U.S. Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, Nebraska
Date of this Version
2007
Abstract
1. Currently there remains contradictory intortliation on the localisation and possible roleof alkaline phosphatase (AP) in the chicken and Japanese quail oviducts.
2.Using turkeys with a hard-shelled egg in their uteri, vaginal and uterovaginal junction mucosae werestretched and fixed as whole mounts prior to the Imistochemical localisation of All activity.
3.Scattered All reactive cells were observed in the vaginal and uteiovaginal junction surface epitheliaand intense All reactivity of the sperm-storage tubule (SST) epithelium, localised to its apical border.
4.We suggest that such All in hens in egg production may reflect cell dif.ftreiitiation andproliferation in the vagina and SST and possibly a mechanism lor the transfer of lipid from the SSTepithelia to resident sperm.
Comments
Published in British Poultry Science, Volume 48, Number 4 (August. 2007), pp. 515-518. DOI: 10.1080/00071660701381761