Reproductive Research Papers 2001-2002

1. WG Breed (2001) How does sperm meet egg in mammals? An electron microscopists' view of how new life begins. Journal of Electron Microscopical Society of Thailand 15, 3-6.
2. NJ Cooper, RV McLean, CM Leigh and WG Breed (2001) Glycoconjugates on the surface of epididymal spermatozoa in a marsupial, the brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula. Reproduction 122, 165-176.
3. K Jahnukramen ,M Han ,C Petersen ,BP Setchell and O Soder (2001) Intratesticular transplantation of testicular cells from leukemic rats causes transmission of leukemia. Cancer Research 61, 706-710.
4. CK Jansson , BP Setchell , N Martimeller , K Svechnikor and O Soden (2001) Endotoxin-induced expression in testicular macrophages is accompanied by downregulation of the constitutive expression in Sertoli cells. Cytokine 14, 283-288
5. EJ Peirce and WG Breed (2001). A comparative study of sperm production in two species of Australian arid zone rodents (Pseudomys australis, Notomys alexis) with marked differences in testes size. Reproduction 121, 239-247.
6. M Ricci and WG Breed (2001) Isolation and partial characterisation of the outer dense fibres and fibrous sheath from the sperm tail of a marsupial: the brushtail possum. Reproduction 121: 373-388
7. BP Setchell , L Ploen and EM Ritzen (2001) Reaction of long-term effects of local heating of the testis by treatment of rats with a GnRH agonist and an anti-androgen. Reproduction 122, 255-263.
8. BP Setchell (2001) Physiologie de la barriere sang-testicule. Andrologie in press
9. WG Breed, CM Leigh, and M Ricci (2000). The structural organisation of sperm head components of the wombat and koala (Superfamily: Vombatoidea): an enigma amoungst marsupials. Journal of Anatomy 198: 57-56.
10. WG Breed, DA Taggart , HDM Moore (2002) Sperm maturation and fertilization in Australian and American insectivorous marsupials. Predators with pouches: the biology of carnivorous marsupials Ch:9 (Eds M Jones, C Dickman & M Archer)
11. WG Breed, RM Hope, OW Wiebken, S Spargo, JC Chapman (2002) Structural organisation and evolution of the marsupial zona pellucida. Reproduction 123: 13-21
12. Worawittayawong P, Sretarugsa P, Leigh CM, Breed WG (2002) Is the highly divergent sperm nuclear shape in Bandicoot rats due to unusual process of chromatin condensation. Journal of Electron Microscopy Society Thailand, Vol 16 no 1 : 94-95
13. DA Taggart, G Shimmin, C Dickman & WG Breed (2002). Reproductive biology of carnivorous marsupials: clues to likelihood of sperm competition. In Predators with pouches: the biology of carnivorous marsupials. (Eds M Jones, C Dickman & M Archer) Ch 24 pp 354-371.
14. WG Breed, CM Leigh, GN Bronner, & CT Chimimba (2002). Spermiogenesis in the southern African Tete Veld Rat Aethomys ineptus Proc 9th Int Symp on Spermatology Eds G van der Horst et al Monduzzi Editore Int Proceedings Division pp 7-11.
15. WG Breed (2002). Variation in Sperm Form in Rats and Mice (Subfamily Murinae) Proc 9th Int Symp on Spermatology Eds van der Horst et al Monduzzi Editore Int Proceedings Division pp 269-274.
16. H Moore, K Dvorakova, N Jenkins, W Breed (2002). Exceptional sperm cooperation in the wood mouse Nature 418: 174-177.
17. CA Swann, RM Hope, WG Breed (2002). cDNA nucleotide sequence encoding the ZPC protein of Australian hydromyine rodents: a novel sequence of the sperm combining site within the family Muridae. Zygote 10: 291-299.
18. Setchell BP, Pakarinen P and Huhtaniemi I (2002) How much LH do the Leydig cell see? Journal of Endocrinology 175, 375-382.
19. Gustafsson K, Sultana T, Zetterstrom CK, Setchell BP, Siddiqui A, Weber G and Soder O (2002) Production and secretion of interleukin-1ý proteins byrat testis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 297, 492-497.