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Changes in extracellular osmolality initiate sperm motility in freshwater teleost rosy barb Puntius conchonius
Authors:J Hu  Y Zhang  R Zhou  Y Zhang
Institution:aDepartment of Life Science, Liaocheng University, 1 Hunan Road, Liaocheng 252059, People's Republic of China
Abstract:The objective was to investigate the effects of extracellular osmolality and membrane osmotic-sensitive channels on the initiation of sperm motility and to explore mechanisms of sperm initiation in rosy barb (Puntius conchonius). We found that (1) sperm were immotile in seminal plasma and remained quiescent in electrolyte or nonelectrolyte solutions isotonic to seminal plasma; (2) sperm movement was initiated when the sperm were exposed to hypo-osmotic electrolyte or hypo-osmotic nonelectrolyte solutions, and that the responsiveness of sperm to changes in the extracellular osmolalities (100, 200, 250, 270, and 300 mOsm/kg) differed among sperm cells (P < 0.05); (3) sperm movement could be initiated and terminated repeatedly by decreasing and increasing the osmolality (in increments of 100 and 300 mOsm/kg) of a nonelectrolyte mannitol solution, respectively (P < 0.05); (4) gadolinium (20, 40, and 80 μM) inhibited the initiation of sperm motility and abolished the sperm activation caused by the hypo-osmotic media treatment in dose- and time-dependent manners (P < 0.05); and (5) sperm activation in a hypo-osmotic medium and inhibition in an isotonic solution were associated with swelling and shrinkage of the sperm sleeves, respectively. Therefore, we concluded that osmolality was a critical physiologic signal in regulating the initiation and termination of sperm motility in freshwater teleost rosy barb. Furthermore, we inferred that rosy barb sperm were hypo-osmotic–dependent conformers, and the osmotic-sensitive channel could be involved in the mechanism of sperm initiation.
Keywords:Gadolinium  Initiation  Motility  Osmolality  Sperm
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