The aetiology of severe asthenozoospermia in men with spinal cord injury includes an adverse impact of seminal plasma (SP) on sperm motility. In this study we investigated the effect exerted by SP from men with SCI on donor sperm mitochondrial activity and its reflection on motility. Donor spermatozoa were exposed (1 h) to SP from 22 ejaculates of men with SCI. Only SP from samples exhibiting both a low fructose level and an inhibitory effect on mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm), assessed at flow cytometry with JC-1, affected donor sperm motility when evaluated 1 h after co-incubation. This effect was reverted by washing from SP and sperm re-suspension in medium containing glucose, in spite of persistently depressed ΔΨm. In the same samples, sperm motility and vitality dramatically decreased when evaluated 6 h after washing and re-suspension in the glucose-containing medium. Seminal plasmas which induced a disruption of ΔΨm, also enhanced a mitochondrial ROS generation, as assessed by MitoSOX red. The enhanced mitochondrial ROS generation was associated with a late induction of sperm membrane lipid peroxidation, as assessed by BODIPY C11 , when evaluated at 6 h, but not at 1 h, after washing from SP. Furthermore, activation of caspase-9 and caspase-3 accompanied the loss of ΔΨm. In conclusion, a double energetic blockage (glycolysis and mitochondrial respiration) can represent a metabolic determinant of the early adverse effect exerted by SP from men with SCI on sperm motility. Mitochondrial dysfunction-related oxidative/apoptotic mechanisms can account for later consequences on sperm motility/vitality. © 2013 American Society of Andrology and European Academy of Andrology.

Involvement of mitochondrial dysfunction in the adverse effect exerted by seminal plasma from men with spinal cord injury on sperm motility / A., Barbonetti; M. R. C., Vassallo; A., Di Rosa; Y., Leombruni; G., Felzani; Gandini, Loredana; Lenzi, Andrea; S., Necozione; S., Francavilla; F., Francavilla. - In: ANDROLOGY. - ISSN 2047-2927. - 1:3(2013), pp. 456-463. [10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00077.x]

Involvement of mitochondrial dysfunction in the adverse effect exerted by seminal plasma from men with spinal cord injury on sperm motility.

GANDINI, Loredana;LENZI, Andrea;
2013

Abstract

The aetiology of severe asthenozoospermia in men with spinal cord injury includes an adverse impact of seminal plasma (SP) on sperm motility. In this study we investigated the effect exerted by SP from men with SCI on donor sperm mitochondrial activity and its reflection on motility. Donor spermatozoa were exposed (1 h) to SP from 22 ejaculates of men with SCI. Only SP from samples exhibiting both a low fructose level and an inhibitory effect on mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm), assessed at flow cytometry with JC-1, affected donor sperm motility when evaluated 1 h after co-incubation. This effect was reverted by washing from SP and sperm re-suspension in medium containing glucose, in spite of persistently depressed ΔΨm. In the same samples, sperm motility and vitality dramatically decreased when evaluated 6 h after washing and re-suspension in the glucose-containing medium. Seminal plasmas which induced a disruption of ΔΨm, also enhanced a mitochondrial ROS generation, as assessed by MitoSOX red. The enhanced mitochondrial ROS generation was associated with a late induction of sperm membrane lipid peroxidation, as assessed by BODIPY C11 , when evaluated at 6 h, but not at 1 h, after washing from SP. Furthermore, activation of caspase-9 and caspase-3 accompanied the loss of ΔΨm. In conclusion, a double energetic blockage (glycolysis and mitochondrial respiration) can represent a metabolic determinant of the early adverse effect exerted by SP from men with SCI on sperm motility. Mitochondrial dysfunction-related oxidative/apoptotic mechanisms can account for later consequences on sperm motility/vitality. © 2013 American Society of Andrology and European Academy of Andrology.
2013
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Involvement of mitochondrial dysfunction in the adverse effect exerted by seminal plasma from men with spinal cord injury on sperm motility / A., Barbonetti; M. R. C., Vassallo; A., Di Rosa; Y., Leombruni; G., Felzani; Gandini, Loredana; Lenzi, Andrea; S., Necozione; S., Francavilla; F., Francavilla. - In: ANDROLOGY. - ISSN 2047-2927. - 1:3(2013), pp. 456-463. [10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00077.x]
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