scholarly journals Three-dimensional analysis of seminiferous tubules and spermatogenic waves in mice

Reproduction ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 154 (5) ◽  
pp. 569-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroki Nakata ◽  
Takahiro Sonomura ◽  
Shoichi Iseki
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
3D Structure ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Rete Testis ◽  
Seminiferous Tubules ◽  
Periodic Acid Schiff ◽  
Adult Mice ◽  
Branching Points

The aim of the present study was to reconstruct seminiferous tubules and analyze spermatogenic waves in seminiferous epithelia in developing and adult mice using serial paraffin sections and high-performance three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction software. By labeling the basement membrane of seminiferous tubules with fluorescent immunohistochemistry or periodic acid-Schiff-hematoxylin staining, all seminiferous tubules were reconstructed in 9 testes from 9 different mice, 3 each at 0, 21 and 90 days (adult) postpartum. The 3D structure of seminiferous tubules, including the number and length of tubules as well as the number of connections with the rete testis, branching points and blind ends, was assessed accurately. Although tubules showed marked variations among individual mice, their overall structure was regular and retained from newborn to adult mice. Some seminiferous tubules contained inner portions running distant from the testis surface. In a representative testis at 21 days, the sites at which spermatids initially occurred were examined by labeling acrosomes and were found to be preferentially distributed in the upper and medial portions of the testis close to the rete testis. In a representative adult testis, 76 complete waves with an average length of 16.9 mm were found and their directions were analyzed. The methods used in the present study will be useful for investigating the structure and function of seminiferous tubules in mice and humans under normal and pathological conditions, such as infertility.

scholarly journals Three-dimensional morphological analysis of spermatogenesis in aged mouse testes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taito Nakano ◽  
Hiroki Nakata ◽  
Suguru Kadomoto ◽  
Hiroaki Iwamoto ◽  
Hiroshi Yaegashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Rete Testis ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Seminiferous Tubules ◽  
Aged Mouse ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Branching Points

AbstractSpermatogenesis, which is a continuous process from undifferentiated spermatogonia to spermatozoa in the seminiferous tubules, declines with age. To investigate changes in spermatogenesis with aging, we reconstructed the seminiferous tubules of 12 mice aged 12 to 30 months from serial sections and examined age-related and region-specific alterations in the seminiferous epithelium and spermatogenic waves in three dimensions. The basic structure of the seminiferous tubules, including the numbers of tubules, terminating points, branching points, and total tubule length, did not change with age. Age-related alterations in spermatogenesis, primarily assessed by the formation of vacuoles in Sertoli cells, were detected in the seminiferous tubules at 12 months. The proportion of altered tubule segments with impaired spermatogenesis further increased by 24 months, but remained unchanged thereafter. Altered tubule segments were preferentially distributed in tubule areas close to the rete testis and those in the center of the testis. Spermatogenic waves became shorter in length with age. These results provide a basis for examining the decline of spermatogenesis not only with aging, but also in male infertility.

scholarly journals Morfologi Kelenjar Aksesori Kelamin Jantan pada Trenggiling (Manis javanica) (MORPHOLOGY OF THE MALE SEX ACCESSORY GLANDS OF THE PANGOLIN (MANIS JAVANICA))

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Yusrizal Akmal ◽  
Chairun Nisa ◽  
Savitri Novelina
Keyword(s):  
Average Length ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
Acinar Cells ◽  
Accessory Gland ◽  
Periodic Acid Schiff ◽  
Accessory Glands ◽  
Low Concentrations ◽  
Manis Javanica ◽  
Macroscopic Observation ◽  
Male Sex

