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The effects of melatonin on colonization of neonate spermatogonial mouse stem cells in a three-dimensional soft agar culture system

Overview of attention for article published in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, October 2017
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Title
The effects of melatonin on colonization of neonate spermatogonial mouse stem cells in a three-dimensional soft agar culture system
Published in
Stem Cell Research & Therapy, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13287-017-0687-y
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Shadan Navid, Mehdi Abbasi, Yumi Hoshino

Abstract

Melatonin is a pleiotropic hormone with powerful antioxidant activity both in vivo and in vitro. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of melatonin on the proliferation efficiency of neonatal mouse spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) using a three-dimensional soft agar culture system (SACS) which has the capacity to induce development of SSCs similar to in vivo conditions. SSCs were isolated from testes of neonate mice and their purities were assessed by flow cytometry using PLZF antibody. Isolated testicular cells were cultured in the upper layer of the SACS in αMEM medium in the absence or presence of melatonin extract for 4 weeks. The identity of colonies was confirmed by alkaline phosphatase staining and immunocytochemistry using PLZF and α6 integrin antibodies. The number and diameter of colonies of SSCs in the upper layer were evaluated at days 14 and 28 of culture. The number and diameter of colonies of SSCs were significantly higher in the melatonin group compared with the control group. The levels of expression of ID-4 and Plzf, unlike c-kit, were significantly higher in the melatonin group than in the control group. Results of the present study show that supplementation of the culture medium (SACS) with 100 μM melatonin significantly decreased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in the treated group compared with the control group, and increased SSC proliferation.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 23%
Researcher 3 23%
Lecturer 2 15%
Unknown 5 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 15%
Unknown 7 54%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 October 2023.
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#3,461,268
of 24,562,945 outputs
Outputs from Stem Cell Research & Therapy
#295
of 2,641 outputs
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#62,891
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Outputs of similar age from Stem Cell Research & Therapy
#9
of 76 outputs
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