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1 June 2016 Conditions for Long-Term Culture of Cattle Undifferentiated Spermatogonia
Melissa J. Oatley, Amy V. Kaucher, Qi-En Yang, Muhammad Salman Waqas, Jon M. Oatley
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Abstract

Continual and robust spermatogenesis relies on the actions of an undifferentiated spermatogonial population that contains stem cells. A remarkable feature of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) is the capacity to regenerate spermatogenesis following isolation from a donor testis and transplantation into a permissive recipient testis. This capacity has enormous potential as a tool for enhancing the reproductive capacity of livestock, which can improve production efficiency. Because SSCs are a rare subset of the undifferentiated spermatogonial population, a period of in vitro amplification in number following isolation from donor testicular tissue is essential. Here, we describe methodology for isolation of a cell fraction from prepubertal bull testes that is enriched for undifferentiated spermatogonia and long-term maintenance of the cells in both the feeder cell coculture and the feeder-free format. To achieve this method, we derived bovine fetal fibroblasts (BFF) to serve as feeders for optimizing medium conditions that promote maintenance of bovine undifferentiated spermatogonia for at least 2 mo. In addition, we devised a feeder-free system with BFF-conditioned medium that sustained bovine undifferentiated spermatogonia for at least 1 mo in vitro. The methodologies described could be optimized to provide platforms for exponential expansion of bovine SSCs that will provide the numbers needed for transplantation into recipient testes.

Melissa J. Oatley, Amy V. Kaucher, Qi-En Yang, Muhammad Salman Waqas, and Jon M. Oatley "Conditions for Long-Term Culture of Cattle Undifferentiated Spermatogonia," Biology of Reproduction 95(1), (1 June 2016). https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.116.139832
Received: 23 February 2016; Accepted: 1 May 2016; Published: 1 June 2016
KEYWORDS
Camel
cows
culture
llama
ruminants
sheep
spermatogonia
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