The study aims to reveal the morphology of the male sex accessory glands of the pangolin at macroscopic and microscopic levels. Macroscopic observation included measurement of length and thickness of each accessory gland while microscopic observation, sample of each accessory gland was processed by histology technique with paraffin method and sliced with 3-5 ?m thickness and stained with hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining for general structural observation, coloration of alcian blue (AB) pH 2.5 and periodic acid Schiff (PAS) to observe the distribution of acid and neutral mucopolysaccharides in each glands. The results showed that the male sex accessory glands of the pangolin consist of vesicular gland and prostate, and bulbourethral gland which were not observed macroscopically. The average length and thickness of vesicular gland were 1.07 cm and 0.41 cm, while the prostate was 1.17 cm and 0.54 cm respectively. All accessory glands were lobulated and separated with a thick connective tissue into lobes and lobules. Acinar cells in the vesicular glands were a serous type, whereas acinar cells in the prostate and bulbourethral gland were the mucous types. Secretion of vesicular gland contains neutral mucopolysaccharide with low concentrations and prostate containing neutral mucopolysaccharide with moderate conJurnal Veteriner Maret 2019 Vol. 20 No. 1 : 38 - 47 pISSN: 1411-8327; eISSN: 2477-5665 DOI: 10.19087/jveteriner.2019.20.1.38 Terakreditasi Nasional, Dirjen Penguatan Riset dan Pengembangan, online pada http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/jvet Kemenristek Dikti RI S.K. No. 36a/E/KPT/201639 centrations, and did not secrete acid mucopolysaccharide. Secretion of bulbourethral glands contains neutral and acidic mucopolysaccharide with strong concentrations. Macroscopically the bulbourethral gland is not observed but has a high carbohydrate which acts as to produce of cement plasma and rinsing urethra from urine.   

Three-Dimensional Graphite Filled Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride) Composites with Enhanced Strength and Thermal Conductivity

2020 ◽  
Vol 842 ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Jian Zheng ◽  
Yong Qiang Du ◽  
Chun Ming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Energetic Materials ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Vinylidene Fluoride ◽  
3D Structure ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
3D Network ◽  
Poly Vinylidene Fluoride ◽  
Polymer Bonded Explosives

Three-dimensional (3D) network structure has been recognized as an efficient approach to enhance the mechanical and thermal conductive properties of polymeric composites. However, it has not been applied in energetic materials. In this work, a fluoropolymer based composite with vertically oriented and interconnected 3D graphite network was fabricated for polymer bonded explosives (PBXs). Here, the graphite and graphene oxide platelets were mixed, and self-assembled via rapid freezing and using crystallized ice as the template. The 3D structure was finally obtained by freezing-dry, and infiltrating with polymer. With the increasing of filler fraction and cooling rate, the thermal conductivity of the polymer composite was significantly improved to 2.15 W m-1 K-1 by 919% than that of pure polymer. Moreover, the mechanical properties, such as tensile strength and elastic modulus, were enhanced by 117% and 563%, respectively, when the highly ordered structure was embedded in the polymer. We attribute the increased thermal and mechanical properties to this 3D network, which is beneficial to the effective heat conduction and force transfer. This study supports a desirable way to fabricate the strong and thermal conductive fluoropolymer composites used for the high-performance polymer bonded explosives (PBXs).

scholarly journals Amino Acids Sequence Based in Silico Analysis of RuBisCO (Ribulose-1,5 Bisphosphate Carboxylase Oxygenase) Proteins in Some Carthamus L. ssp.

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emre SEVİNDİK
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Average Length ◽  
3D Structure ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
In Silico Analysis ◽  
Bisphosphate Carboxylase ◽  
Molecular Weights ◽  
Acid Ratio ◽  
Important Enzyme

RuBisCO is an important enzyme for plants to photosynthesize and balance carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This study aimed to perform sequence, physicochemical, phylogenetic and 3D (three-dimensional) comparative analyses of RuBisCO proteins in the Carthamus ssp. using various bioinformatics tools. The sequence lengths of the RuBisCO proteins were between 166 and 477 amino acids, with an average length of 411.8 amino acids. Their molecular weights (Mw) ranged from 18711.47 to 52843.09 Da; the most acidic and basic protein sequences were detected in C. tinctorius (pI = 5.99) and in C. tenuis (pI = 6.92), respectively. The extinction coefficients of RuBisCO proteins at 280 nm ranged from 17,670 to 69,830 M-1 cm-1, the instability index (II) values for RuBisCO proteins ranged from 33.31 to 39.39, while the GRAVY values of RuBisCO proteins ranged from -0.313 to -0.250. The most abundant amino acid in the RuBisCO protein was Gly (9.7%), while the least amino acid ratio was Trp (1.6 %). The putative phosphorylation sites of RuBisCO proteins were determined by NetPhos 2.0. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that RuBisCO proteins formed two main clades. A RAMPAGE analysis revealed that 96.3%-97.6% of residues were located in the favoured region of RuBisCO proteins. To predict the three dimensional (3D) structure of the RuBisCO proteins PyMOL was used. The results of the current study provide insights into fundamental characteristic of RuBisCO proteins in Carthamus ssp.

scholarly journals Structural Knowledge Transfer of Panoptic Kidney Segmentation to Other Stains, Organs, and Species

