Bakst M R
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705.
Scanning Microsc. 1987 Sep;1(3):1257-66.
The anatomical basis of oviductal sperm-storage in the avian oviduct is the sperm-storage tubule (SST). In the turkey this is composed of a simple columnar epithelium characterized by a supranuclear vacuole, which possibly contains lipid material, and appears to differentiate from the oviductal surface epithelium prior to full sexual maturation. Turkey SST epithelium was periodic-acid Schiff-negative and failed to bind four of the five lectins examined. Only winged pea agglutinin, which has an affinity for fucose-containing glycosidic residues, bound to some individual SST epithelial cells. Short-term cultures of oviductal mucosae containing SST showed aggregates of sperm associated with the spaces between adjacent folds and in surface openings assumed to be SST.
禽输卵管中储存精子的解剖学基础是精子储存小管（SST）。在火鸡中，它由单层柱状上皮组成，其特征是有一个核上空泡，可能含有脂质物质，并且似乎在完全性成熟之前就从输卵管表面上皮分化而来。火鸡SST上皮对过碘酸希夫反应呈阴性，并且不能结合所检测的五种凝集素中的四种。只有对含岩藻糖糖苷残基有亲和力的四棱豆凝集素能与一些单个的SST上皮细胞结合。含有SST的输卵管黏膜短期培养显示，精子聚集体与相邻皱襞之间的间隙以及假定为SST的表面开口有关。
