Immunohistochemical study of intermediate filaments and neuroendocrine marker expression in leydig cells of laboratory rodents

Anatomia, histologia, embryologia
H H OrtegaN R Salvetti

Abstract

The aims of this study were to detect the expression of intermediate filaments and to verify the existence of marker substances for neuronal and neuroendocrine cells within the interstitial Leydig cells of laboratory rodent's testes, such as it has been described in other species. Adult male rats, mice, gerbils, Syrian hamsters and guinea-pigs were used and the localization of the different markers was achieved by the streptoavidin-peroxidase immunohistochemical method. The present study demonstrates in all rodents studied a similar pattern of localization in Leydig cells of intermediate filaments (vimentin, cytokeratin, neurofilament 200 kD and glial fibrillary acidic protein) and other marker substances (S-100, CgA, substance P and neurone-specific enolase), which are typical of neuroendocrine (APUD cells or paraneurones) and glial cells. The expression of these substances, related to neurotransmitters or neurohomones and other proteins characteristic of neuroendocrine cells, could suggest that it is a neural crest derived cell. Although this study provides more evidences about the immunoexpression of neuronal and glial markers in Leydig cells, this fact cannot be related directly to their embryological origin, because the cu...Continue Reading

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