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  • Title: Glucose- and fructose-induced dog-sperm glycogen synthesis shows specific changes in the location of the sperm glycogen deposition.
    Author: Palomo MJ, FernAndez-Novell JM, Peña A, Guinovart JJ, Rigau T, Rodríguez-Gil JE.
    Journal: Mol Reprod Dev; 2003 Mar; 64(3):349-59. PubMed ID: 12548667.
    Abstract:
    Immunocytochemistry of glycogen deposition in dog sperm from fresh ejaculates showed that 53.7% of the population had glycogen at the midpiece, whereas 27.3% of the whole population accumulated glycogen only in the post-acrosomal region of the head. A similar distribution was observed when glycogen synthase, the enzyme which controls glycogen deposition, was studied. Incubation of spermatozoa with fructose increases the intracellular glycogen levels in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. Moreover, after incubation with 2 mM fructose for 30 min, 47.3% of the spermatozoa had glycogen located in both the midpiece and post-acrosomal zone, 25.4% of the population showed the polysaccharide only in the midpiece, and 24.7% of the spermatozoa showed a uniform distribution of glycogen all over the cell. Similar results were observed after incubation with 10-mM fructose. The distribution of glycogen synthase followed a similar pattern to that of glycogen. Incubation with glucose also induced a time- and concentration-dependent increase of glycogen content, whereas incubation with 2 mM glucose for 30 min showed that the majority of the population (81.2%) had the glycogen distributed throughout either the midpiece or the midpiece and the post-acrosomal zones together. There were practically no cells with a uniform glycogen distribution. Similar results were obtained after incubation with 10-mM glucose, whereas glycogen synthase suffered a similar glucose-induced distribution change. These results indicate that dog-sperm glycogen metabolism is modulated by changes in the activity of their controlling enzymes and also by changes in the specific location places where glycogen synthesis is produced.
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