Increased sperm production in adult rats after transient neonatal hypothyroidism

Endocrinology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 244-248

  Cooke, Paul S ^a   Hess, Rex A ^a   Porcelli, John ^a   Meisami, Esmail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPYLTHIOURACIL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILITY; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RATS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TESTIS;

EID: 0025916432     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-129-1-244     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Awoniyi CA, Sprando RL, Santulli R, Chandrashekar V, Ewing LL, Zirkin BR 1990 Restoration of spermatogenesis by exogenously administered testosterone in rats made azoospermic by hypophysectomy or withdrawal of luteinizing hormone alone. Endocrinology 127:177-184
2. Bellve AR, Zheng W 1989 Growth factors as autocrine and paracrine modulators of male gonadal functions. J Reprod Fertil 85:771-793
3. Heindel JJ, Treinen KA 1989 Physiology of the male reproductive system: Endocrine, paracrine and autocrine regulation. Toxicol Pathol 17:411-445
4. Kosco MS, Bolt DJ, Wheaton JE, Loseth KJ, Crabo BG 1987 Endocrine responses in relation to compensatory testicular growth after neonatal hemicastration in boars. Biol Reprod 36:1177-1185
5. Cunningham GR, Tindali DJ, Huckins C, Means AR 1978 Mechanisms for the testicular hypertrophy which follows hemicastration. Endocrinology 102:16-23
6. Frankel AI, Wright WW 1982 The hemicastrated rat: Definition of a model for the study of the regulation of testicular steroidogenesis. J Endocrinol 92:213-223
7. Cooke PS, Meisami E 1991 Early hypothyroidism in rats causes increased adult testis and reproductive organ size but does not change testosterone levels. Endocrinology 129:237-243
8. Meisami E, Najafi A, Pfeifer J, Timiras PS 1986 Marked growth hyperplasia and hypertrophy in testis during recovery from postnatal hypothyroid retardation. Fed Proc 45:177
9. Robb GW, Amann RP, Kilian GJ 1978 Daily sperm production and epididymal sperm reserves of pubertal and adult rats. J Reprod Fertil 54:103-107
10. Amann RP, Lambíase Jr JT 1969 The male rabbit. III. Determination of daily sperm production by means of testicular homogenates. J Anim Sci 28:369-374
11. Clermont Y, Harvey SC 1965 Duration of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium of normal, hypophysectomized and hypophysectomized-hormone-treated albino rats. Endocrinology 76:80-89
12. Amann RP, Johnson L, Thompson DL, Pickett BW 1976 Daily spermatozoal production, epididymal spermtozoal reserves and transit time of spermatozoa through the epididymis of the rhesus monkey. Biol Reprod 15:586-592
13. Linder RE, Strader LF, McElroy WK 1986 Measurement of epididymal sperm motility as a test variable in the rat. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 36:317-324
14. Winer BJ 1971 Statistical Principles in Experimental Design, ed 2. McGraw Hill, New York
15. Stoline MR 1981. The status of multiple comparisons: Simultaneous estimation of all pairwise comparisons in one-way ANOVA designs. Am Statistician 35:134-141
16. Chowdury AR, Gautam AK, Chatterjee BB 1984 Thyroid-testis interrelationship during the development and sexual maturity of the rat. Arch Androl 13:233-239
17. Chowdury AR, Arora U 1984 Role of thyroid in testicular development of immature rat. Arch Androl 12:49-51
18. Maqsood M 1950 Thyroid functions in relation to reproduction of mammals and birds. Biol Rev 27:281-319
19. Johnson L, Neaves WB 1983 Enhanced daily sperm production in the remaining testis of aged rats following hemicastration. J Androl 4:162-166
20. Chandrasekhar Y, Holland MK, D’Occhio MJ, Setchell BP 1985 Spermatogenesis, seminal characteristics and reproductive hormone levels in mature rams with induced hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. J Endocrinol 105:39-46
21. Schanbacher BD, Pelletier J, Hocherrau-de Reviers MT 1987 Follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone and testicular Leydig cell responses to estradiol immunization in Ile-de-France rams. J Androl 8:97-102
22. Monet-Kunz C, Hochereau-de Reviers MT, Pisselet C, Perreau C, Fontaine I, Schanbacher BD 1988 Endocrine parameters, hormone receptors and functions of the testicular interstitium and seminiferous epithelium in estradiol-immunized Ile-de-France rams. J Androl 9:278-283
23. Berndtson WE, Thompson TL 1990 Changing relationships between testis size, Sertoli cell number and spermatogenesis in Sprague-Dawley rats. J Androl 11:429-435
24. Palmero S, de Marchis M, Gallo G, Fugassa E 1989 Thyroid hormone affects the development of Sertoli cell function in the rat. J Endocrinol 123:105-111
25. Palmero S, Prati M, Barreca A, Minuto F, Giordano G, Fugassa E 1990 Thyroid hormone stimulates the production of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) by immature rat Sertoli cells. Mol Cell Endocrinol 68:61-65
26. Jannini EA, Olivieri M, Francavilla S, Gulino A, Ziparo E, D’Armiento M 1990 Ontogenesis of the nuclear 3, 5, 3-triiodothyronine receptor in the rat testis. Endocrinology 126:2521-2526
27. Amin SO, El-Sheikh AS 1977 Pituitary-testicular function in hypothyroid male rats. Acta Anat (Basel) 98:121-129
28. Weiss SR, Burns JM 1988 The effect of acute treatment with two goitrogens on plasma thyroid hormones, testosterone and testicular morphology in adult male rats. Comp Biochem Physiol 90:449-452
29. Vilchez-Martinez JA 1973 Study of the pituitary-testicular axis in hypothyroid adult male rats. J Reprod Fertil 35:123-126