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Previous experiments have established the fact that mammalian semen contains fructose, its concentration varying from a few mgm. per cent in boar to 1,000 mgm. per cent in bull; this sugar serves the spermatozoa as their natural nutrient, and they readily metabolize it1,2. At the site of its origin in the testis, and in the epididymis, the semen contains very little fructose but acquires it during its passage through the male generative tract, from the accessory glands of reproduction, mainly the seminal vesicles3.
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MANN, T., PARSONS, U. Effect of Testicular Hormone on the Formation of Seminal Fructose. Nature 160, 294 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160294a0
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