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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 150, 1421-1431, Copyright © 1997 by American Society for Investigative Pathology
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I Virtanen, J Lohi, T Tani, M Korhonen, RE Burgeson, VP Lehto and I Leivo
Department of Anatomy, University of Helsinki, Finland.
We studied the distribution of laminin (Ln) chains and their integrin (Int) receptors in normal developing and adult and in atrophied human testes by using immunohistochemistry. Immunostaining for EHS Ln and type IV collagen was used to identify basement membranes (BMs). In the BM of seminiferous epithelium of fetal testis, a panel of monoclonal antibodies showed immunoreactivity for Ln alpha 1-, alpha 2-, beta 1-, beta 2- and gamma 1-chains, suggestive of the presence of Lns 1 to 3. In BM of adult seminiferous epithelium with active spermatogenesis, immunoreactivity for Ln beta 2- and gamma 1-chains was found but not for Ln alpha-chains, suggesting a complex of Ln chains not compatible with any known trimers. Instead, with polyclonal Ln antiserum and monoclonal antibody to type IV collagen, a distinct BM-like reactivity was seen. In atrophied testes, prominent immunoreactivities for Ln chains, compatible with Lns 1 to 3, were seen in the thickened BM of seminiferous tubules, hence suggestive of reappearance of fetal Lns. Among the subunits of Ln-binding Int receptors in fetal seminiferous tubules, a strong immunoreactivity for Int beta 1- and Int alpha 6- subunits was seen throughout the seminiferous epithelium, other Int subunits being found in interstitial cells. In the adult and atrophied testes, immunoreactivities for Int beta 1- and Int alpha 6-subunits were seen to be confined to the basal aspect of the seminiferous epithelium whereas immunoreactivities for Int alpha 1-, alpha 2-, alpha 3- and beta 4-subunits were seen in the myoid cells. The results show that both maturation and degenerative changes of human testes are accompanied by distinct changes in the Ln expression of BM of seminiferous epithelium, which appears to accompany epithelial differentiation of the Sertoli cells. Furthermore, they suggest the presence of a novel Ln trimer in BM of adult human seminiferous tubules.
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