Inhibition of autophagy of fetal rabbit gonoducts by puromycin, tunicamycin and chloroquin in organ culture
| Autor: | J. Segalen, B. Djehiche, Y. Chambon |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Cell Vacuole Biology Organ culture Mesonephric duct chemistry.chemical_compound Organ Culture Techniques Internal medicine medicine Autophagy Animals Mullerian Ducts Fetus Tunicamycin Biological Transport Chloroquine Cell Biology General Medicine Wolffian Ducts Enzyme Activation medicine.anatomical_structure Endocrinology chemistry Puromycin Female Rabbits Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Tissuecell. 28(1) |
| ISSN: | 0040-8166 |
| Popis: | At the end of ambisexual stage, mullerian or wolffian ducts are programmed to die. Cell degeneration is initialized by an appearance of lysosomes, subsequently involved in invading autophagic vacuoles. In an organ culture assay, performed for 6 days, treatments by puromycin, tunicamycin and chloroquine, known to act on synthesis, transport and activation of lysosomal enzymes, were applied to inhibit the duct regression. Four situations were studied: female genital tract of 17 day post coitum (d.p.c.) cultured with differentiated testis of 19 d.p.c.; male genital ducts of 17 d.p.c. cultured without testis; female and male genital tracts of 17 d.p.c. cultured alone as controls. The stabilization of the mullerian duct cultured with testis and of the wolffian duct cultured without testis was obtained. Ultrastructuraly, the lysosomes were scarce or absent and no autophagic vacuoles were observed. In preventing the formation of lysosomes, it was possible to avoid the duct cell autophagy and to comfirm the existence of a wolffian lysosomal system spontaneously active when testosterone is absent, while a mullerian one spontaneously inactive when AMH is absent. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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