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A novel circulating hormone of testis origin in humans

scientific article published in December 2004

A possible association of a human tektin-t gene mutation (A229V) with isolated non-syndromic asthenozoospermia: Case Report

article

Absence of testicular DAZ gene expression in idiopathic severe testiculopathies

article

Adherence to Levothyroxine Treatment Among Patients With Hypothyroidism: A Northeastern Italian Survey

article

Age-matched cavernous peak systolic velocity: a highly sensitive parameter in the diagnosis of arteriogenic erectile dysfunction

Analysis of meiosis in intratesticular germ cells from subjects affected by classic Klinefelter's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms of FSH receptor gene suggests association with testicular cancer susceptibility

scientific article published on 22 April 2008

Analysis of the DAZ gene family in cryptorchidism and idiopathic male infertility

scientific article published in April 2004

Androgen receptor gene CAG and GGC repeat lengths in cryptorchidism

article

Androgen receptor is expressed in both X- and Y-carrier human spermatozoa

Androgens stimulate endothelial progenitor cells through an androgen receptor-mediated pathway

article by Carlo Foresta et al published 4 September 2007 in Clinical Endocrinology

Anthropometric, penile and testis measures in post-pubertal Italian males

scientific article published on 9 July 2012

Association of age-related macular degeneration with polymorphisms in vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptor

scientific article published on 14 May 2010

Association of testicular germ cell tumor with polymorphisms in estrogen receptor and steroid metabolism genes

scientific article published on 29 January 2010

Asymmetric development of peripheral atherosclerosis in patients with erectile dysfunction: An ultrasonographic study

article

Bone density and risk of osteoporosis in Klinefelter syndrome

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

Bone mass in subjects with Klinefelter syndrome: role of testosterone levels and androgen receptor gene CAG polymorphism

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

Calcium-sensing receptor polymorphisms increase the risk of osteoporosis in ageing males

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Case report: high fertilization rate in conventional in-vitro fertilization utilizing spermatozoa from an oligozoospermic subject presenting microdeletions of the Y chromosome long arm.

scientific article published in May 1998

Cause di infertilità maschile: studio prospettico monocentrico di 9 anni su 1737 pazienti con ridotto numero totale di spermatozoi

Cavernous Artery Intima-Media Thickness: A New Parameter in the Diagnosis of Vascular Erectile Dysfunction

Changes in Serum Insulin-Like Factor 3 during Normal Male Puberty

Characteristics of a nationwide cohort of patients presenting with isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH).

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Chromosome abnormalities in sperm of individuals with constitutional sex chromosomal abnormalities.

scientific article

Circulating endothelial progenitor cells in subjects with erectile dysfunction

article by C Foresta et al published 24 February 2005 in International Journal of Impotence Research

Clinical implication of endothelial progenitor cells

scientific article published on January 2010

Consensus statement on diagnosis and clinical management of Klinefelter syndrome.

scientific article published on December 2010

Contemporary genetics-based diagnostics of male infertility

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Copy number variations of E2F1: a new genetic risk factor for testicular cancer

scientific article published on 19 January 2017

D-Aspartic acid stimulates steroidogenesis through the delay of LH receptor internalization in a mammalian Leydig cell line.

scientific article

Deregulation of Sertoli and Leydig cells function in patients with Klinefelter syndrome as evidenced by testis transcriptome analysis

Deregulation of sertoli and leydig cells function in patients with Klinefelter syndrome as evidenced by testis transcriptome analysis

scientific article

Detailed functional studies on androgen receptor mild mutations demonstrate their association with male infertility

scientific article

Diagnostic and clinical features in azoospermia

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Diagnostics of CFTR-negative patients with congenital bilateral absence of vas deferens: which mutations are of most interest?

