Zika Persists in Multiple Cell Types, Lowering Testosterone and Causing Testicular Atrophy (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Zika Persists in Multiple Cell Types, Lowering Testosterone and Causing Testicular Atrophy (1 of 3)

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Pictures compare the testes of uninfected mice and Zika infected mice at five and 21 days post-infection. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 22 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Uraki at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and colleagues was titled, "Zika virus causes testicular atrophy."

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[Credit: Ryuta Uraki]

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