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Some traditional herbal medicines have been administered to improve spermatogenesis. In the present study, we administered Gosha-jinki-gan (TJ107; Tsumura Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) to mice suffering from severe aspermatogenesis after busulfan treatment to determine whether TJ107 can recover spermatogenesis. Male 4-week-old C57BL\/6J mice were administered a single intraperitoneal injection of busulfan, and they were then fed a normal diet for 60 days and then a TJ107 diet or TJ107-free normal diet for another 60 days. After busulfan treatment, the weight of the testes and the epididymal sperm count progressively decreased in the normal diet group. On the other hand, in the TJ107 group, these variables dramatically recovered at 120 days. These results suggest that busulfan-induced aspermatogenesis is irreversible if appropriate treatment is not administered. Supplementation of TJ107 can completely recover the injured seminiferous epithelium via normalization of the macrophage migration and reduction of the expressions of Tool-like receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4, suggesting that TJ107 has a therapeutic effect on busulfan-induced aspermatogenesis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms19092606","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,3]],"date-time":"2018-09-03T10:50:51Z","timestamp":1535971851000},"page":"2606","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Gosha-Jinki-Gan Recovers Spermatogenesis in Mice with Busulfan-Induced Aspermatogenesis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5110-6719","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ning","family":"Qu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Division of Basic Medical Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan"},{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo 160-8402, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Miyuki","family":"Kuramasu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo 160-8402, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yoshie","family":"Hirayanagi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo 160-8402, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kenta","family":"Nagahori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo 160-8402, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0302-7658","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shogo","family":"Hayashi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo 160-8402, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuki","family":"Ogawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo 160-8402, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hayato","family":"Terayama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Division of Basic Medical Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kaori","family":"Suyama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Division of Basic Medical Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0618-0607","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Munekazu","family":"Naito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kou","family":"Sakabe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Division of Basic Medical Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Masahiro","family":"Itoh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo 160-8402, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"236","DOI":"10.1016\/j.bbmt.2003.11.004","article-title":"Addition of treosulfan to a nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen results in enhanced chimerism and immunologic tolerance in an experimental allogeneic bone marrow transplant model","volume":"10","author":"Ploemacher","year":"2004","journal-title":"Biol. 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