title: The roles of fibroblast growth factors in the testicular development and tumor.
abstract: Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) are classically known as hormonal factors and recent studies have revealed that FGFs have a key role in regulating growth and development of several reproductive organs, including the testis. The testis is mainly consisted of germ cells, Sertoli cells and Leydig cells to develop and maintain the male phenotype and reproduction. This review summarizes the structure and fuctions of testis, the roles of FGFs on testicular development and potential involvement in testicular tumor and its regulatory mechanism. Among 23 members of FGFs, the FGF-1, FGF-2, FGF-4, FGF-8, FGF-9, and FGF-21 were involved and describe in details. Understanding the roles and mechanism of FGFs is the foundation to modeling testicular development and treatments in testicular disease. Therefore, in the last part, the potential therapy with FGFs for the testis of cancer and diabetes was also discussed.
authors.affiliation: The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China ; KCHRI at the Department of Pediatrics, The University of Louisville, Louisville 40202, USA.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Skibba
authors.forename: Chi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xin
authors.forename: Yaqin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005346:Fibroblast Growth Factors / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007985:Leydig Cells / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D012708:Sertoli Cells / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000502:physiology; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D013737:Testis / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development*
chemical_list: D005346:Fibroblast Growth Factors