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As an initial approach to the study of seminiferous tubule androgen receptors in disordered spermatogenesis, cytosol androgen receptors were studied in rats with experimental cryptorchidism. Two weeks after the testis had been repositioned in the abdomen of 6-week-old rats, the animals were hypophysectomized to deplete the testis of androgen, and 1 week later they were killed. Androgen receptor binding was studied in seminiferous tubule cytosol using [³H]methyltrienolone as the radiolabelled probe. The androgen-binding capacity of cryptorchid testis, when expressed as fmol bound/testis, was reduced to 50% of control, in parallel with the decline in testis weight. No change in binding affinity was found. Sucrose density gradient centrifugation using a vertical tube rotor revealed a 9S molybdate-stabilized receptor under low-salt conditions in both cryptorchid and scrotal seminiferous tubule cytosol. Receptor-complex stability studies, analysis by gel filtration and DEAEcellulose chromatography produced similar results in cryptorchid and scrotal tubules. The mechanism for the reduction in testicular receptor content of an abdominal testis remains to be clarified. The demonstration that testicular androgen receptors can be reduced by cryptorchidism suggests that further studies may indicate the role of receptor binding in testicular function.

J. Endocr. (1986) 109, 427–433

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