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Observations in Ar hypomorphic animals demonstrate that terminal differentiation of spermatids and their release from the seminiferous epithelium is AR dependent and maximally sensitive to AR depletion within the testis. Cell-specific disruption of Ar in Sertoli cells of hypomorphic animals further shows that progression of late-round spermatids to elongating steps is sensitive to loss of Sertoli cell AR function, but that progression through meiosis and early-round spermatid differentiation are surprisingly unaffected.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1242\/dev.00957","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2003,12,30]],"date-time":"2003-12-30T23:48:01Z","timestamp":1072828081000},"page":"459-467","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":381,"title":["Androgen receptor function is required in Sertoli cells for the terminal differentiation of haploid spermatids"],"prefix":"10.1242","volume":"131","author":[{"given":"Robert W.","family":"Holdcraft","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Robert E.","family":"Braun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"237","reference":[{"key":"2021042605054943900_REF1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Amory, J. 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