The new research overturns that idea, showing that making female reproductive organs is an active process that involves dismantling a primitive male tissue called the Wolffian duct. In males ...

In Complete AIS (CAIS), testes exist in the abdomen while the external genitals are female. The Wolffian, or male, duct structures do not form because of the lack of response to androgens.

In the very early stages of pregnancy, a baby has a structure called a Wolffian duct. These become the male sex organs. These change as a female grows to become the Mullerian duct. This is where ...

Recently, the clinical practice of prophylactic salpingoophorectomy for women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 ... to its roles as a marker of renal- and Wolffian duct-derived tissues. Our findings that ...

When fetuses form, they all contain an embryonic structure called the wolffian duct. This area of the embryo is where male sex organs are formed. If a fetus begins to form female sex organs ...

The majority of these people are best reared as females and many pregnancies with living offspring ... secreted from Leydig cells does not prevent the regression of the Wolffian duct. Therefore, ...

The researchers discovered, unexpectedly, that in the Dnmt1-inactivated mice, Wolffian duct epithelial cells migrated into the bladder, transformed to look and behave like bladder cells ...