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S A Bozek

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Deposition pattern of the antifertility agent, gossypol, in selected organs of male rats.

Male rats received daily, oral doses of gossypol-acetate (40 mg/kg body wt) for 2, 4, or 8 weeks to determine patterns of gossypol deposition in the spleen, liver, heart, kidneys, lungs, and testes during establishment of a gossypol-induced infertility. Infertility was exhibited at the end of the 4-week dosing period. Free and bound gossypol accumulated in all of the organs.

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Scanning electron microscopic study of spermatozoa from gossypol-treated rats.

Spermatozoa from the cauda epididymidis of gossypol-treated rats exhibit distinctive departures from the morphology of spermatozoa from control rats: wrinkled and disorganized cell membrane in the head and tail regions, cell membrane missing from segments of the tail midpiece and principal piece regions, malformed heads, decapitate spermatozoa, retention of a cytoplasmic droplet at variable loci along tail midpieces, and looped tails. The observations suggest that gossypol exerts its contraceptive effect during spermatocytogenesis and spermiogenesis, including the posttesticular development and maturation of spermatozoa in the epididymis.

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