Table 1:
Percentages of various spermatogenic cell types and Sertoli cells in neonatal and prepubertal mice (adapted from Bellve et al. [72])
| Cell type | Postnatal day | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6d | 8d | 10d | 12d | 14d | 16d | 18d | 20d | |
| Early differentiated spermatogonia | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Differentiated spermatogonia | - | 27 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 10 |
| Preleptotene spermatocyes | - | - | 15 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 7 |
| Leptotene spermatocytes | - | - | 15 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 9 |
| Zygotene spermatocytes | - | - | - | 23 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| Pachytene spermatocytes | - | - | - | - | 15 | 27 | 36 | 33 |
| Secondary spermatocytes | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Round spermatids | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 |
| Sertoli cells | 84 | 73 | 52 | 39 | 37 | 39 | 29 | 28 |