Postnatal germ cells are controlled by FSH during 'minipuberty' at 3-6 months, and deranged by cryptorchidism to cause seminoma and infertility

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1127109

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

This study will investigate the exciting possibility that the risk of cancer and infertility in adulthood in infants born with undescended testes might be obviated by understanding how primitive sperm cells behave in the postnatal testis. The study will define the key changes to the primitive sperm cells, including their timing and control by hormones, so surgery is done at the right time +/-accessory hormone treatment to optimise future sperm function for babies with undescended testes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 01-01-2019

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $813,739.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cryptorchidism | germ cells | infertility | testicular cancer | testis

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