Intestinal Adenocarcinoma Arising from a Mature Cystic Teratoma by King Man Wan, Forough Foroughi, Rajni Bansal, Martin K. Oehler

“…Mature cystic teratomas are the most common ovarian germ cell tumour and account for 10–20% of all ovarian neoplasms. …”
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Primary Yolk Sac Tumor of the Liver: A Rare Cause of Bile Duct Obstruction by Sahil M. Patel, Kenneth M. Sigman, Mohannad F. Dugum

“…Primary yolk sac tumor (YST) of the liver is an extremely rare extragonadal germ cell tumor. Here, we present a case of a young man who developed primary YST of the liver which metastasized to periductal lymph nodes causing bile duct obstruction. …”
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Mature Teratoma of the Temporal Bone in 3.5-Month-Old Baby Girl by Alshema Alqurashi, Essa Bakry, Marta Straube, Christian H. Rickert, Parwis Mir-Salim

“…Mature teratoma is a benign germ cell tumor rarely located in the temporal bone. …”
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Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection as Primary Treatment for Metastatic Seminoma by Brian Hu, Siamak Daneshmand

“…Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) is a standard treatment for nonseminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCT) that has minimal long-term morbidity. …”
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A Rare Case of a Pure Testicular Seminoma Presenting 7 Years after a Pineal Germinoma by Usman Najeeb Bhatty, Mohammed Hayat Ashrafi, Caroline Mary Nicholson, Ahsanul Haq

“…Pure testicular seminomas occurring in patients with previous intracranial germ cell tumours are extremely rare. We present such a case. …”
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Emerging Technologies to Control Oocyte Apoptosis Are Finally Treading on Fertile Ground by Jonathan L. Tilly

“…This problem is compounded in females since the ovaries, unlike the testes, are incapable of germ cell renewal in postnatal life. As a consequence, the inappropriate destruction of female germ cells (oocytes) following exposure to chemotherapeutic drugs and radiation is irreparable, often leading to premature menopause and infertility [1]. …”
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Placental Teratoma Presenting as a Lobulated Mass behind the Neck of Fetus: A Case Report by Adiga Prashanth, Rai Lavanya, K. M. Girisha, Anjali Mundkur

“…Placental teratoma is a rare nontrophoblastic benign tumour, which is thought to arise from germ cells. These tumours contain elements derived from multiple germ cell layers. …”
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Recurrent Struma Ovarii Presented with High Levels of Thyroglobulin by Christiana Oikonomou, Nikol Spathari, Stavroula Doumoulaki, Antonella Koutela, Christos Stagkoglou, Dimitris Keramidaris

“…Struma ovarii are rare ovarian tumors, of monodermal germ cell origin, containing predominantly thyroid tissue. …”
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Primary Malignancy in a Supernumerary Testicle Presenting as a Large Pelvic Mass by Justin Noroozian, Daniel Farishta, Daniel Ballow, Joseph Sonstein, Eduardo Orihuela, Eduardo Eyzaguirre

“…Another condition of the testes is seminoma, a common cause of testicular germ cell tumor. A 35-year-old male was transferred to our hospital with a diagnosis of abdominal mass causing abdominal pain. …”
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Changing Management of Clinical Low-Stage Testicular Cancer by Timothy Gilligan

“…Stage I and II testicular germ cell tumors (GCTs) are almost always cured with appropriate treatment and most ongoing research regarding these tumors focuses on minimizing treatment toxicity. …”
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Anterior Mediastinal Mass: A Rare Presentation of Tuberculosis by Gopi C. Khilnani, Neetu Jain, Vijay Hadda, Sudheer K. Arava

“…The possibilities of lymphoma or germ cell tumour were considered. A biopsy from the mass under CT guidance was performed. …”
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Growing Teratoma Syndrome by Anna Scavuzzo, Zael Arturo Santana Ríos, Nancy Reynoso Noverón, Miguel Angel Jimenez Ríos

