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A new role for androgen in testicular descent: permitting gubernacular cell proliferation in response to the neuropeptide, calcitonin gene-related peptide.

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BACKGROUND/PURPOSE:Cell proliferation at the gubernacular tip increases in response to exogenous calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) during migration into the scrotum. Calcitonin gene-related peptide is contained in the masculinized sensory branches of the genitofemoral nerve. We tested the independent effects of chemical sensory nerve disruption and prenatal androgen blockade on the in vitro gubernacular proliferative response to CGRP. METHODS:Neonatal Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with capsaicin, a sensory nerve toxin, and gubernacula dissected 2 days later (D2). Sprague-Dawley dams were injected with flutamide, an androgen receptor antagonist, between days 15 and 19 of gestation. Flutamide pretreated males, and normal neonatal rats, were dissected at D0 and D2. Gubernacula were cultured for 24 hours +/- CGRP, pulse-labelled for the last 4 hours of culture with bromodeoxyuridine, a thymidine analogue marker for DNA replication, sectioned, and stained using immunohistochemistry. The percentage of positively staining cells in the gubernacular tip was calculated from three separate counts by a blinded observer and compared using analysis of variance. RESULTS:Normal D0 gubernacular tips showed a significant response of cell proliferation to exogenous CGRP (34% vs 9% in controls, P < .001), which resolved by day 2 (16% vs 12%, P > .05). Calcitonin gene-related peptide markedly increased cell proliferation in D2 capsaicin pretreated gubernacula compared with controls (25% vs 14%, P < .01) and normal D2 gubernacula cultured with CGRP (P < .01). D0 flutamide pretreated cultured with CGRP showed no increase in cell proliferation compared with controls (16% vs 11%), but a small response was seen by D2 (19% vs 9%, P < .05). There was no significant difference between proliferation rates in the control groups. CONCLUSIONS:Sensory innervation interruption sensitises the gubernaculum to exogenous CGRP, suggesting upregulation of CGRP receptors. In contrast, androgen blockade abolishes the increased rate of cell proliferation within the gubernacular tip. We conclude that androgens are necessary to "preprogramme" the proliferative response of the gubernaculum to CGRP.

journal_name

J Pediatr Surg

journal_title

Journal of pediatric surgery

authors

Shenker NS,Huynh J,Farmer PJ,Hutson JM

doi

10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2005.11.019

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-02-01 00:00:00

pages

407-12

issue

eissn

0022-3468

issn

1531-5037

pii

S0022-3468(05)00877-8

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pub_type

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A new role for androgen in testicular descent: permitting gubernacular cell proliferation in response to the neuropeptide, calcitonin gene-related peptide.