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a Station de Physiologie de la Reproduction des Mammifères Domestiques, URA INRA-CNRS 1291, 37380 Monnaie, France
Approximately 48% of all the proteins secreted in the adult boar epididymis were dependent on the presence of androgens, either stimulated (33.6%) or repressed (14.4%); 47% were modulated by other factors, and 5% were unregulated. In the proximal caput, 50% of the specific secreted proteins were controlled essentially by factors emanating from the testis. In more distal regions, two proteins secreted in the corpus were regulated by factors from the anterior regions.
The regionalization of the secretory activity of the epididymal epithelium resulted in a specific regulation for each protein, which was modulated according to the region of expression and influenced by either testicular or epididymal factors that remain to be identified.
The number of proteins secreted by the boar epididymis increased progressively from 1 mo of age to the adult period. The first specific secretory activity was revealed at 2 mo in the distal caput (hexosaminidase, clusterin, and lactoferrin) and in the corpus (train O/HE1). Train A and glutathione peroxidase specific to the proximal caput, and trains E and M specific to the corpus, appeared at 4 mo. At 5 mo, secretion of procathepsin L occurred in the middle caput and that of mannosidase and E-RABP in the distal caput.
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