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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Andrology. 2013 Sep 30;1(6):886–898. doi: 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00126.x

Table 1.

Presence or absence of lentiviral vector and/or green fluorescent protein (GFP) DNA in the periodic semen samples and the testes samples collected at the end of the study.

Treatment Monkey
Number
Sperm from Semen Testes
Sham Trans-
planted

Pre-
Irrad
Time after Irradiation (weeks)a
16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 44
Irradiated 1 0 0 0 n 0 n n nd nd
2 nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 nd nd
4 0 0 nd n 0 0 0 0 nd nd
5 nd 0 nd nd 0 nd 0 nd nd
6 + + + b b

Irradiated +
GnRH-ant
7 0 + + b b
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 nd nd
9 0 + + + ne
10 0 0 + +
11 0 nd n n ne n +
12 0 ne n + nd + n

Abbreviations: n = no ejaculate; ne = not enough ejaculate for analysis; 0 = azoospermic; + = presence of lentiviral vector and/or GFP DNA in the semen sample; =absence of lentiviral vector and/or GFP DNA in the semen sample; nd = not done.

a

Note transplantation was done 8 weeks after irradiation

b

Low numbers of germ cells in testes (see Fig. 4B).