spermatocyte
nounEtymology From spermato- + -cyte.
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Biology, Cytology, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences A male gametocyte, from which a spermatozoon develops.
- The spermatogonia continue to reside in the gonocyst and form spermatocyte, which begins to increase in size.2013, Rabindra N. Chatterjee, Lucas Sanchez, Genome Analysis in Eukaryotes, page 71:
- Fragments of laminin chains can act as biologically active peptides to perturb the blood–testis barrier (BTB) permeability function by accelerating protein endocytosis (e.g., occludin) at the site, thereby destabilizing the BTB integrity to facilitate the transit of preleptotene spermatocytes.2015 August 26, “A Catalog of Proteins Expressed in the AG Secreted Fluid during the Mature Phase of the Chinese Mitten Crabs ( Eriocheir sinensis )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
- Synonyms
- nematoblast, spermatoblast, spermoblast
- Derived terms
- spermatocytal, spermatocytic, spermatocytogenesis
- Hypernyms
- gametocyte
- Coordinate terms
- oocyte