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Doppler ultrasound of the testis in azoospermic subjects as a parameter of testicular function

scientific article published on 01 November 1998

E2F1 copy number variations contribute to spermatogenic impairment and cryptorchidism by increasing susceptibility to heat stress

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Early protein profile of human embryonic secretome

scientific article published in January 2016

Editorial [Hot Topic: Relaxin and Related Peptides (Guest Editors: A. Ferlin and C. Foresta)]

Effect of relaxin on human sperm functions

scientific article

Effect of vardenafil on endothelial progenitor cells in hypogonadotrophic hypogonadal patients: role of testosterone treatment

scientific article

Effects of acute hCG stimulation on serum INSL3 and 25-OH vitamin D in Klinefelter syndrome

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

Effects of endogenous FSH on normal human spermatogenesis in adults

Endocrine and psychological aspects of sexual dysfunction in Klinefelter patients.

scientific article published on 17 February 2018

Endothelial progenitor cells as a new cardiovascular risk factor in Klinefelter's syndrome.

scientific article published on 11 March 2010

European Acedemy of Andrology (EAA) GUIDELINES ON KLINEFELTER SYNDROME - Endorsing Organisation: European Society of Endocrinology

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Evidence for a Stimulatory Role of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone on the Spermatogonial Population in Adult Males

article

FSH receptor gene polymorphisms in fertile and infertile Italian men.

scientific article

Follicle-stimulating hormone treatment in oligozoospermic patients

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Follicle-stimulating hormone treatment of male infertility

scientific article

Functional and cytologic features of the contralateral testis in cryptorchidism

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Funzione delle cellule di Leydig e qualità spermatica

Genetic Abnormalities among Severely Oligospermic Men Who Are Candidates for Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

Genetic alterations associated with cryptorchidism

scientific article published in November 2008

Genetic and molecular diagnostics of male infertility in the clinical practice.

scientific article published on January 2014

Genetic causes of male infertility

scientific article published on 27 June 2006

Guest Editors: Carlo Foresta, Alberto Ferlin

Guidelines for the appropriate use of genetic tests in infertile couples

scientific article published in May 2002

Heat shock protein and heat shock factor expression in sperm: relation to oligozoospermia and varicocele.

scientific article published on 22 January 2010

High frequency of well-defined Y-chromosome deletions in idiopathic Sertoli cell-only syndrome

scientific article published in February 1998

Hormonal and genetic control of testicular descent

scientific article published on December 2007

Hormonal treatment of male infertility: FSH.

scientific article published on December 2007

How the human spermatozoa sense the oocyte: a new role of SDF1-CXCR4 signalling

scientific article published on 30 May 2011

Human male infertility and Y chromosome deletions: role of the AZF-candidate genes DAZ, RBM and DFFRY

article

Human papilloma virus in the sperm cryobank: an emerging problem?

scientific article published in June 2011

Hypovitaminosis D is associated with erectile dysfunction in type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 12 January 2016

Hypovitaminosis D is associated with lower urinary tract symptoms and benign prostate hyperplasia in type 2 diabetes.

scientific article published on 4 September 2015

INSL3 in the muscolo-skeletal system

scientific article published on 06 January 2019

INSL3 plays a role in the balance between bone formation and resorption

scientific article published in April 2009

INSL3/RXFP2 signaling in testicular descent.

scientific article

INSL3: a marker of Leydig cell function and testis-bone-skeletal muscle network

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Identification of functional binding sites for progesterone in rat Leydig cell plasma membrane

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Impaired protein stability and nuclear localization of NOBOX variants associated with premature ovarian insufficiency

scientific journal article

Improvements in human sperm quality by long-term in vitro co-culture with isolated porcine Sertoli cells

article

In young men sperm telomere length is related to sperm number and parental age.

scientific article

In-vitro spermatogenesis

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Infertile men have frequently Leydig cell dysfunction: study on hypogonadism, vitamin D and bone mass in 5177 subjects

article

Infertility: Practical Clinical Issues for Routine Investigation of the Male Partner

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Inhibin B plasma concentrations in infertile patients with DAZ gene deletions treated with FSH.

article

Insulin-Like Factor 3: A Novel Circulating Hormone of Testicular Origin in Humans

Insulin-like factor 3 as a marker of testicular function in obese men.

scientific article published on 18 February 2009

Insulin-like factor 3 gene mutations in testicular dysgenesis syndrome: clinical and functional characterization.

