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Wolffian Ducts

"Wolffian Ducts" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A pair of excretory ducts of the middle kidneys (MESONEPHROI) of an embryo, also called mesonephric ducts. In higher vertebrates, Wolffian ducts persist in the male forming VAS DEFERENS, but atrophy into vestigial structures in the female.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Wolffian Ducts" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Wolffian Ducts" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2017
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.