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon G Ginley ◽  
Kuang-Yu Jen ◽  
Pinaki Sarder
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
Renal Tubules ◽  
Arterial Tree ◽  
Structural Morphology ◽  
Periodic Acid Schiff ◽  
Group Type ◽  
Feature Pyramid ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Computational Pathology

Panoptic segmentation networks are a newer class of image segmentation algorithms that are constrained to understand the difference between instance-type objects (objects that are discrete countable entities, such as renal tubules) and group-type objects (uncountable, amorphous regions of texture such as renal interstitium). This class of deep networks has unique advantages for biological datasets, particularly in computational pathology. We collected 126 periodic acid Schiff whole slide images of native diabetic nephropathy, lupus nephritis, and transplant surveillance kidney biopsies, and fully annotated them for the following micro-compartments: interstitium, glomeruli, globally sclerotic glomeruli, tubules, and arterial tree (arteries/arterioles). Using this data, we trained a panoptic feature pyramid network. We compared performance of the network against a renal pathologist's annotations, and the method's transferability to other computational pathology domain tasks was investigated. The panoptic feature pyramid networks showed high performance as compared to renal pathologist for all of the annotated classes in a testing set of transplant kidney biopsies. The network was not only able to generalize its object understanding across different stains and species of kidney data, but also across several organ types. We conclude panoptic networks have unique advantages for computational pathology; namely, these networks internally model structural morphology, which aids bootstrapping of annotations for new computational pathology tasks.

Acute Exposure to the Neonicotinoid Insecticide Imidacloprid of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Gonads: A Histopathological Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Cansu Akbulut
Keyword(s):  
Interstitial Fibrosis ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
Testicular Tissue ◽  
Seminiferous Tubules ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Periodic Acid Schiff ◽  
Histological Techniques ◽  
Zona Radiata ◽  
Structural Deterioration ◽  
Neonicotinoid Insecticide

Neonicotinoids are the new class of insecticides that are high target specificity to insects. Imidacloprid is a neonicotinoid that is the most widely used insecticide in the world. As a result of its widespread use in agriculture, imidacloprid interferes with the aquatic system and threatens the aquatic environment. In this study, an investigation of the histopathological effects of imidacloprid on zebrafish gonads was aimed. Zebrafish were exposed to 9.5 mg/L, 19 mg/L, and 38 mg/L of imidacloprid for 5 days, considering the 96 h LC50 value. After dissecting the gonadal tissues, routine histological techniques were applied, and the tissues were stained with Periodic Acid-Schiff (PAS), Toluidine Blue (TB), and Haematoxylin and Eosin (H&E). Sections were examined under a light microscope. While normal gonad histology was observed in the control group, histopathological alternations such as degeneration and union in the seminiferous tubules, hypertrophy in spermatogenic and Leydig cells, and interstitial fibrosis were detected in testicular tissue of the experimental groups. In the ovarian tissues of the experimental groups, structural deterioration in oocytes, autolysis, increase in the number of atretic oocytes, vacuolization in cortical alveoli, thickening and curling in the zona radiata, and opening in the perifollicular layers were detected.

Evaluation of co-cultured spermatogonial stem cells encapsulated in alginate hydrogel with Sertoli cells and their transplantation into azoospermic mice

Zygote ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mohammad Veisi ◽  
Kamran Mansouri ◽  
Vahideh Assadollahi ◽  
Cyrus Jalili ◽  
Afshin Pirnia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sertoli Cells ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
3D Culture ◽  
Alginate Hydrogel ◽  
Periodic Acid Schiff ◽  
Expression Levels ◽  
Pas Staining

Summary An in vitro spermatogonial stem cell (SSC) culture can serve as an effective technique to study spermatogenesis and treatment for male infertility. In this research, we compared the effect of a three-dimensional alginate hydrogel with Sertoli cells in a 3D culture and co-cultured Sertoli cells. After harvest of SSCs from neonatal mice testes, the SSCs were divided into two groups: SSCs on a 3D alginate hydrogel with Sertoli cells and a co-culture of SSCs with Sertoli cells for 1 month. The samples were evaluated by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) assays and bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) tracing, haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) and periodic acid–Schiff (PAS) staining after transplantation into an azoospermic testis mouse. The 3D group showed rapid cell proliferation and numerous colonies compared with the co-culture group. Molecular assessment showed significantly increased integrin alpha-6, integrin beta-1, Nanog, Plzf, Thy-1, Oct4 and Bcl2 expression levels in the 3D group and decreased expression levels of P53, Fas, and Bax. BrdU tracing, and H&E and PAS staining results indicated that the hydrogel alginate improved spermatogenesis after transplantation in vivo. This finding suggested that cultivation of SSCs on alginate hydrogel with Sertoli cells in a 3D culture can lead to efficient proliferation and maintenance of SSC stemness and enhance the efficiency of SSC transplantation.

