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Direct action of FSH on testicular stem cells
Recently published article by Pieri’s group suggested that follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) activates canine testicular spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) and results in increased expression of pluripotent markers and formation of germ cell clumps possibly via indirect paracrine effect of Sertoli ce...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6708140/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31443684 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13287-019-1390-y |
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description | Recently published article by Pieri’s group suggested that follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) activates canine testicular spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) and results in increased expression of pluripotent markers and formation of germ cell clumps possibly via indirect paracrine effect of Sertoli cells. We disagree with their interpretations and herewith provide a better explanation to their findings. We have earlier reported the presence of pluripotent, very small embryonic-like stem cells (VSELs) as a sub-group among the SSCs in human and mouse testes and that both VSELs and SSCs express FSH receptors. Thus, FSH exerts a direct stimulatory action on the testicular stem/progenitor cells whereby VSELs undergo asymmetrical cell divisions to self-renew (result in upregulation of pluripotent markers) and give rise to slightly bigger SSCs which undergo symmetrical cell divisions and “clonal expansion” (rapid proliferation with incomplete cytokinesis) which was noted by the authors as “clump” formation. This action of FSH is mediated via alternately spliced FSHR3 rather than the canonical FSHR1 receptor isoform, and FSH exerts similar action on ovarian and uterine stem/progenitor cells also. Being quiescent by nature, VSELs survive chemotherapy. Transplanted germ cells colonize chemoablated tubules but do not differentiate into sperm since the testicular stem cell niche comprising Sertoli cells gets functionally compromised by chemotherapy. Transplanting healthy niche cells (Sertoli or bone marrow-derived mesenchymal cells) can restore spermatogenesis in chemoablated testes. |
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spelling | pubmed-67081402019-08-28 Direct action of FSH on testicular stem cells Patel, Hiren Bhartiya, Deepa Stem Cell Res Ther Letter Recently published article by Pieri’s group suggested that follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) activates canine testicular spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) and results in increased expression of pluripotent markers and formation of germ cell clumps possibly via indirect paracrine effect of Sertoli cells. We disagree with their interpretations and herewith provide a better explanation to their findings. We have earlier reported the presence of pluripotent, very small embryonic-like stem cells (VSELs) as a sub-group among the SSCs in human and mouse testes and that both VSELs and SSCs express FSH receptors. Thus, FSH exerts a direct stimulatory action on the testicular stem/progenitor cells whereby VSELs undergo asymmetrical cell divisions to self-renew (result in upregulation of pluripotent markers) and give rise to slightly bigger SSCs which undergo symmetrical cell divisions and “clonal expansion” (rapid proliferation with incomplete cytokinesis) which was noted by the authors as “clump” formation. This action of FSH is mediated via alternately spliced FSHR3 rather than the canonical FSHR1 receptor isoform, and FSH exerts similar action on ovarian and uterine stem/progenitor cells also. Being quiescent by nature, VSELs survive chemotherapy. Transplanted germ cells colonize chemoablated tubules but do not differentiate into sperm since the testicular stem cell niche comprising Sertoli cells gets functionally compromised by chemotherapy. Transplanting healthy niche cells (Sertoli or bone marrow-derived mesenchymal cells) can restore spermatogenesis in chemoablated testes. BioMed Central 2019-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6708140/ /pubmed/31443684 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13287-019-1390-y Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Letter Patel, Hiren Bhartiya, Deepa Direct action of FSH on testicular stem cells |
title | Direct action of FSH on testicular stem cells |
title_full | Direct action of FSH on testicular stem cells |
title_fullStr | Direct action of FSH on testicular stem cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Direct action of FSH on testicular stem cells |
title_short | Direct action of FSH on testicular stem cells |
title_sort | direct action of fsh on testicular stem cells |
topic | Letter |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6708140/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31443684 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13287-019-1390-y |
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