Di Persio, Sara
Leitão, Elsa
Wöste, Marius
Tekath, Tobias
Cremers, Jann-Frederik
Dugas, Martin
Li, Xiaolin
Meyer zu Hörste, Gerd
Kliesch, Sabine
Laurentino, Sandra
Neuhaus, Nina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0181-6194
Horsthemke, Bernhard
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HO 949/23-1, NE 2190/3-1)
Article History
Received: 1 April 2021
Accepted: 1 August 2021
First Online: 21 August 2021
Change Date: 13 January 2023
Change Type: Update
Change Details: Open access funding note missed in the original publication. Now, it has been added in the Funding section
Change Date: 13 January 2023
Change Type: Update
Change Details: The tagging error in the co-author name has been corrected
Declarations
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: Testicular biopsies were obtained from infertility patients presenting with obstructive azoospermia and crypozoospermia at the Department of Clinical and Surgical Andrology, University Hospital Münster, Germany. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of Münster and the State Medical Board (No. 2008-090-f-S). Following written informed consent for the use of one additional testicular biopsy for this research project, the tissue was obtained during surgery for microdissection testicular sperm extraction (mTESE) as well as histological analysis.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.