scholarly journals Granulomatous Epididymitis Related to Rhodotorula glutinis Infection in a Dog

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 716-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kadota ◽  
K. Uchida ◽  
T. Nagatomo ◽  
Y. Goto ◽  
T. Shinjo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Connective Tissue ◽  
Sertoli Cells ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
Rhodotorula Glutinis ◽  
Seminiferous Tubules ◽  
Spermatogenic Cells ◽  
Cell Debris ◽  
Periodic Acid Schiff ◽  
Microbiological Characteristics ◽  
Cut Surface

A 4-year-old, male Great Dane dog developed severe swelling of the scrotum on 9 December 1991, and the testes and epididymides were removed surgically on 12 December 1992. The cut surface of the epididymides consisted of hard connective tissue and several small abcesses with slight hemorrhage. Histopathologically, the seminiferous tubules in the testes had only a few spermatogenic cells, but Sertoli cells were well preserved. Both epididymides consisted entirely of a proliferation of fibrous connective tissue, and only a few ducts deferens containing cell debris, neutrophils, and macrophages in the lumina were present. In all lesions of the epididymides, the macrophages contained periodic acid–Schiff– and Grocott's silver–positive round granules, 5-8 μm in diameter. Microbiologically, smooth salmon-pink colonies consisting of ovoidal yeast, about 10 μm in diameter, were isolated from the samples of epididymides but not from those of the testes. The isolated yeast had microbiological characteristics of Rhodotorula glutinis. From these observations, we diagnosed the present case as granulomatous epididymitis due to Rhodotorula infection.

Three-dimensional hierarchical pompon-like Co3O4 porous spheres for high-performance lithium-ion batteries

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (34) ◽  
pp. 13801-13804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjun Hao ◽  
Shimou Chen ◽  
Yingjun Cai ◽  
Lan Zhang ◽  
Zengxi Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lithium Ion Batteries ◽  
Lithium Ion Battery ◽  
Hydrothermal Method ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
High Performance ◽  
3D Structure ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Lithium Ion ◽  
Simple Hydrothermal Method ◽  
Porous Spheres

3D hierarchical pompon-like Co3O4 porous spheres were produced by a simple hydrothermal method. The 3D structure is composed of many nanowires which gathered as a ring in the centre and fanned out via a special self-assembly fashion, resulting in good lithium ion battery performance.

scholarly journals Antioxidant and cytoprotective effects of Nigella sativa L. seeds on the testis of monosodium glutamate challenged rats

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Abd-Elkareem ◽  
Mokhless A. M. Abd El-Rahman ◽  
Nasser S. Abou Khalil ◽  
Ayman S. Amer
Keyword(s):  
Nigella Sativa ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
Monosodium Glutamate ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Lipid Peroxides ◽  
Basement Membranes ◽  
Seminiferous Tubules ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Albino Rats ◽  
Periodic Acid Schiff

AbstractMonosodium glutamate (MSG) is one of the most widely spread food additives that might cause male infertility. However, Nigellasativa L. seeds (NSS) could provide a solution. This study was designed to investigate the potential effects of NSS on rats ingesting MSG. To achieve this aim, adult male albino rats were randomly equally assigned into three groups for 21 days: control group received no treatment, MSG group received MSG as 30 g/kg feed, and MSG + NSS group received MSG as 30 g/kg and NSS as 30 g/kg feed. Testis histomorphometry showed marked deterioration by MSG as atrophic seminiferous tubules with degeneration of their lining cells, damaged Leydig cells and decreased germ cells number. Periodic Acid Schiff stain indicated irregular interrupted basement membranes. Glutathione reductase, superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2), and caspase-3 immuno-expressions increased in testicular cells. Testosterone levels were significantly decreased in MSG challenged rats along with significant increase in luteinizing hormone levels, whereas NSS normalized this hormonal profile. MSG exposure also caused significantly increased lipid peroxides (LPO), glutathione-S-transferase, and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) whereas nitric oxide and SOD2 were significantly decreased. NSS succeeded in rebalance LPO and TAC and ameliorated the histoarchitectural disturbances. NSS mitigated MSG-induced testicular impairment by its antioxidant and cytoprotective activities.

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