scientific article published on 10 May 2006

Klinefelter syndrome (KS): genetics, clinical phenotype and hypogonadism

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

La qualità del liquido seminale è predittiva di morbilità: uno studio di coorte danese su 4712 uomini con un lungo follow-up

Lack of the T54A polymorphism of the DAZL gene in infertile Italian patients.

scientific article published on 25 June 2004

Late-onset hypogonadism: beyond testosterone

scientific article published on March 2015

Le mutazioni del gene SOX8, SRY-correlato, si associano a uno spettro di disordini riproduttivi umani

article

Male infertility and ICSI: Male infertility and ICSI: are there limits?

article

Male infertility and androgen receptor gene mutations: clinical features and identification of seven novel mutations

scientific article

Male infertility caused by a de novo partial deletion of the DAZ cluster on the Y chromosome

scientific article (publication date: November 2000)

Male infertility: role of genetic background

scientific article published on June 2007

Mechanism of human papillomavirus binding to human spermatozoa and fertilizing ability of infected spermatozoa

scientific article

Metabolic syndrome and erectile dysfunction: the ultrasound evaluation of cavernosal atherosclerosis

scientific article

Molecular analysis of the androgen receptor gene in testicular cancer

article

Molecular and Clinical Characterization of Y Chromosome Microdeletions in Infertile Men: A 10-Year Experience in Italy

article

Molecular karyotyping of human single sperm by array- comparative genomic hybridization

scientific article

Molecular karyotyping of single sperm with nuclear vacuoles identifies more chromosomal abnormalities in patients with testiculopathy than fertile controls: implications for ICSI.

scientific article

Mutational and functional studies on NR5A1 gene in 46,XY disorders of sex development: identification of six novel loss of function mutations

Mutational screening of NR5A1 gene encoding steroidogenic factor 1 in cryptorchidism and male factor infertility and functional analysis of seven undescribed mutations

scientific article published on 16 May 2015

Mutations in INSL3 and RXFP2 genes in cryptorchid boys

scientific article published in April 2009

Mutations in dynein genes in patients affected by isolated non-syndromic asthenozoospermia

scientific article

Mutations in the insulin-like factor 3 receptor are associated with osteoporosis

scientific article

Negative Association Between Sclerostin and INSL3 in Isolated Human Osteocytes and in Klinefelter Syndrome: New Hints for Testis-Bone Crosstalk

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

New genetic markers for male fertility ⬇️

scientific article published on August 20, 2012

New genetic markers for male infertility

scientific article published on June 2014

New roles for INSL3 in adults

scientific article published on April 2009

No difference in 5-HTTLPR and Stin2 polymorphisms frequency between premature ejaculation patients and controls

scientific article published on 10 April 2012

Non-neural phenotype of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy: results from a large cohort of Italian patients

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Novel Insights on Testicular Volume and Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Klinefelter Patients Undergoing Testicular Sperm Extraction. A Retrospective Clinical Study

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Novel insulin-like 3 (INSL3) gene mutation associated with human cryptorchidism

article

Oestrogen stimulates endothelial progenitor cells via oestrogen receptor-?

Offspring conceived by intracytoplasmic sperm injection

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

Osteocalcin and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin Compete on a Specific Binding Site of GPRC6A.

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Osteocalcin, a bone-derived hormone with important andrological implications.

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Osteoporosis in Klinefelter's syndrome

scientific article published on 27 March 2010

Outcomes of androgen replacement therapy in adult male hypogonadism: recommendations from the Italian society of endocrinology

scientific article

PDE-5 inhibitor, Vardenafil, increases circulating progenitor cells in humans.

scientific article published in July 2005

Penile doppler ultrasound predicts cardiovascular events in men with erectile dysfunction

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

People smoke for nicotine, but lose sexual and reproductive health for tar: a narrative review on the effect of cigarette smoking on male sexuality and reproduction

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Polymorphism rs2274911 of GPRC6A as a Novel Risk Factor for Testis Failure

