[Patterns of postradiation recovery of the spermatogenic epithelium in rodents and man]

On the basis of the data reported in the literature a model is proposed describing the kinetics of the post-irradiation recovery of the main spermatogenous epithelium populations. In studying the spermatogenous epithelium structure of rodents and comparing the experimental and theoretical curves the parameters necessary for the kinetics estimations have been quantitated and their specific variations analysed. From these the parameters have been obtained and the kinetic curves shaped with a reference to human spermatogenous epithelium.