Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Induction of Apoptosis in the Testes of Goldfish (Carassius auratus) (original) (raw)

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Claudia V. Andreu-Vieyra, Andre G. Buret, Hamid R. Habibi, Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Induction of Apoptosis in the Testes of Goldfish (Carassius auratus), Endocrinology, Volume 146, Issue 3, 1 March 2005, Pages 1588–1596, https://doi.org/10.1210/en.2004-0818
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Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, can occur via death receptor or mitochondrial pathways. Normal spermatogenesis in mammals involves apoptosis mediated, in part, by the death receptor fas and its ligand. The regulation of programmed cell death in the gonads has been shown to be dependent on a number of locally produced factors, including GnRH. Whereas the role of GnRH in the control of apoptosis and follicular atresia has been documented in the mammalian ovary, GnRH regulation of testicular apoptosis remains obscure. A previous study in our laboratory demonstrated the involvement of GnRH on the induction of DNA fragmentation in mature, perispawning testis. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that GnRH plays a differential regulatory role during male gamete maturation by studying the effect of GnRH on the induction of apoptosis during goldfish spermatogenesis. Treatment with GnRH resulted in DNA fragmentation only during late stages of spermatogenesis as assessed by oligonucleotide detection and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate nick end labeling assays. The GnRH-induced apoptosis in the goldfish testis was found to be mediated by increased levels of fas and fas ligand-like proteins as well as elevated activity of caspase-3 (an executioner caspase) and -8 (a death receptor-activated caspase). The results suggest the involvement of the death receptor pathway in GnRH-induced apoptosis, providing support for the hypothesis that GnRH plays an important role in the control of spermatogenesis in the goldfish testis.

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