{"id":142,"date":"2004-10-21T04:11:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T10:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2004-10-21T04:11:56","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T10:11:56","slug":"cancer-scientists-make-unexpected-discovery-on-male-infertility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/cancer-scientists-make-unexpected-discovery-on-male-infertility\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Scientists Make Unexpected Discovery On Male Infertility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlypunjab.com\/\">OnlyPunjab.com<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sperm cells develop in the testis and undergo a series of changes until they are mature and viable. They begin life as round cells and as they mature they elongate and develop a tail.<\/p>\n<p>Defects at any stage of this process can prevent the cells from maturing and lead to male infertility.<\/p>\n<p>The team knocked out the function of the gene that codes for JAM-C in mice. They found that the male mice unable to produce JAM-C were infertile and had round instead of elongated sperm cells.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlypunjab.com\/real\/fullstory-newsID-8127.html\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OnlyPunjab.com reports: Sperm cells develop in the testis and undergo a series of changes until they are mature and viable. They begin life as round cells and as they mature they elongate and develop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}