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Absence of relaxin immunostaining in the male reproductive tracts of the rat and mouse

MB Anderson, M Collado-Torres and MR Vaupel

By use of the biotin-avidin immunohistochemical method and a homologous antiserum as the primary antiserum, relaxin immunostaining was absent in the testes, prostate, seminal vesicles, and epididymides of the rat. Relaxin immunostaining was also lacking when anti-porcine relaxin serum was employed as the primary antiserum. Furthermore, immunohistochemical studies for relaxin localization in the reproductive tract of the male mouse using both anti-rat and anti-porcine relaxin sera also revealed an absence of the hormone in the reproductive system of this species. Although this study suggests that immunoreactive relaxin is absent in the male reproductive tracts of both the rat and mouse, it raises some questions concerning the reports in the literature of the presence of relaxin-like substances in the male reproductive tracts of other species. These reports are discussed in relation to our current results.

Volume 34, Issue 7, pp. 945-948, 07/01/1986
Copyright © 1986 by The Histochemical Society


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