DURATION OF SPERMATOGENESIS IN THE MOUSE AND TIMING OF STAGES OF THE CYCLE OF THE SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM
DURATION OF SPERMATOGENESIS IN THE MOUSE AND TIMING OF STAGES OF THE CYCLE OF THE SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM
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10.1002/aja.1000990307
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发表时间:
1956-01-01
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OAKBERG, EF
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OAKBERG, EF
High radiation sensitivity of late spermatogonial stages indicates that previous estimates of the duration of spermatogenesis represent only three-fourths of the time required for type A spermatogonia to develop into spermatozoa. Male F1 hybrid mice (101 x C3H) were given a partial body exposure to 100 r of x rays when 12 weeks old. Animals were killed 9 hours to 38 days after exposure. Killing of intermediate and type B spermatogonia results in disappearance of resting primary spermatocytes from stage VII tubules by 48 hours, loss of pachytene stages one spermatogenic cycle later, loss of spermatids with completion of two cycles, and loss of spermatozoa after completion of three cycles. Curves were fitted to the rate of disappearance for each cell type, and time intervals between successive 50% points determined. The same procedure was used to estimate the interval between reappearance of spermatids and spermatozoa at 25-38 days. The pooled estimate of cycle length was 207 [plus or minus] 6 hours. As 4 cycles of the seminiferous epithelium occur in the interval required for type A spermatogonia to develop into sperm, the estimate of duration of spermatogenesis is 34 1/2 days. A frequency distribution based on 3000 randomly selected control tubules was used for assigning a time interval to each stage in the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium.