Behavior of stem cell spermatogonia in the adult rat irradiated testis.
Behavior of stem cell spermatogonia in the adult rat irradiated testis.
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成年大鼠受辐射睾丸中干细胞精原细胞的行为。
DOI:
10.1095/biolreprod19.4.747
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
C. Huckins
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作者:
C. Huckins
Radioresistant spermatogonia have been identified, quantitated and characterized in several studies of irradiated testes of the adult rat. In the first study, adult male rats, exposed to 330 R of whole body cobalt irradiation, were killed at several intervals up to 51 days. This dose selectively destroyed almost all spermatogonia except for some radioresistant elements that were identified as type As stem cells. Minimal numbers of these spermatogonia occurred between 10 and 13 days after irradiation when values were 12-15% of controls. In the same period, differentiating sperms- togonia and preleptotene spermatocytes were only about 1% of control figures. Beginning at 13 days, the type As survivors and their progeny in the proliferating compartment underwent enhanced mitotic activity which led to the eventual restoration of the spermatogonial population to its full size by 51 days after irradiation. In a second set of experiments, adult male rats were injected with (cid:1)3 HI TdR and subsequently either irradiated with 300 R cobalt whole body irradiation or retained as nonirradiated controls. Seminiferous tubules from both control and irradiated testes were analyzed between 6 and 15 days after irradiation. At each interval, labeled radioresistant type A5 spermatogonia were found in the epithelium. These had preferentially incorporated label during stages It was concluded the irradia- tion were in active cell cycle and initiated repair of the depleted epithelium. Moreover, the labeling pattern of these radioresistant type A5 cells was identical to that of the long cycling A5 spermato- gonia found in normal testes. While their precise behavior is still incompletely charted, these long cycling A5 spermatogonial cells play a fundamental role in assuring the perpetuation of the germ cell line in both normal and irradiated rats.