from the testes through a network of tubes that propel them out of the penis during ejaculation, picking up enzymes and other ingredients of semen along the way.
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Nearly 95 percent of creatine is stored in the muscle, but some is stored in the liver, testes, kidneys, and brain, where it acts as a neurotransmitter and an ATP storage molecule.
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Mr. Harris, who now lives in Port Washington, N.Y., said that during a visit in the 1970s, the doctor massaged the area between his testes and anus, asking if it felt good.
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In April, she had an orchiectomy or the removal of her testes, which stops the production of testosterone, which makes hormone management easier and curbs the growth of body and facial hair.
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She said a World Athletics physician, Dr. Stéphane Bermon, told her she needed to undergo medical treatment and was given surgery as her first option: a gonadectomy to remove her internal testes.
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A technical exercise in capturing his own body full-length at a time when only small mirrors were available, its swift strokes unflinchingly render the gazing eyeballs, twisted torso, and hanging testes.
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She was told that the undescended testes could lead to cancer and would prevent her from developing as a typical female girl, but she was too young to fully understand what that meant.
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One man harbored live virus in his testes for three months, and traces of the RNA that makes up Zika has been found in other men's sexual organs for up to six months.
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Not only does Zika live and grow in some men's testes, but the viral load can continue to climb to a level much higher than was originally found at the time of infection.
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As for reproduction, men's testes would presumably work indefinitely and, though women's ovaries are believed to be loaded with a finite number of eggs, technology would surely be able to create new ones.
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But testes produce much more: Testosterone levels in men are 2700 to 1,150 nanograms per deciliter of blood, while the levels in the women are 12 to 61 nanograms per deciliter of blood.
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The Checkup In a large Australian study, researchers found that baby boys born with undescended testes had a higher risk of health problems like infertility and cancer, especially if corrective surgery was delayed.
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More than a third of the men had at least one injury that was considered severe; 129 lost one of their testes, 17 lost both and 86 had severe injuries to the penis.
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"There are cases of bodily harm or grievous bodily harm," Plett told BuzzFeed News, referring to clitoris reductions or cases like Maxi Bauermeister, where the testes were removed and the child was made infertile.
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The penis transplant does not involve the testes, where sperm are produced, so if a man with a transplanted penis does father a child, the baby would be his genetic offspring, not the donor's.
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A physician creates a small opening in the scrotum, exposing the vasa deferentia—two tubes that carry sperm from the testes to the urethra (deferentia is the plural of deferens, in case you wondered).
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But there's a catch: When you lower the testosterone in the testes, testosterone levels in the blood also drop — and that can lead to nasty side effects like low libido or problems with ejaculation.
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This also meant that testicondy evolved after afrotherians split from other placental mammals, about 100 million years ago, which suggests the common ancestor of all mammals did indeed lower their testes, Dr. Hiller said.
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In a study published in Science Advances on Friday, Japanese scientists suggested that cells of the endangered Amami spiny rat, from Japan, are sexually flexible and capable of adapting to either ovaries or testes.
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This approach has led to the revelations that smell receptors are alive and well in the kidneys, bitter taste receptors dot the sinuses and testes, and sweet taste receptors are found in the bladder.
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The donor's testes weren't transplanted for ethical reasons; the doctors thought it might be possible for the recipient to father children who would be genetically related to the donor, something not allowed by medical guidelines.
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Previous cases of suspected sexual transmission involved men with blood in their semen, leading doctors to speculate that sexual transmission took place only when the testes or prostate was so heavily infected that bleeding occurred.
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"There's a huge amount of growth and disappearance of bird gonads during the off-breeding season," Dr. McGowan said, referring to the way bird testes may expand or shrink, depending on the time of year.
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In the 1950s the psychologist John Money and his colleagues studied people born with unusual combinations of sex markers (ovaries and a penis, testes and a vagina, two X chromosomes and a scrotum, and more).
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When the delivery room nurse or the pediatrician tells the parents, "He has 10 fingers, 10 toes," or the equivalent, that person has also checked the newborn scrotum for two pea-size testes, hanging down.
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Ebola can persist for months in certain body tissues that are relatively protected from the immune system, including the eyes and the testes, and little is known about the long-term effects of the virus.
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The nice thing about the Bull Bag is that, while it was a bit too spacious around the bottom of the testes, that bagginess made for the perfect fit up top—not too tight or pinchy.
