SPONTANEOUS LIPID-PEROXIDATION IN RABBIT AND MOUSE EPIDIDYMAL SPERMATOZOA - DEPENDENCE OF RATE ON TEMPERATURE AND OXYGEN CONCENTRATION
SPONTANEOUS LIPID-PEROXIDATION IN RABBIT AND MOUSE EPIDIDYMAL SPERMATOZOA - DEPENDENCE OF RATE ON TEMPERATURE AND OXYGEN CONCENTRATION
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DOI:
10.1095/biolreprod32.2.342
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
STOREY, BT
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作者:
ALVAREZ, JG;STOREY, BT
The rate of spontaneous lipid peroxidation, as measured by formation of malonaldehyde (MA), was determined as a function of O2 concentration and temperature in mouse and rabbit spermatozoa released from the cauda epididymidis. The peroidation rate was linear in O2 concentration in the suspending medium up to 210 .mu.M (the concentration at PO2 [partial pressure of O2] of ambient air at 34.degree. C) for sperm from both species over the temperature range 34-40.degree. C. This is the range over which the reaction is measurable for both species: below 34.degree. C, the rates became too slow to be measured accurately for rabbit sperm, while above 40.degree. C the rates for mouse sperm become too rapid. This narrow range is characteristic of a high activation energy (EA) for the peroxidation process. Values of EA were calculated from plots of Kox vs. (T)-1 where kox is a 2nd order rate constant with the units (108 cells/ml)-1. It is defined by the equation: vma = kox (sp) (O2) is the O2 concentrations in the suspending medium. For mouse sperm, EA was 78.7 kcal/mol (329 KJ/mol); for rabbit sperm, the value was 77.6 kcal/ml (324 KJ/mol). These high Ea and consequent steep dependence of the spontaneous lipid peroxidation rates on temperature favor long sperm life in the epididymis is .apprx. 32.degree. C and low PO2 in these scrotal animals, while allowing for a relatively short life at 37.degree. C at higher PO2 in the oviduct.