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    Electronic Resource
    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    The @Anatomical Record 180 (1974), S. 597-603 
    ISSN: 0003-276X
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The minimum period of uterine exposure required by ejaculated boar spermatozoa as a preliminary to rapid capacitation has been determined after natural or surgical deposition of sperm samples directly into the uterine lumen. Twenty-four oestrous gilts were mated or inseminated close to the time of ovulation, and 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes later, the Fallopian tubes were separated from the uterine cornua. The tubes were flushed at pre-arranged intervals during a second intervention, and the proportion of eggs penetrated and activated examined by phase-contrast microscopy.On the basis of 166 eggs recovered from eighteen mated gilts, a period of uterine exposure as brief as 30 minutes, when followed by a tubal residence of approximately three hours, permitted 30.3% of the eggs to be activated; this proportion increased to 51.6% and 60.5% if the tubes were isolated 45 or 60 minutes, respectively, after mating (p 〈 0.001), as did the mean number of spermatozoa associated with the eggs. When the cornua were separated from the tubes 15 minutes after semen deposition into the uterus of six animals, 11.3% of 62 eggs were fertilized during the ensuing three and one half hours, but very few spermatozoa had reached and/or attached to the eggs in this group.It is concluded that a population of boar spermatozoa potentially capable of effecting fertilization may enter the tubes within 15 to 30 minutes of mating near the time of ovulation, and that such vanguard spermatozoa can activate a proportion of the eggs within a further two to three hours. Thus, from a temporal point of view, the major components of the capacitation process in oestrous pigs are inferred to take place in the Fallopian tubes.
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    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Mouse teratocarcinoma cells derived from embryoid bodies of 129SVsl mice were cultured in vitro to permit their differentiation. These cells were then infected with simiam virus 40 (SV40) and 31 cloned cell lines (SVTER) were derived from these cultures. All 31 SVTER cell lines contained the SV40 tumor (T) antigen and grew as permanent lines in culture. Mock-infected embryoid body cultures did not give rise to permanent cell lines. The morphology of each SVTER cell line was distinct and did not change during successive subclonings.The growth properties and tumorigenic potential of all 31 SVTER cell lines were investigated. None of these lines produced tumors in 129SVsl mice. Each cell line was tested for its ability to (1) grow in medium containing 1% serum, (2) plate on a cell monolayer, and (3) form clones in methocel suspension. Only three of the SVTER cell lines were transformed with respect to all three of these criteria. Most of these cell lines were minimal transformation.The SVTER cell lines were tested for creatine phosphokinase (CPK), an enzyme activity characteristic of mouse brain and muscle tissue, and the protease, plasminogen activator (PA) which is found in embryoid bodies and several differentiated cell types. Some of the SVTER cell lines contained high levels of CPK, while others had high levels of PA and a third group of cells contained neither enzyme activity. No SVTER cell line was found with high levels of both these enzyme activities. This result suggests that mutually exclusive sets of genes are expressed in these cells as might be expected from the distinct tissue distribution of the two enzyme activities studied. These SVTER cell lines may be useful in reconstructing developmental pathways of differentiating teratomas in vitro.
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