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  • Title: Relationship between steroidogenesis and spermiation in Rana catesbeiana and Leptodactylus ocellatus.
    Author: Rosemblit C, Pozzi AG, Ceballos NR.
    Journal: J Comp Physiol B; 2006 Aug; 176(6):559-66. PubMed ID: 16552601.
    Abstract:
    The present study employs an in vitro system to analyse the role of steroid hormones in hCG-induced spermiation in two species of anuran amphibian: Rana catesbeiana and Leptodactylus ocellatus. In vitro spermiation was induced with 10 IU hCG and the effect of different steroid-biosynthesis inhibitors was analysed. Cyanoketone (10(-5)M), an inhibitor of 3-oxo-4-ene steroid biosynthesis, did not block hCG-inducing activity even when biosynthesis of androgen was significantly reduced. These results clearly showed that, in both species, spermiation-inducing action of hCG does not depend on the biosynthesis of 3-oxo-4-ene steroids. Moreover, when combined inhibitors, aminoglutethimide (10(-5)M) plus cyanoketone (10(-5)M), were employed, spermiation evoked by hCG was not modified while hCG-induced androgen secretion significantly decreased. Additionally, none of the steroids used, progesterone, 17, 20 alpha-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one, testosterone and 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone, were able to induce spermiation in the absence of hCG, confirming that steroids are not involved in that process. In conclusion, as previously described in Bufo arenarum, in L. ocellatus and R. catesbeiana hCG-induced spermiation does not depend on steroid biosynthesis.
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