Endocrine gland that produces the gametes of an organism.
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However, mechanisms underlying the gonad-specific expression of Gnrhr are not well understood.
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Testis torsion is a surgical emergency that lead to permanent gonad damage.
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The gonad is a unique biological system for studying cell-fate decisions.
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Fish sampling was in post-spawning period, early and advanced gonad maturation, and pre-spawning.
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The bipotential gonad expresses genes associated with both the male and female pathways.
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To begin with, the thyroid was once a sex gland, pure and simple.
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These gonado-centric types are not all necessarily sex gland deficient, as the term eunuchoid implies.
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Nature's only other mode of securing perpetual youth seems to be by prolonging the time allotted to the sex gland crescendo.
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Since it is especially a sex gland inhibitor, the thyroid and pituitary become freer to exert their influences than under the thymus régime.
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Oh, he said they'd check my endocrine glands; my thyroid, pituitary-my sex glands.
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The gonads is the name applied to the generative or reproductive glands considered collectively.
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A prerequisite for adequate ante-pituitary function is a normal secretion of the interstitial cells of the reproductive glands.
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His conclusion is that the reproductive glands are more sensitive to the effects of alcohol than any other organ.
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Injuries to the reproductive glands, sometimes the slightest bruises, may lead to atrophy, and a change of personality follows in less than six weeks.