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Ebola can persist for months in certain body tissues that are relatively protected from the immune system, including the eyes and the testes, and much is still unknown about the long-term effects of the virus.
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This sets the stage for fetal hormonal sex, when the fetal embryonic testes or ovaries make hormones that further push the embryo's development in either a male or a female direction (depending on which hormones appear).
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The bile from an ox's gallbladder apparently served as an antiseptic for wounds, bull testes were used to boost the sex drive, and consuming the womb of a hare was recommended to conceive a male child.
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Males are supposed to need a Y chromosome to reproduce — it's what's responsible for the testes, after all — but a new study on mice suggests that the genes located on that chromosome may not be entirely necessary.
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If testes aren't down in the scrotum as a boy grows, they are less likely to stay healthy and functional — there may be fertility problems later on in life, and there's even a risk of testicular cancer.
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Although the scrotum was transplanted, the donor's testes had been removed for ethical reasons: Keeping them might enable the recipient to father children that belonged genetically to the organ donor, something not considered acceptable by medical guidelines.
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A new study published this August in the British medical journal The Lancet used data collected in Australia for more than 63 years, starting in the 1970s, to look at the outcomes for boys born with undescended testes.
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Many undescended testes do descend all by themselves, in the first months of a baby boy's life, but if they haven't come down by the time a child is 6 months old, the baby needs a urologic surgical procedure.
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Scientists are still theorizing about the precise genetic mechanisms at work here, but in general it's well understood that our cells have more trouble dividing without error as they age, and that includes the sperm produced in a man's testes.
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Besides having regular sex, there are other important things men can do to improve their semen quality (and chances of fathering a child): Remember, it takes a little over two months to replenish a men's entire sperm population in the testes.
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One paper found that testes mass in male narwhals correlated with tusk size, leading them to believe that the tusk is a way for males to attract females: males, for the most part, are the ones who develop the tusks.
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Just remember that pushing the switch down toward the testes closes the valve, and pushing it up toward the abdomen opens it, meaning sperm will be a-flowing along with semen (it would be a shame to mix up these directions).
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Others have XY chromosomes and undescended testes, but a mutation affecting a key enzyme makes them appear female at birth; they're raised as girls, though at puberty, rising testosterone levels spur a deeper voice, an elongated clitoris and increased muscle mass.
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The authors, many of whom were physicians who treated the women, describe telling them that leaving in their internal testes "carries no health risk," but that removing them would allow the athletes to resume competition, though possibly hurt their performance.
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Technically, they are known as bilateral gynandromorphs, and they have been a hot topic in the scientific community ever since 1923, when a doctor cut open his bi-sex chicken to eat it and found testes as well as an ovary.
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After this randomized, controlled clinical trial, the research team experimented with "little bits of human testes" provided by organ donors and then conducted test tube experiments on the endocrine cells, called Leydig and Sertoli cells, which produce testosterone, explained Jégou.
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In humans, offspring normally receive two pairs of X chromosomes or an X and a Y. The presence of a Y chromosome releases a hormone telling the body to develop a penis and testes (and so on) instead of a vagina and ovaries.
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Looking at testes from different dog species between the years 1988 and 2014, researchers found that the quality of the sperm had declined significantly in that time period, with a smaller percentage of dog sperm being motile—or able to swim—than before.
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We got the doc out Wednesday in NYC and wanted to get his take on the new craze taking over the social media platform ... where guys are -- we're not kidding -- dipping their testicles into soy sauce to prove whether testes have taste receptors.
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After examining data from nearly 25,217 young men, researchers determined that fish oil supplement consumption was associated with a higher sperm count, larger testes and improved levels of hormones that contribute to male fertility, according to the report published in JAMA Network Open.
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While living in Belgium, where she was born, Ms. Odiele underwent two operations that doctors said were needed for her condition: One when she was just 10 and had her internal testes removed, and another when she had vaginal reconstructive surgery at 18.
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The Risk Factors The factors that put men at risk of developing testicular cancer are unfortunately non-reversible and non-preventable: a family or personal history of testicular cancer and being born with one or both testes undescended (cryptorchidism) are the main ones.
