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. 2020 Nov 18;10:20067. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-76902-9

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Testis of gilthead seabream fed with 0 (control, a,b,e,f), 2.5 (d,g) or 5 (c,h) µg of EE2/g of food for 28 days followed by a recovery period of 146 days of feeding with a standard diet showing collapsed tubules consisting of mainly spermatogonia stem cells (arrow) and primary spermatogonia (solid arrowhead), expanded interstitial tissue (IT) and necrotic areas (Na). Note the scarce proliferative interstitial (asterisk, f,h), Sertoli (open arrowhead, e,h) and germ (solid arrowhead, g) cells. H–E (ad); PCNA-immunolabelling (eh).