Active immunization of boars against gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) inhibits luteinizing hormone (LH) and testicular steroids, so that mitosis of spermatogonia is reduced and apoptosis increased. To clarify whether high amounts of estrogens which are synthesized in the boar testis support spermatogenesis, a group of 6 boars was immunized against GnRH and then infused for 7 weeks with est...

The aim of this study was to examine the controversial effects of experimental unilateral cryptorchidism and subsequent orchiopexy on the number of germ cells and other morphometric characteristics of testicular and epididymal structures in adult rabbits. Unilateral cryptorchidism was induced in 11 mature male New Zealand white rabbits by returning one testis, together with the ipsilateral epid...

The effect of FSH on the development of the testis in the ram lamb was examined in two experiments where lambs were passively immunized against ovine beta-FSH from birth until 100 or 160 d. In both experiments, immunization resulted in a slower testicular growth relative to that of controls. This effect became apparent at around the start of the period of rapid testicular growth (60-70 d of age...

Background Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), have been suggested as a potential choice for treatment of male infertility. Yet, the effects of MSCs on regeneration of germinal epithelium of seminiferous tubules and recovery of spermatogenesis have remained controversial. In this research, we have evaluated and compared the fate of autologous bone marrow (BM)-MSCs during three different periods of t...

The present study was designed to see the effects of parenterally administered drugs cimetidine and bromocriptine affecting serum prolactin upon the fertility of adult male albino rats. Ninety adult young male albino rats between the ages of 60 to 120 days were selected. The animals were divided into three groups. Cimetidine was administered in a dose of 200 mg/kg body weight to group B intramu...

Gonadal differentiation is tightly regulated by the initial sex determining gene and the downstream sex-related genes in vertebrates. However, sex change in fish can alter the sexual fate from one sex to the other. Chemical-induced maleness in the protogynous orange-spotted grouper is transient, and a reversible sex change occurs after the chemical treatment is withdrawn. We used these characte...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to identify and characterize repopulating spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) in the adult human testes. METHODS Testes biopsies from obstructive azoospermic patients and normal segments of human testicular tissue were used. Flow cytometry, real-time PCR and immunohistochemical analysis were performed. Purified human spermatogonia were transplanted into busulf...

BACKGROUND New research proposes the pluripotency of spermatogonial cells obtained from testis. These spermatogonia-derived stem cells are called embryonic stem-like cells that express embryonic stem cell markers and differentiate to the three germ layers. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to generate embryonic stem-like cells from neonatal mouse testis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The ...

The mediation of fluid homeostasis by multiple classes of aquaporins has been suggested to be essential during spermatogenesis and spermiation. In the marine teleost gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata), seven distinct aquaporins, Aqp0a, -1aa, -1ab, -7, -8b, -9b and -10b, are differentially expressed in the somatic and germ cell lineages of the spermiating testis, but the endocrine regulation of t...

background: the present study was designed to evaluate the survival and proliferation of spermatogonial stem cells from cryptorchid mouse testis in co-culture system over a 3 weeks period. materials and methods: sertoli and spermatogonial cells were isolated from bilateral cryptorchid mouse model testes. isolated spermatogonial cells were co-cultured with sertoli cells in minimal essential medi...