Use of seminiferous tubule segments to study stage specificity of unscheduled dna synthesis in rat spermatogenic cells
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Environmental Mutagenesis
- Vol. 12 (3) , 285-297
- https://doi.org/10.1002/em.2860120303
Abstract
DNA repair in spermatogenic cells at various stages of maturity was determined by quantitation of unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS). Male F‐344 rats were exposed (i.p.) to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS, 35 mg/kg); 1 hr later, segments of seminiferous tubules corresponding to spermatogenesis stages II, IV‐V, VI, VII, VIII, IX‐X, XII, and XIV were isolated with the transillumination pattern of the tubules as a guide. Intact tubule segments were cultured 24 hr in the presence of [3H]thymidine, and UDS was quantitated by autoradiography as net grains/nucleus (NG). In primary spermatocytes from treated rats, NG count increased with increasing maturity from leptotene primary spermatocytes (3.5 NG) up through stage VIII and IX‐X pachytene spermatocytes (22 NG), after which NG decreased in stage‐XII pachytene and diplotene spermatocytes (to 16 NG and 8 NG, respectively). Round spermatids of steps 2‐8 of spermiogenesis all exhibited approximately the same UDS response (8 NG). Elongating spermatids as mature as step 14 underwent UDS after exposure to MMS, but step‐15 and later‐step spermatids did not. The DNA repair response of pachytene spermatocytes cultured within segments of seminiferous tubule corresponding to stages VIII and IX‐X was 4 to 25 times greater, depending on the dose of MMS, man pachytene spermatocytes isolated by enzymatic digestion and cultured in suspension [Bentley and Working, Mutat Res 203:135‐142, 1988]. Thus, the use of segments of seminiferous tubule both increased the sensitivity of UDS as an indicator of DNA damage in rat germ cells and enabled the study of UDS in spermatogenic cells at different stages of maturity.Keywords
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