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Query: UNIPROT:P56851 (epididymal)
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We have been able to culture caput epididymal tubules from rats by modifying an organ culture system (Orgebin-Crist et al, 1980) which was used to culture rabbit corpus epididymal tubule segments. The morphology of the epithelium was consistently good throughout seven days in culture, although sloughed epithelium was commonly seen during the first 24 hours. Evidence of this sloughing was much less frequent thereafter. Throughout seven days of culture, autoradiography of SDS-PAGE of luminal fluid obtained from tubules cultured in medium containing 14C-L-leucine showed incorporation into bands identical to those stained by Coomassie Blue. Rat epididymal alpha-lactalbumin was consistently localized on the luminal surface of the epithelium and the middle piece of the spermatozoa. Spermatozoa appeared to have normal morphology throughout the first three days in culture; thereafter, decapitated spermatozoa were frequently seen. Caput spermatozoa only quiver in place prior to culture, but after three days in culture, 53% of the spermatozoa from distal caput tubules are progressively motile upon dilution in a balanced salt solution. Since the transit time for spermatozoa in the caput epididymidis of the rat is approximately three days, it should be possible with this culture system to study maturational events involving interactions between spermatozoa and the epididymal epithelium.
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PMID:Organ culture of rat caput epididymal tubules in a perifusion chamber. 646 62

Androgen-dependent epididymal proteins were investigated in the hamster. The stimulation of labelled amino acid incorporation, as well as the colour intensity of bands stained with Coomassie Blue after electrophoresis of the epididymal cytosol from castrated animals with and without androgen replacement, were used as semi-quantitative criteria for evaluation. These techniques allowed the identification of 6 androgen-sensitive bands (EP) with the following relative electrophoretic mobilities with respect to albumin: EP1 = 0.8; EP2 = 1.11; EP3 = 1.21; EP4 = 1.31; EP5 = 1.52; EP6 = 1.63. The proteins EP1, EP3 and EP4 were also found in fluid from the cauda epididymidis. Extraction of spermatozoa from the distal corpus and cauda epididymidis with 0.25 and 0.5 M-NaCl yielded appreciable amounts of EP2 and EP3 but these bands were not detected in extracts of spermatozoa from proximal segments. The approximate molecular weights were 651 400 for EP1, 42 500 for EP2, 23 800 for EP3, 20 400 for EP4, 26 100 for EP5 and 41 000 for EP6. All bands stained as glycoproteins with periodic acid--Schiff reagent.
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PMID:Identification of androgen-dependent glycoproteins in the hamster epididymis and their association with spermatozoa. 705 86