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1 July 2003 Mouse Round Spermatids Developed In Vitro from Preexisting Spermatocytes Can Produce Normal Offspring by Nuclear Injection into In Vivo-Developed Mature Oocytes
Joel Marh, Laura L. Tres, Yukiko Yamazaki, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, Abraham L. Kierszenbaum
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Abstract

It has been shown that mature oocytes injected with nuclei from round spermatids collected from mouse testis can generate normal offspring and that round spermatids can develop in vitro. An undetermined issue is whether spermatids developed in vitro are capable of generating fertile offspring by nuclear injection into oocytes. Herein, we report the production of normal and fertile offspring by nuclear injection using haploid spermatid donors derived from mouse primary spermatocyte precursors cocultured with Sertoli cells. Cocultured spermatogonia and spermatocytes were characterized by their nuclear immunoreactive patterns determined by an antibody to phosphorylated histone H2AX (γ-H2AX), a marker for DNA double-strand breaks. Cocultured round spermatid progenies display more than one motile flagellum, whose axonemes were recognized by antitubulin immunostaining. Flagellar wavelike movement and flagellar-driven propulsion of round spermatids developed in vitro were documented by videomicroscopy ( http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/∼kier). We also show that breeding of male and female mouse offspring generated by spermatid nuclear injection produced fertile offspring. In addition to their capacity to produce fertile offspring, cocultured, flagellated round spermatids can facilitate the analysis of the mechanisms of centriolar polarity, duplication, assembly, and flagellar growth, including the intraflagellar transport of cargo proteins.

Joel Marh, Laura L. Tres, Yukiko Yamazaki, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, and Abraham L. Kierszenbaum "Mouse Round Spermatids Developed In Vitro from Preexisting Spermatocytes Can Produce Normal Offspring by Nuclear Injection into In Vivo-Developed Mature Oocytes," Biology of Reproduction 69(1), 169-176, (1 July 2003). https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.102.015099
Received: 30 December 2002; Accepted: 1 February 2003; Published: 1 July 2003
KEYWORDS
assisted reproductive technology
early development
fertilization
oocyte development
sperm motility and transport
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