Interstitial Cell Tumours of the Mouse Testis: Studies of Tumorigenesis, Dependency and Hormone Production

2008 ◽  
pp. 216-230
Author(s):  
Robert A. Huseby
Keyword(s):  
Interstitial Cell ◽  
Mouse Testis ◽  
Hormone Production

MASCULINIZING EFFECTS OF A TESTICULAR INTERSTITIAL CELL TUMOUR GRAFT ON FEMALE RATS

1973 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-361
Author(s):  
NATALIE POURREAU-SCHNEIDER
Keyword(s):  
Interstitial Cell ◽  
Mating Behaviour ◽  
Reproductive Function ◽  
Cell Tumour ◽  
Female Rats ◽  
Surgical Removal ◽  
Follicular Atresia ◽  
Hormone Production ◽  
Target Organs ◽  
Palpable Nodule

SUMMARY An androgen-producing testicular interstitial cell tumour of rats was grafted into intact and spayed female rats. The tumour inhibited luteinization, produced follicular atresia, stimulated the uterine myometrium and endometrium, and caused vaginal mucus formation. Anoestrus set in and mating behaviour disappeared, rendering gestation impossible. After surgical removal of the tumour, the masculinization disappeared rapidly. With the return of vaginal oestrus (sometimes only 4 days after removal of the tumour) most of the rats mated and gave birth to normal young. When a palpable nodule reappeared, the reproductive function was again lost. The tumour produced similar changes in the target organs of spayed females. The inhibitory action of the endocrine tumour on pituitary gonadotrophic hormone production was shown by the absence of castration cells in the pituitary of the tumour-bearing spayed female.

Adrenocorticotropin Production by a Mammary Carcinoma

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 462-463
Author(s):  
K.S. McCarty ◽  
N.R. Wallace ◽  
W. Litaker ◽  
S. Wells ◽  
G. Eisenbarth
Keyword(s):  
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone ◽  
Small Cell ◽  
Hormone Production ◽  
Carcinoma Of The Breast ◽  
Ectopic Acth ◽  
Ultrastructural Studies ◽  
Subcutaneous Metastases ◽  
Ectopic Acth Production ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pituitary Carcinomas

The production of adrenocorticotropic hormone by non-pituitary carcinomas has been documented in several tumors, most frequently small cell carcinoma of the lung, islet cell carcinomas of the pancreas, thymomas and carcinoids. Electron microscopy of these tumors reveals typical membrane-limited "neurosecretory" granules. Confirmation of the granules as adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) requires the use of OsO4 as a primary fixative to give the characteristic cored granule appearance in conjunction with immunohistochemical demonstration of the hormone peptide. Because of the rarity of ectopic ACTH production by mammary carcinomas and the absence of appropriate ultrastructural studies in the two examples of such ectopic hormone production in the literature of which we are aware (1,2), we present biochemical and ultrastructural data from a carcinoma of the breast with apparent ACTH production.The patient had her primary tumor in the right breast in 1969. The tumor recurred as visceral and subcutaneous metastases in 1976 and again in 1977.

Binucleate Spermiogenesis in the Mouse

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 112-113
Author(s):  
John J. Wolosewick
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Phosphate Buffer ◽  
Seminiferous Epithelium ◽  
Mouse Testis ◽  
Germinal Epithelium ◽  
Intercellular Bridges ◽  
Adult Mice ◽  
Cervical Dislocation ◽  
Human And Mouse

Classically, the male germinal epithelium is depicted as synchronously developing uninucleate spermatids conjoined by intercellular bridges. Recently, binucleate and multinucleate spermatids from human and mouse testis have been reported. The present paper describes certain developmental events in one type of binucleate spermatid in the seminiferous epithelium of the mouse.Testes of adult mice (ABP Jax) were removed from the animals after cervical dislocation and placed into 2.5% glutaraldehyde/Millonig's phosphate buffer (pH 7.2). Testicular capsules were gently split and separated, exposing the tubules. After 15 minutes the tissue was carefully cut into cubes (approx. 1mm), fixed for an additional 45 minutes and processed for electron microscopy.

