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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Reproduction and Fertility Année : 1986

Stimulation of rat sertoli cell secretory activity in vitro by germ cells and residual bodies

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The direct influence of germ cells and residual bodies on Sertoli cell basal and FSH-stimulated secretion of androgen-binding protein (ABP) was studied using Sertoli cells, recovered from 20-day-old rats, cultured alone or cocultured with a crude germ cell preparation from adult rats or with pachytene spermatocytes, round spermatids or populations of residual bodies enriched by centrifugal elutriation. The effect of a rat liver epithelial cell line (LEC) on Sertoli cell function was also tested. Addition of a crude germ cell preparation increased basal and FSH-stimulated ABP secretion. Pachytene spermatocytes and residual bodies adhered to the Sertoli cell monolayer to a much greater extent than did round spermatids. Addition of pachytene spermatocytes markedly enhanced basal and FSH-stimulated ABP secretion over 12 days of culture. Round spermatids and residual bodies stimulated ABP secretion although to a lesser extent than did spermatocytes. Furthermore, the increase of FSH-stimulated ABP levels was not maintained after 4 or 8 days of culture. LEC also enhanced basal and FSH-induced ABP levels but the increase of FSH-induced ABP production was only observed until Day 8 of culture. The influence of LEC on Sertoli cell secretion could be mediated through the production of an extracellular matrix. It is concluded that germ cells, particularly pachytene spermatocytes, can directly stimulate Sertoli cell secretory activity in vitro.
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B. Le Magueresse, Florence Le Gac, Maurice Loir, B. Jégou. Stimulation of rat sertoli cell secretory activity in vitro by germ cells and residual bodies. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, 1986, 77, pp.489-498. ⟨10.1530/jrf.0.0770489⟩. ⟨hal-02728624⟩
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