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Immunofluorescence staining using human autoantibodies is a simple and reliable method for investigation of meiotic and post-meiotic cells. Patients suffering from autoimmune diseases often produce circulating autoantibodies to antigens of germ cells and Sertoli cells. Four hundred human autoimmune sera were screened by indirect immunofluorescence on mouse seminiferous tubule cells. Autoantibodies of several specificities were found: one group reacted with organelles of meiotic prophase spermatocytes or spermatozoa. Included in this group were autoantibodies to synaptonemal complexes, sex vesicle, acrosome, and sperm tail. A second group of autoantibodies was found to stain different spermatogenic cell types uniformly, such as round spermatids or Sertoli cells.
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