The results suggested that early prolonged hormonal therapy is advisable in all patients with cryptorchidism to increase the speed of testicular descent to the scrotum achieved by surgery, and thereby ...

My 2013 book, How We Do It, addressed an enduring mystery in mammal reproduction: “It is often claimed that the word ‘testify’ comes from an ancient Roman custom in which a man would clutch his testes ...

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The fossil record preserves predominantly vestiges of hard structures such as bones or teeth. Consequently, resolving the evolution of soft-tissue structures such as muscle or brain tissue requires ...

Puberty is full of ups and downs — sometimes literally. The moment when testicles descend is a pivotal one in the male life cycle, but as scientists point out in a PLOS Biology study published ...

Reader, here is an incomplete list of things you should not try with elephants: a memory contest, jump rope and castration. See, in addition to having uncanny recall and a firm relationship with ...

Afrotherians, such as elephants, are the only group of mammals that do not show testicular descent, but rather have testes positioned deep inside the abdomen. Conventional fossils reveal an animal's ...

The efficacy of LHRH in cryptorchidism is still debated. The aim of this study was to quantify testicular descent after LHRH therapy. Synthetic LHRH (Hoe 471) was given intranasally in a spray dose of ...

Descent of testes is surely connected with the fact that all mammals are “warm-blooded”, typically having high core body temperatures around 37 o C (98.6 o F). Going further, many authors have baldly ...