Gonocyte

Gonocyte is a term created in the 1957 from scientists Yves Clermont and Bernard Perey. Gonocytes relate to both fetal and neonatal germ cells from the point in which they enter the testis primordia until they reach the base membrane at the seminiferous cords and differentiate. It is responsible for gametogenesis, which is spermatogenesis in males, and oogenesis in females. Gonocytes include gametogonia (spermatogonia and oogonia), oocytes, ootids, and ova. The overall structures of fetal and postnatal gonocytes are described as being large and spherical, with a prominent nucleus and 2 nucleoli.

Ovum
Oviposition
Oviparity
Ovoviviparity
Vivipary

Reproductive endocrinology
and infertility

Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis
Andrology
Hormone

Breast

Index of reproductive medicine

Description	Anatomy male female Physiology menstrual cycle Development sex determination and differentiation

Disease	Infections STD and STI Congenital male female Neoplasms and cancer male female gonadal germ cell Other male female Symptoms and signs eponymous

Treatment	Procedures male female Drugs benign prostatic hypertrophy erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation sexual dysfunction infection STDs hormones androgens estrogens progestogens GnRH prolactin Assisted reproduction Birth control hormonal

Index of the breast

Description	Anatomy Physiology

Disease	Congenital Neoplasms and cancer Other

Treatment	Procedures

References

{{Culty, M. (2013, June 19). Gonocytes, from the Fifties to the Present: Is There a Reason to Change the Name?1. Retrieved October 27, 2014, from http://www.biolreprod.org/content/89/2/46.full}}

{{Culty, M. (n.d.). Gonocytes, the forgotten cells of the germ cell lineage. Birth Defects Research Part C: Embryo Today: Reviews, 87(1), 1-26. Retrieved November 7, 2014 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/bdrc.20142/asset/20142_ftp.pdf?v=1&t=i276igh9&s=25f3a2b98ee823667b4e7acc7df9da1fbae3f0f4 }}

{{Clermont V & Perey B. Quantitative study of the cell population of the seminiferous tubules in immature rats. Amer. J. Anal. 100:241-67, 1957. [Department of Anatomy, McGill University. Montreal. Canada. Retrieved November 7, 2014 http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1987/A1987J148000001.pdf}}