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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-10-29
pubmed:abstractText
Gene expression of mouse testicular germ cells and surrounding somatic cells during spermatogenesis was examined by RNA:cDNA hybridization in situ and concomitant Northern and dot blot analysis. Particular attention was paid to obtaining fixation and hybridization procedures for use with mouse testes to accomplish sensitive and precise localization with the in situ technique. alpha-Tubulin mRNAs were localized in virtually all testis cell types. In elongating spermatids, a unique labeling pattern was visualized; possibly corresponding to the position of the asymmetrically displaced cytoplasm. Pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) transcripts in the adult mouse testis detected by Northern blot analysis were shown to be of a smaller size (approximately 600-800 nt) than the pituitary POMC transcripts, similar to what has been reported recently for POMC expression in the rat testis and mouse Leydig cell lines. Localization of POMC mRNAs by in situ hybridization was primarily to Leydig cells, although some labeling of spermatogonia and spermatocytes within the seminiferous epithelium was detected. A cellular or developmental specificity of the pattern of POMC localization was observed: obvious labeling of Leydig cells was limited to interstitial regions which were surrounded completely or in part by tubules in stages IX to XII of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0012-1606
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
111
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
293-305
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Localization of mRNAs in mouse testes by in situ hybridization: distribution of alpha-tubulin and developmental stage specificity of pro-opiomelanocortin transcripts.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't