Research on The Regulation Mechanism of Exosomes on Testicular Microenvironment and Its Application Progress
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1) College of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China;2) Andrology Laboratory, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China;3) The First Clinical College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China;4) Hunan Medical College, Huaihua 418000, China;5) Guangxi Scientific Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530200, China;6.6) The First Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410007, China

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This work was supported by grants from The National Natural Science Foundation of China (82074444, 81673984), the Special Funds for the Construction of Innovative Provinces in Hunan - “Huxiang Young Talents” Support Program (2019RS2041), the Key Projects of Hunan Provincial Department of Education (20A368), Changsha Science and Technology Plan Project—Changsha Outstanding Innovative Youth Training Program (kq1802015), the Hunan Province High-level Health Talents 225 Engineering Medical Discipline Backbone Talent Training Object (Xiang Wei Han [2019] 196), the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine “Young Talent Support Project” of the China Association of Chinese Medicine (2019-QNRC2-C07), the Hunan University of Chinese Medicine First-class Discipline of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Open Fund (2020ZXYJH64), and the Hunan University of Chinese Medicine Graduate Innovation Project (2022CX09).

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    Exosomes are a class of small vesicles composed of bioactive bilayer lipids, which can carry different types of information substances and bind to recipient cells. Through information transmission and substance exchange, exosomes can induce changes in the phenotype of recipient cells. This article summarized the various mechanisms of exosomes in maintaining testicular microenvironment homeostasis, such as promoting cell proliferation in the testicular microenvironment by regulating cytokines, regulating cellular immunity to maintain the testis immune environment, regulating oxidative stress to repair the recipient cell function, regulating autophagy to improve spermatogenesis, regulating cell apoptosis to improve spermatogenesis, and regulating cytokines to influence testosterone secretion. Then, the preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic effects of exosomes in andrology diseases were highlighted. Exosomes have obvious advantages in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility, erectile dysfunction, varicocele, hypogonadism, prostate cancer and other diseases. With the continuous advance in exosome engineering, exosome extraction, as well as research on the related mechanisms, the clinical application of exosomes, as an emerging applied substance, is expected to become a new treatment approach for andrological diseases.

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LI Bo-Nan, NING Gang, SUN Tian-Song, WU Hui, HE Qing-Hu, TANG Qian-Li, ZHOU Xing. Research on The Regulation Mechanism of Exosomes on Testicular Microenvironment and Its Application Progress[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,2022,49(12):2328-2341

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  • Received:June 26,2022
  • Revised:October 19,2022
  • Accepted:August 18,2022
  • Online: December 20,2022
  • Published: December 20,2022