Hypobaric hypoxia causes deleterious effects on spermatogenesis in rats

Reproduction

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1031-1038

  Liao, Weigong ^a   Cai, Mingchun ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Huang, Jian ^a   Liu, Fuyu ^a   Jiang, Chunhua ^a   Gao, Yuqi ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TETRAPLOIDY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; APOPTOSIS; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; CELL COUNT; DNA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PLOIDIES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77952593078     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0557     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Adler ID 1996 Comparison of the duration of spermatogenesis between male rodents and humans. Mutation Research 352 169-172.
2. Assinder S, Davis R, Fenwick M & Glover A 2007 Adult-only exposure of male rats to a diet of high phytoestrogen content increases apoptosis of meiotic and post-meiotic germ cells. Reproduction 133 11-19. (Pubitemid 46335539)
3. Blanchard KT, Allard EK & Boekelheide K 1996 Fate of germ cells in 2,5-hexanedione-induced testicular injury. I. Apoptosis is the mechanism of germ cell death. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 137 141-148.
4. Blanco-Rodriguez J & Martinez-Garcia C 1996 Spontaneous germ cell death in the testis of the adult rat takes the form of apoptosis: re-evaluation of cell types that exhibit the ability to die during spermatogenesis. Cell Proliferation 29 13-31. (Pubitemid 26086058)
5. Farias J, Bustos Obregón E, Orellana R, Bucarey J, Quiroz E & Reyes J 2005a Effects of chronic hypobaric hypoxia on testis histology and round spermatid oxidative metabolism. Andrologia 37 47-52. (Pubitemid 40175400)
6. Farias JG, Bustos-Obregon E & Reyes JG 2005b Increase in testicular temperature and vascularization induced by hypobaric hypoxia in rats. Journal of Andrology 26 693-697. (Pubitemid 41476627)
7. Gasco M, Rubio J, Chung A, Villegas L & Gonzales GF 2003 Effect of high altitude exposure on spermatogenesis and epididymal sperm count in male rats. Andrologia 35 368-374. (Pubitemid 38002293)
8. Gonzales GF 2007 Peruvian contributions to the study on human reproduction at high altitude: from the chronicles of the Spanish conquest to the present. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology 158 172-179.
9. Gosney JR 1984 Effects of hypobaric hypoxia on the Leydig cell population of the testis of the rat. Journal of Endocrinology 103 59-62. (Pubitemid 14029044)
10. Hacker-Klom UB, Gohde W, Nieschlag E & Behre HM 1999 DNA flow cytometry of human semen. Human Reproduction 14 2506-2512. (Pubitemid 29473920)
11. Kierszenbaum AL 2001 Apoptosis during spermatogenesis: the thrill of being alive. Molecular Reproduction and Development 58 1-3.
12. Koskinen LO, Collin O & Bergh A 2000 Cigarette smoke and hypoxia induce acute changes in the testicular and cerebral microcirculation. Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences 105 215-226.
13. Lysiak JJ, Nguyen QA & Turner TT 2000 Fluctuations in rat testicular interstitial oxygen tensions are linked to testicular vasomotion: persistence after repair of torsion. Biology of Reproduction 63 1383-1389.
14. Okumura AFH, Kawauchi Y, Mizuno I & Akashi T 2003 Changes in male reproductive function after high altitude mountaineering. High Altitude Medicine & Biology 4 349-353. (Pubitemid 37259239)
15. Park JD, Habeebu SS & Klaassen CD 2002 Testicular toxicity of di- (2-ethylhexyl)phthalate in young Sprague-Dawley rats. Toxicology 171 105-115. (Pubitemid 34142485)
16. Print CG & Loveland KL 2000 Germ cell suicide: new insights into apoptosis during spermatogenesis. BioEssays 22 423-430.
17. Richburg JH 2000 The relevance of spontaneous- and chemically-induced alterations in testicular germ cell apoptosis to toxicology. Toxicology Letters 112-113 79-86.
18. Saxena DK 1995 Effect of hypoxia by intermittent altitude exposure on semen characteristics and testicular morphology of male rhesus monkeys. International Journal of Biometeorology 38 137-140.
19. Spano M & Evenson DP 1993 Flow cytometric analysis for reproductive biology. Biology of the Cell 78 53-62. (Pubitemid 23278747)
20. Verratti VBF, Di Giulio C, Bosco G, Cacchio M, Pellicciotta M, Nicolai M, Martinotti S & Tenaglia R 2008 Evidence that chronic hypoxia causes reversible impairment on male fertility. Asian Journal of Andrology 10 602-606. (Pubitemid 351865766)
21. Xiong W, Wang H, Wu H, Chen Y & Han D 2009 Apoptotic spermatogenic cells can be energy sources for Sertoli cells. Reproduction 137 469-479.
22. Yamamoto Y, Yamamoto K, Hayase T, Abiru H, Shiota K & Mori C 2002 Methamphetamine induces apoptosis in seminiferous tubules in male mice testis. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 178 155-160. (Pubitemid 34214664)
23. Yu X, Kubota H, Wang R, Saegusa J, Ogawa Y, Ichihara G, Takeuchi Y & Hisanaga N 2001 Involvement of Bcl-2 family genes and Fas signaling system in primary and secondary male germ cell apoptosis induced by 2-bromopropane in rat. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 174 35-48. (Pubitemid 32635004)
24. Zhang X, Yamamoto N, Soramoto S & Takenaka I 2001 Cisplatin-induced germ cell apoptosis in mouse testes. Archives of Andrology 46 43-49. (Pubitemid 32053150)