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About 3 percent of full-term male infants, though, don't have both testes descended at birth, a condition called cryptorchidism (crypto means hidden, and orchis is Greek for testicle, and the source of the word orchid, supposedly because of the shape of certain orchid roots).
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A startling study from 2016 of fish in U.S. wildlife refuges in the Northeast found that 60 to 100 percent of all the male smallmouth bass studied had eggs growing in their testes—a startling feminization—which researchers linked to endocrine disrupters in the waters.
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This is the first time that such a decline in male fertility has been reported in the dog and we believe this is due to environmental contaminants, some of which we have detected in dog food and in the sperm and testes of the animals themselves.
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"It remains unclear ... how Ebola virus is able to lay dormant in an infected host, but ... the virus may replicate more slowly and persist in immune-privileged sites, such as the eye and testes, long after the acute, symptomatic phase of disease has occurred," the researchers wrote.
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Odiele was born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome—in which a woman has XY chromosomes instead of an XX chromosome, along with undescended testes—and her parents followed a doctor's advice for her to have multiple surgeries in order to develop as a "normal" girl; but wishes they hadn't.
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For example, we now know that rather than developing under the direction of a single gene, the fetal embryonic testes or ovaries develop under the direction of opposing gene networks, one of which represses male development while stimulating female differentiation and the other of which does the opposite.
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The ancient Jewish rabbinical code known as the Tosefta, for example, sometimes treated people who had male and female parts (such as testes and a vagina) as women — they could not inherit property or serve as priests; at other times, as men — forbidding them to shave or be secluded with women.
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Despite his father's protests, he paid his own way through the University of Pennsylvania medical school by working as a railway porter for the Pullman-Standard Co. Before graduating in 1918, the budding urologist pioneered a surgical technique to repair a set of veins that drain blood from the testes.
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"This is the first time that such a decline in male fertility has been reported in the dog and we believe this is due to environmental contaminants, some of which we have detected in dog food and in the sperm and testes of the animals themselves," Lea said in a press release.
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For as much as the pharmaceutical industry claims that a half-cup of dehydrated rattlesnake testes lengthens your back muscles, there is a whole catalogue of scientific research that states, in no uncertain terms, that all those laser-printed amino acids on the back of the tub are either useless or dangerous.
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The I.A.A.F. had argued that athletes classified with "differences of sexual development," also known as intersex athletes — particularly women who possess testes and natural testosterone levels in the male range — gain an unfair advantage in women's events ranging from 400 meters to one mile because they have additional muscle mass, strength and oxygen-carrying capacity.
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Often, when a baby is born intersex — meaning that they were born with sex characteristics (including genitals, gonads, and chromosome patterns) that don't fall within strict definitions of male or female — doctors recommend "normalizing" surgeries to make their genitals look more like how society expects men and women to look, or to remove internal gonads like testes.
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If the testis cannot be felt at all, the surgeons may do a laparoscopic procedure, putting a camera in through the baby's belly button, and if they find the testes in the abdomen, there may be a two-stage operation, first freeing up the testis and then, six months later, in another procedure, bringing it down into the scrotum.
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Regardless of Monsanto's definition of safe, hundreds of studies have recently shown a wide variety of harm from glyphosate-based herbicides, including neurotoxicity, liver disease, thyroid disorders, endocrine disruption, birth defects, testes and sperm damage, growth of breast cancer cells, increased non Hodgkin's Lymphoma, the destruction of gut bacteria which leads to numerous autoimmune diseases and autism symptoms, and more.
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On the other hand, many of the baby boys that pediatricians refer to urology because of undescended testicles actually turn out to have what are called retractile testes, which do not need surgery, said Dr. Aseem R. Shukla, a pediatric urologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an associate professor of urology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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Procope-Couteau "suggested the best way to control a child's sex would be to remove the testes or ovary connected with the unwanted sex; though a less drastic mean for ladies would be to lie on the correct side, and let gravity do the rest," according to The Evolution of Sex Determination, a book by biologists Leo W. Beukeboom and Nicolas Perrin.
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" A host of doctors testified on Richards' behalf, detailing the extent to which she actually was a woman: Richards underwent endocrinological testing and received female hormone therapy; The removal of her testes resulted in decreased androgen production and muscle mass; Her surgery resulted in an internal sexual structure that was "anatomically similar" to a woman who had a hysterectomy and ovariectomy; Richards had the "psychological and social development of a female.
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