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The initial stages of the development of the seminiferous cords involve the differentiation and the aggregation of primordial Sertoli cells opposite to cells which acquire a mesenchymal-like aspect. The hypothesis that the development of the seminiferous cords depends on epithelial-mesenchymal relations between the two cell types was submitted to experimental test. Male gonadal primordia of rat fetuses were cultured in vitro in a synthetic medium containing the proline competitor, L-Azetidine-2-Carboxylic Acid. This drug is known to disturb the synthesis and secretion of collagen and proline-containing proteins. It prevents testicular organogenesis or destroys it if it has begun. It suppresses the expression of laminin and fibronectin in the gonadal primordium. These observations are taken as evidence that cellular correlations of the epithelial-mesenchymal type play a role in the development of the testis as they do in that of other organs.
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