PMID: 7542932May 1, 1995Paper

Efferent innervation of the rat testis

Biology of Reproduction
M RauchenwaldC Desjardins

Abstract

Previous assessments of the autonomic nerve supply of the male genital tract concluded that the testis received sympathetic input primarily from paraaortic ganglia, particularly the spermatic ganglion. We challenged this consensus by using retrograde axonal tracing to examine the source and distribution of efferent fibers reaching the testis of adult rats. We also used immunohistochemical methods to assess putative neurotransmitters in testicular neurons of the abdominal and pelvic ganglia. The results indicate the majority of retrogradely labeled cell profiles were localized within the major pelvic (38%) and pelvic accessory ganglia (37%), and only a few labeled cell profiles were present in the paraaortic and spermatic ganglia. Injection of FluoroGold and Fast Blue dyes into the respective right and left testis demonstrated that 17% of the neurons in pelvic ganglia were labeled when tracers were microinjected beneath the capsule of the contralateral testis. About 8% of the neurons were labeled both with FluoroGold and Fast Blue, suggesting that certain neurons can provide simultaneous input to the left and right testicles. Immunohistochemical results showed that tyrosine hydroxylase, a marker for noradrenergic fibers, was pre...Continue Reading

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