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The nutritive cells found in seminiferou...

The nutritive cells found in seminiferous tubules are

A

Leydig's cells

B

atretic follicular cells

C

Sertoli cells

D

chromaffin cells.

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C
Wall of each seminiferous tubule is formed of a single layered germinal epithelium . Majority of cells in this epithelium are male germ cells and at centain places, there are persent tall Sertoli cells. These cells act as nurse cells providing nutrition to the developing sperms.
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