DURATION OF CYCLE OF SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM AND SPERMATOGONIAL RENEWAL IN MONKEY MACACA-ARCTOIDES
DURATION OF CYCLE OF SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM AND SPERMATOGONIAL RENEWAL IN MONKEY MACACA-ARCTOIDES
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DOI:
10.1002/aja.1001360204
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
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ANTAR, M
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CLERMONT, Y;ANTAR, M
Monkeys were sacrificed at three hours and at 12 days‐3 hours after an intraperitoneal injection with3H‐thymidine. Radioautographs were prepared of periodic acid‐Schiff‐hematoxylin‐stained sections of the testes. At three hours, the most evolved labeled germ cells were leptotene spermatocytes in stage VIII of the cycle; at 12 days‐three hours the most evolved labeled cells were pachytene spermatocytes in stage IX of the succeeding cycle. Thus, over a 12‐day interval, the most evolved labeled spermatocytes had advanced through slightly more than one complete cycle. A quantitative analysis of tubular cross sections containing labeled spermatocytes permitted the calculation of the duration of one cycle of the seminiferous epithelium which turned out to be 11.6 days. The whole process of spermatogenesis which begins with the first spermatogonial mitoses taking place in stage VIII and terminates with the release of spermatozoa taking place in stage VI of the cycle, extends over the duration of 3.8 consecutive cycles and therefore requires approximately 44 days.On the same histological material counts of resting and dividing spermatogonia were performed at various stages of the cycle to determine their mode of proliferation and renewal. Six mitotic peaks were disclosed and were located in stages VIII, X, XII, II, IV and VI of the cycle. Cell counts and labeling indices indicated that the pale type A spermatogonia were the cells dividing during the first two of these six peaks of mitoses while the type B spermatogonia divided during the remaining four peaks of mitoses. The dark type A spermatogonia were not seen to divide during the cycle and may be considered as “reserve stem cells.” Cell counts and cell ratios indicated further that the pale type A spermatogonia divided in stage VIII of the cycle (and some in stage IX) to yield about twice their number of pale type A spermatogonia: of several possible schemes the authors believe that half of these entered a long interphase and became stem cells for the spermatogonia to be formed during the next cycle; these may be referred to as “renewing stem cells”; we consider that the other half of the pale type A spermatogonia arising from stage VIII peak of mitoses divided in stage X to produce type B spermatogonia. The latter cells then could enter the series of four consecutive mitoses during which they doubled their number each time to yield a generation of primary spermatocytes.