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| dense connective tissue capsule surounding testis |
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| septae of CT that divide each testis into about 250 lobules (posteriorly; from tunica albuginea) |
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| secrete testosterone; large, eosinophilic, prominent nucleolus; abundent sER; mito - tubulovesicular cristae; |
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| surounds indiv. seminiferous tubule; DCT; contractile myoid cells |
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| production of spermatocytes by spermatogonial cells |
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| meiotic divisions of spermatocytes reduce the DNA content to one copy per cell |
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| the differentiation of the (not-quite) mature sperm |
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| stimulated by: testosterone from Leydig and follicle stimulating hormone from adenohypophysis; negative feedback controls hypothalamo-pituitary axis by releasing the hormone inhibin |
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