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2015 ; 2015
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Ultrastructural Morphology of Sperm from Human Globozoospermia
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Ricci G
; Andolfi L
; Zabucchi G
; Luppi S
; Boscolo R
; Martinelli M
; Zweyer M
; Trevisan E
Biomed Res Int
2015[]; 2015
(ä): 798754
PMID26436098
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Globozoospermia is a rare disorder characterized by the presence of sperm with
round head, lacking acrosome. Coiling tail around the nucleus has been reported
since early human studies, but no specific significance has conferred it. By
contrast, studies on animal models suggest that coiling tail around the nucleus
could represent a crucial step of defective spermatogenesis, resulting in
round-headed sperm. No observations, so far, support the transfer of this
hypothesis to human globozoospermia. The purpose of this work was to compare
ultrastructural morphology of human and mouse model globozoospermic sperm. Sperm
have been investigated by using scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
The images that we obtained show significant similarities to those described in
GOPC knockout mice, an animal model of globozoospermia. By using this model as
reference, we were able to identify the probable steps of the tail coiling
process in human globozoospermia. Although we have no evidence that there is the
same pathophysiology in man and knocked-out mouse, the similarities between these
ultrastructural observations in human and those in the experimental model are
very suggestive. This is the first demonstration of the existence of relevant
morphological homologies between the tail coiling in animal model and human
globozoospermia.