LACK OF AROMATISATION OF CIRCULATING DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE AND DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULPHATE IN AMENORRHOEIC WOMEN STIMULATED WITH HUMAN GONADOTROPHINS

1965 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mancuso ◽  
Francesca P. Mancuso ◽  
K.-G. Tillinger ◽  
E. Diczfalusy
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Ovarian Stimulation ◽  
Interstitial Cell ◽  
Follicular Phase ◽  
Radioactive Material ◽  
Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulphate ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Human Menopausal Gonadotrophin ◽  
Urine Specimens ◽  
Stimulating Hormone

ABSTRACT Two amenorrhoeic women were given a course of 10 injections of human menopausal gonadotrophin (HMG) in daily doses corresponding to 260 IU of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) activity and 165 IU of interstitial cell stimulating hormone (ICSH) activity. In both patients an extensive ovarian stimulation was observed as indicated by the greatly increased urinary excretion of oestrone, 17β-oestradiol and oestriol. When HMG-treatment was followed subsequently by the administration of human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) for 5 days in a total dose of 18 000 and 30 000 IU, respectively, functional corpus luteum tissue was formed in both patients as evidenced by a huge rise in urinary pregnane-3α,20α-diol excretion and by the secretory transformation of a previously atrophic endometrium. At the approximate height of the follicular phase tracer doses of 3H-labelled dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHAS) and 14C-labelled dehydroepiandrosterone (DHA) were administered to both patients in the form of a continuous intravenous infusion of 10 hours' duration. Infusion of the same dose was repeated under identical experimental conditions at the approximate height of the luteal phase. In both patients, very little radioactive material was associated with oestrone and 17β-oestradiol and none with oestriol isolated from 96-hours' urine specimens obtained at both phases of ovarian stimulation. It is concluded that — in contradistinction to the situation in pregnant women — circulating DHAS is not a significant precursor of urinary oestrogens in non-pregnant women.

"STEROID-CELL" ANTIBODY IN ENDOCRINE DISEASES

1974 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 729-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kamp ◽  
Per Platz ◽  
Jørn Nerup
Keyword(s):  
Leydig Cells ◽  
Addison’S Disease ◽  
Addison's Disease ◽  
Hormone Production ◽  
Cortical Cells ◽  
Endocrine Diseases ◽  
Cell Antibody ◽  
Indirect Immunofluorescence Technique ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Adrenal Cortical Cells

ABSTRACT By means of an indirect immunofluorescence technique, sera from 116 patients with Addison's disease, an equal number of age and sex matched controls and 97 patients with other endocrine diseases were examined for the occurrence of antibody to steroid-producing cells in ovary, testis and adrenal cortex. Fluorescent staining was observed in the theca cells of growing follicles, the theca lutein cells, testicular Leydig cells and adrenal cortical cells, i. e. cells which contain enzyme systems used in steroid hormone production. The "steroid-cell" antibody was present in 24 % of the patients with idiopathic Addison's disease, equally frequent in males and females, and in 17 % of the patients with tuberculous Addison's disease, but was rarely found in controls, including patients with other endocrine diseases. Female hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism made an exception, since the "steroid-cell" antibody was found in about half the cases with this condition.

Therapeutic doses of phosphoramide mustard cause germ cell death in the prepubertal mouse testis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan Rice ◽  
Ellie Smart ◽  
Federica Lopes ◽  
Rod Mitchell ◽  
Norah Spears
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Germ Cell ◽  
Mouse Testis ◽  
Phosphoramide Mustard ◽  
Therapeutic Doses

Mechanoregulation of Aortic Valvular Interstitial Cell Life and Death

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather A. Cirka ◽  
Mehmet H. Kural ◽  
Kristen L. Billiar
Keyword(s):  
Interstitial Cell ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Cell Life
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