The influence of testicular and peritoneal macrophages on Leydig cell secretory function in co-culture

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 91-92

  Sawiński, Piotr ^a   Łukaszyk, Andrzej ^a   Balcerek, Małgorzata ^a   Ludwiczak, Helena ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

co culture; Leydig cells; testicular macrophages; testosterone secretion

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0343471977     PISSN: 00155586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Gaytan F, Bellido C, Aguilar E, Van Rooijen N (1994) Requirement for testicular macrophages in Leydig cell proliferation and differentiation during prepubertal development in rats. J Reprod Fertil 102: 393-399
2. Gaytan F, Bellido C, Romero J L, Morales C, Reymundo C (1994) Decreased number and size and the defective function of testicular macrophages in long-term hypophysectomised rats are reversed by treatment with human gonadotropins. J Endocrinol 140: 399-407
3. Hayes R, Chalmers SA, Nikolic-Paterson DJ, Atkins RC, Hedger MP (1996) Secretion of bioactive interleukin 1 by rat testicular macrophages in vitro. J Androl 17: 41-49
4. Kern S, Robertson SA, Mau VJ, Maddocks S (1995) Cytokine secretion by macrophages in the rat testis. Biol Reprod 53: 1407 -1416
5. Lombard-Vignon N, Grizard G, Boucher D (1991) Influence of testicular macrophages on Leydig cell function in vitro. Int J Androl 15: 144-159
6. Sawiński P, Łukaszyk A, Stolzmann WM (1996) An in vivo and in vitro study on the role of macrophages in local regulation of the Leydig cell function in the rat. Folia Histochem Cytobhiol 34, Suppl 1: 81-82
7. Xiong Y, Hales DB (1994) Immune-endocrine interactions in the mouse testis: cytokine-mediated inhibition of Leydig cell steroidogenesis. Endocr J 2: 223-228