Polymorphisms associated with the DAZ genes on the human Y chromosome

scientific article published in October 2005

Preliminary data suggest that mutations in the CgRP pathway are not involved in human sporadic cryptorchidism

scientific article published in September 2004

Prevalence of XXY karyotypes in human blastocysts: multicentre data from 7549 trophectoderm biopsies obtained during preimplantation genetic testing cycles in IVF

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Profiling insulin like factor 3 (INSL3) signaling in human osteoblasts

scientific article

Progress in the development of childhood cancer therapy

article

Prostate volume and growth during testosterone replacement therapy is related to visceral obesity in Klinefelter syndrome

scholarly article by R Selice et al published December 2013 in European Journal of Endocrinology

Protective Role of Testicular Hormone INSL3 From Atrophy and Weakness in Skeletal Muscle

scientific article published on 28 September 2018

Quando e con che frequenza misurare PSA e testosterone (totale o libero) dopo i 60 anni?

RXFP1 is expressed on the sperm acrosome, and relaxin stimulates the acrosomal reaction of human spermatozoa

scientific article published in April 2009

Re: Taylor P. Kohn, Jaden R. Kohn, Ryan C. Owen, R. Matthew Coward. The Prevalence of Y-chromosome Microdeletions in Oligozoospermic Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of European and North American Studies. Eur Urol 2019;76:626-36: Indicati

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Recombinant FSH in the treatment of oligozoospermia

scholarly article by Carlo Foresta et al published 21 April 2009 in Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy

Reduced Number of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Hypogonadal Men

scientific article published on 22 August 2006

Reduced artery diameters in Klinefelter syndrome

scientific article published on 10 April 2012

Regulation of Sclerostin Production in Human Male Osteocytes by Androgens: Experimental and Clinical Evidence

article

Relationship Between Vascular Damage Degrees and Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Patients with Erectile Dysfunction: Effect of Vardenafil Administration and PDE5 Expression in the Bone Marrow

Relaxin and insulin-like peptide 3 in the musculoskeletal system: from bench to bedside

scientific article published on 5 April 2016

Relaxin stimulates osteoclast differentiation and activation

scientific article published on 13 October 2009

Reply to Relaxin: Not a health hazard but a promising therapeutic opportunity

article

Reply: Y-chromosome microdeletions are not associated with SHOX haploinsufficiency

scientific article published on 14 March 2014

Response to local dihydrotestosterone treatment in a patient with partial androgen-insensitivity syndrome due to a novel mutation in the androgen receptor gene

scientific article published in January 2002

Risk behaviours and alcohol in adolescence are negatively associated with testicular volume: results from the Amico-Andrologo survey

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Role of INSL3 and LGR8 in cryptorchidism and testicular functions

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Role of androgens in erectile function

scientific article

Role of estrogen receptors in menstrual cycle-related neoangiogenesis and their influence on endothelial progenitor cell physiology

scientific article

Role of familiarity versus interleukin-1 genes cluster polymorphisms in chronic periodontitis

scientific article

Role of hormones, genes, and environment in human cryptorchidism

scientific article published on 24 April 2008

Role of relaxin in human osteoclastogenesis

scientific article published in April 2009

Role of the AZFa candidate genes in male infertility

scientific article

Role of vitamin D levels and vitamin D supplementation on bone mineral density in Klinefelter syndrome

Role of vitamin D levels and vitamin D supplementation on bone mineral density in Klinefelter syndrome.

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

SARS-CoV-2 infection, male fertility and sperm cryopreservation: a position statement of the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine (SIAMS) (Società Italiana di Andrologia e Medicina della Sessualità)

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Screening mediante PSA e incidenza del cancro alla prostata

Semen quality and fertility

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Sertoli cell function in infertile patients with and without microdeletions of the azoospermia factors on the Y chromosome long arm

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Sperm DNA fragmentation testing as a diagnostic and prognostic parameter of couple infertility

scientific article published on September 2017

Sperm recovery and ICSI outcomes in Klinefelter syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

Sperm telomere length as a parameter of sperm quality in normozoospermic men.

