Cool study showing how alternative cell types can synthesize hormones in the vertebrate gonad! A previously unrecognized role for this relatively new cell type. Congrats to the authors 🥂🥂
Fany M. Real
🚨Preprint🚨
An unexpected source of sex hormones in mammalian gonads: Supporting-like cells (SLCs) 🐇
SLCs have latent steroidogenic potential and may be an ancestral lineage conserved beyond mammals
Led by @ivan-barbera-aura.bsky.social & V Chung
Bluetorial 1/15👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
