Epididymis
"Epididymis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The convoluted cordlike structure attached to the posterior of the TESTIS. Epididymis consists of the head (caput), the body (corpus), and the tail (cauda). A network of ducts leaving the testis joins into a common epididymal tubule proper which provides the transport, storage, and maturation of SPERMATOZOA.
| Descriptor ID |
D004822
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A05.360.444.371
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1988 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Epididymis" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Abdelatty AM, Badr OAM, Mohamed SA, Khattab MS, Dessouki SM, Farid OAA, Elolimy AA, Sakr OG, Elhady MA, Mehesen G, Bionaz M. Long term conjugated linoleic acid supplementation modestly improved growth performance but induced testicular tissue apoptosis and reduced sperm quality in male rabbit. PLoS One. 2020; 15(1):e0226070.