Androgens control rodent inguinoscrotal testicular descent during a “programming window” (E12–17). It is proposed that androgen masculinises the genitofemoral nerve, but the mechanism remains unknown.

Testis descent and temperature Descent of testes is surely connected with the fact that all mammals are “warm-blooded”, typically having high core body temperatures around 37 o C (98.6 o F). Going ...

Cryptorchidism, or undescended testis, ranks among the most frequent congenital urogenital anomalies in male infants. The condition arises from disrupted testicular descent during fetal development, a ...

Undescended testicles (UT), which is used synonymously with the term cryptorchidism, is characterized as the failure of either one or both testes and their associated structures to descend during ...