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With the use of mixed-hemadsorption-hybrid-antibody (MHA-HA) test, H-Y antigen was studied on neonatal testicular cells and fractionated testicular cells from young mice (4–6 weeks old). H-Y antigen was undetectable on spermatogonia cells from neonatal testes but became fully expressed on late spermatids. Our data suggested that there was postmeiotic expression of H-Y antigen.
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Koo, G.C., Mittl, L.R. & Goldberg, C.L. Expression of H-Y antigen during spermatogenesis. Immunogenetics 9, 293–296 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01570423
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