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JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 5, Pages 549-557Publisher
AMER SOC ANDROLOGY, INC
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.107.004614
Keywords
cAMP; intracellular calcium; progesterone
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- Programa de Apoyo a Progectos de Investigacion e Innovacion Tecnologica-Direccion General de Apoyo al Personal Academico/Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (PAPIIT-DGAPA/UNAM) [IN213105, IN213308]
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Technologia (CONACYT) [49517]
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Progesterone induces a fast transient calcium influx in human sperm though the activation of nongenomic receptors. During sperm capacitation, a complex process required for sperm to be able to fertilize the egg, the calcium influx induced by progesterone is enhanced. Sperm capacitation is mediated by an increase in cAMP content and subsequent protein kinase A (PKA) activation. In this work, we examined the effect of increasing intracellular cAMP on the calcium influx induced by progesterone in noncapacitated human sperm. To do this, sperm were exposed to the phosphodiesterase inhibitor papaverine for 5 minutes, a treatment that increased both the cAMP content and the PKA activity several-fold. The calcium influx induced by progesterone was increased by papaverine to levels close to those found in capacitated sperm. This effect was partially inhibited by H89 (48%) and by genistein (41%), and the sum of both inhibitors reduced the stimulating effect of papaverine by 89%. The inhibitory effect of genistein on the progesterone-induced calcium influx could be related to its capability to inhibit the papaverine-stimulated increase in cAMP content and PKA activity. The results presented here suggest that the calcium influx induced by progesterone is upregulated by the PKA activity.
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