title: Tail stump spermatozoa: morphogenesis of the defect. An ultrastructural study of sperm and testicular biopsy.
abstract: We have studied the ultrastructure of testes biopsies and immotile spermatozoa from a supposed secondary infertile male. A wide range of tail defects has been described in testes and semen. Among these, tail stump spermatozoa occurs rarely. Although the origin of this defect is unknown, testes sections revealed that damage occurs during spermiogenesis at the latest stages during flagellum elongation in spermatids.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de cytologie clinique et biologie de la reproduction CHU Bretonneau, Tours/France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barthelemy
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Tharanne
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lebos
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lecomte
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lansac
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D013077:Sperm Head / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013081:Sperm Motility; D013082:Sperm Tail / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013737:Testis / Q000648:ultrastructure*