“…Growing teratoma syndrome (GTS) is a rare clinical entity, which presents with enlarging teratomas masses of the retroperitoneum or other locations, occurring during or after systemic chemotherapy for the treatment of nonseminomatous germ cell of the testis (NSGCT), with normalised tumour markers. …”
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Anesthetic conduction in giant ovarian tumor by José Luis Muñoz Gallardo, Arletys Curbelo Hernández, José Luis Muñoz Fernández

“…Introduction: Teratoma is a germ cell tumor that frequently occurs in childbearing age, and is mostly benign. …”
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Endometrioid Paraovarian Borderline Cystic Tumor in an Infant with Proteus Syndrome by Liliana Vasquez, Mariela Tello, Ivan Maza, Monica Oscanoa, Milagros Dueñas, Haydee Castro, Alan Latorre

“…Ovarian and paraovarian neoplasms are uncommon in children, mainly originating from germ cell tumors and, least frequently, epithelial tumors. …”
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Germline and reproductive tract effects intensify in male mice with successive generations of estrogenic exposure. by Tegan S Horan, Alyssa Marre, Terry Hassold, Crystal Lawson, Patricia A Hunt

“…Our data indicate that multiple generations of exposure not only exacerbate germ cell exposure effects, but also increase the incidence and severity of reproductive tract abnormalities. …”
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Adult Granulosa Cell Tumor of the Testis: A Case Report with a Review of the Literature by Klaus-Peter Dieckmann, Julia Bertolini, Christian Wülfing

“…Immunohistology showed positive stainings of vimentin, calretinin, and inhibin with negative stainings of the typical germ cell tumor markers. Thus, the diagnosis of a benign AGCT was made. …”
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The Controversy, Challenges, and Potential Benefits of Putative Female Germline Stem Cells Research in Mammals by Zezheng Pan, Mengli Sun, Xia Liang, Jia Li, Fangyue Zhou, Zhisheng Zhong, Yuehui Zheng

“…The conventional view is that female mammals lose their ability to generate new germ cells after birth. However, in recent years, researchers have successfully isolated and cultured a type of germ cell from postnatal ovaries in a variety of mammalian species that have the abilities of self-proliferation and differentiation into oocytes, and this finding indicates that putative germline stem cells maybe exist in the postnatal mammalian ovaries. …”
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A Review of Outcomes and Technique for the Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Testicular Cancer by Zeyad R. Schwen, Mohit Gupta, Phillip M. Pierorazio

“…Encouraged by favorable early oncologic and safety outcomes for treatment of clinical stage (CS) I nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT), the R-RPLND affords the same recovery advantages as the laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (L-RPLND) while offering greater dexterity, superior visualization, and a theoretically shorter learning curve for the surgeon. …”
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The protective effects of active ingredients from acrorus tatarinowii on sperm and their molecular mechanisms by Zonglin Lu, Haiyang Zhao, Hui Wang, Xin Wang, Zixue Sun

“…Conclusion Acrorus tatarinowii exerts therapeutic effects in oligoasthenozoospermia by regulating the BCL2/Bax/Caspase3 pathway, maybe by inhibiting apoptosis, and promoting germ cell proliferation. These findings highlight its potential as a natural remedy for male infertility associated with sperm function disorders.…”
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Multi-tissue characterization of the constitutive heterochromatin proteome in Drosophila identifies a link between satellite DNA organization and transposon repression. by Ankita Chavan, Lena Skrutl, Federico Uliana, Melanie Pfister, Franziska Brändle, Laszlo Tirian, Delora Baptista, Dominik Handler, David Burke, Anna Sintsova, Pedro Beltrao, Julius Brennecke, Madhav Jagannathan

“…We further demonstrate that this gonadal atrophy can be rescued by mutating the checkpoint kinase, Chk2, which mediates germ cell arrest in response to transposon mobilization. …”
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