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ArticleDevelopment & reproduction2021

Blood-Testis Barrier and Sperm Delayed in the Cauda Epididymis of the Reproductively Regressed Syrian Hamsters.

Geon Hyung Jeon, Sung-Ho Lee, Yong-Pil Cheon, Donchan Choi

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Article in Development & reproduction, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Geon Hyung JeonDept. of Life Science, College of Public Health and Welfare Sciences, Yong-In University, Yongin 17092, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6267-1537
Sung-Ho LeeDept. of Biotechnology, Sangmyung University, Seoul 03016, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2866-3642
Yong-Pil CheonDivision of Developmental Biology and Physiology, Dept. of Biotechnology, Sungshin University, Seoul 02844, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8497-9257
Donchan ChoiDept. of Life Science, College of Public Health and Welfare Sciences, Yong-In University, Yongin 17092, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5170-090X
Yong In University · KRSangmyung University · KRSungshin Women's University · KR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Syrian (golden) hamsters are seasonal breeders whose reproductive functions are active in summer and inactive in winter. In experimental facility mimicking winter climate, short photoperiod (SP) induces gonadal regression. The blood-testis barrier (BTB) of the sexually involuted animals have been reported to be permeable, allowing developing germ cells to be engulfed or sloughed off the epithelium of the seminiferous tubules. The expressions of genes related to the tight junction composing of BTB were investigated in the reproductive active and inactive testes. Claudin-11, occludin, and junctional adhesion molecule (JAM) were definitely expressed in the active testes but not discernably detected in the inactive testes. And spermatozoa (sperm) were observed in the whole lengths of epididymides in the active testes. They were witnessed in only cauda region of the epididymides but not in caput and corpus regions in animals with the inactive testes. The results imply that the disorganization of BTB is associated with the testicular regression. The developing germ cells are swallowed into the Sertoli cells or travel into the lumen, as supported by the presence of the sperm delayed in the last region of the epididymis. These outcomes suggest that both apoptosis and desquamation are the processes that eliminate the germ cells during the regressing stage in the Syrian hamsters.

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Blood-testis barrierMale Syrian hamsterPhotoperiodReproductive activity

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