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Spermatogenesis in Klinefelter syndrome

scientific article published on 22 March 2010

Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology

scientific article published in 2022

Store-operated calcium influx and stimulation of steroidogenesis in rat Leydig cells: role of Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channels.

scientific article

Strategies to improve early diagnosis of Klinefelter syndrome

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Suppression of the high endogenous levels of plasma FSH in infertile men are associated with improved Sertoli cell function as reflected by elevated levels of plasma inhibin B.

scientific article published on 29 April 2004

T222P mutation of the insulin-like 3 hormone receptor LGR8 is associated with testicular maldescent and hinders receptor expression on the cell surface membrane

scientific article

Telomere length: lights and shadows on their role in human reproduction

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Testicular Contrast Harmonic Imaging to Evaluate Intratesticular Perfusion Alterations in Patients With Varicocele

article by Nicola Caretta et al published January 2010 in Journal of Urology

Testicular cancer and HPV semen infection.

scientific article published on 21 December 2012

Testicular fine needle aspiration as a diagnostic tool in non-obstructive azoospermia.

scientific article published in September 2005

Testicular function and bone metabolism--beyond testosterone

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Testis Transcriptome Modulation in Klinefelter Patients with Hypospermatogenesis

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Testis cancer: genes, environment, hormones

scientific article published on 21 October 2014

Testis transcriptome analysis in male infertility: new insight on the pathogenesis of oligo-azoospermia in cases with and without AZFc microdeletion

scientific article

The INSL3-LGR8 Hormonal System in Humans: Testicular Descent, Cryptorchidism and Testicular Functions

The INSL3-LGR8/GREAT ligand-receptor pair in human cryptorchidism

scientific article

The Klinefelter syndrome is associated with high recurrence of copy number variations on the X chromosome with a potential role in the clinical phenotype

scientific article published on 20 January 2016

The Klinefelter syndrome: current management and research challenges

scientific article

The PDE5 inhibitor sildenafil increases circulating endothelial progenitor cells and CXCR4 expression

scientific article published on 24 September 2008

The great opportunity of the andrological patient: cardiovascular and metabolic risk assessment and prevention

scientific article published on 7 March 2017

The importance of SHBG and calculated free testosterone for the diagnosis of symptomatic hypogonadism in HIV-infected men: a single-centre real-life experience

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

The response to FSH treatment in oligozoospermic men depends on FSH receptor gene polymorphisms

article

The use of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) for the treatment of the infertile man: position statement from the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine (SIAMS).

scientific article published in February 2018

The use of nutraceuticals in male sexual and reproductive disturbances: position statement from the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine (SIAMS)

Thyroid scintigraphy in the era of fine-needle aspiration cytology

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Toward a pharmacogenetic approach to male infertility: polymorphism of follicle-stimulating hormone beta-subunit promoter

scientific article published on 13 October 2011

Treatment of male idiopathic infertility with recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone: a prospective, controlled, randomized clinical study

article

Treatment with human, recombinant FSH improves sperm DNA fragmentation in idiopathic infertile men depending on the FSH receptor polymorphism p.N680S: a pharmacogenetic study

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Trend nella terapia sostitutiva con testosterone negli uomini in età riproduttiva dal 2003 al 2013

Uncarboxylated osteocalcin stimulates 25-hydroxy vitamin D production in Leydig cell line through a GPRC6a-dependent pathway

scientific article

Use of recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone in the treatment of male factor infertility

scientific article published in February 2002

Variants in KITLG predispose to testicular germ cell cancer independently from spermatogenic function.

scientific article published on 13 February 2012

Warning note on male infertility treatment.

scientific article published in March 1996

What about male specific HPV related diseases?

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Y chromosome

scientific article published in The Lancet

Y chromosome haplogroups and susceptibility to testicular cancer

Y chromosome microdeletions in cryptorchidism and idiopathic infertility

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Y chromosome microdeletions in infertile men with varicocele

article

Y-chromosome haplogroups and susceptibility to azoospermia factor c microdeletion in an Italian population

scientific article published on 8 December 2006

Y-chromosome microdeletions are not associated with SHOX haploinsufficiency.

scientific article published on 5 September 2013

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