Dimethyl Sulfoxide Attenuates Radiation-Induced Testicular Injury through Facilitating DNA Double-Strand Break Repair

Figure 4

DMSO improves spermatogonial stem cells and spermatogonia survival after irradiation. (a) Representative images of the GFRα-1-stained testis within 120 d after irradiation; GFRα-1-positive cells are indicated by blue arrows. (b) Quantitative analysis is shown at the indicated days post-IR. . (c) Representative images of the c-Kit-stained testis and (d) quantitative analysis are shown at the indicated days post-IR. . Error bars indicate (). , , and . Student’s -tests were used to determine statistical significance in (b) and (d).

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