The regulation of early fetal germ cell growth has not been studied in cell culture, probably due to the poor survival of these cells. However, cell culture is the only system in which the control of cell growth can be studied independently of the influence of secreted testicular factors, which are diluted in the medium. We successfully cultured dispersed testicular cells from 16.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study was undertaken to determine the extent of apoptosis and mitosis in the various testicular cell types throughout rat development from foetal day 14.5 to postnatal days 9-10. Apoptotic activity was studied by detecting DNA fragmentation (TUNEL method) in situ.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRetinoids have pleiotropic effects on embryonic development and are essential for spermatogenesis in the adult, where they act via nuclear retinoid receptors: retinoic acid receptors (RARs) and retinoid X receptors (RXRs). We used immunohistochemistry to examine the cellular localization of RARs and RXRs in the rat testis from Day 13.5 postconception (13.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransforming growth factors beta1 and beta2 (TGFbetas) have recently been detected by immunohistochemistry in the fetal and neonatal rat testis, and the aim of the present study was to determine whether these factors can act as local regulators to control the number of gonocytes. Testes were kept in organ culture, and TGFbeta1 was found to have dose-dependent inhibitory effect on the number of gonocytes in testes explanted on fetal day 13.5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (Paris)
March 1979
The authors have seen three cancers out of 27 organic ovarian tumours which were diagnosed and operated on during pregnancy and the puerperium in 16790 deliveries. They recall the circumstances under which the condition was discovered and the difficulties in diagnosing it. They point out particularly the value of ultrasound and frozen section histological examination.
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