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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Lipid Res. 2018 Aug 25;72:18–41. doi: 10.1016/j.plipres.2018.08.002

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