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The Battalion
Thursday, November2,1
A&M veterinary professor makesin
discoveries in human fertility fields
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By Melissa Naumann
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Of The Battalion Staff
A normal sperm production rate
is between 150 and 200 million a
Having a baby just got a little eas
ier. Thanks to a study by a Texas
A&M researcher in the College of
Veterinary Medicine, couples have a
better chance of knowing the best
time to conceive.
Dr. Larry Johnson, in a 1988
study conducted for the National In
stitutes of Health Institute on Aging,
found that the best time to conceive
can be figured by determining when
a man has a higher sperm count in
his ejaculate as well as when a
woman ovulates.
Johnson, who teaches histology to
first-year vet students, studied the
testes of 38 men who died from trau
matic injuries or heart failure to
avoid examining men who had low
sperm rates due to disease or sick
ness. He counted the sperm in each
testis, finding that men with higher
sperm production rates had the
same number of sperm in their epi
didymis as men with lower sperm
production rates.
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Inhibitors are released
to prevent swimming, to
make the sperm stay as
quiescent as possible until
it’s time to get in there and
fight for that egg."
— Dr. Larry Johnson,
Texas A&M Professor
day, and a low rate is considered to
be less than 50 million a day.
Johnson said the epididymis, a
structure lying between the testis
and vas deferens (part of the ejacula
tory duct) that is important in the
maturing process of sperm, is not as
efficient in moving smaller amounts
of sperm as it is in moving larger
amounts of sperm.
He compared the movement of
sperm through the epididymis to
milk in a long plastic bag. If the bag
is filled with milk and squeezed at
the bottom, a lot of the milk would
come out the first time the bag was
squeezed. As the bag is squeezed
more, less comes out, showing that
the bag operates better with more
milk in it.
This means that the sperm of men
who have lower sperm production
rates may remain in the epididymis
longer, getting older. As sperm get
older in the man’s body, they be
come less likely to survive the jour
ney through the woman's body to
fertilize the egg. In fact, to keep the
sperm calm to conserve their energy,
the epididymis releases inhibitors,
Johnson said.
“Inhibitors are released to pre
vent swimming, to make the sperm
stay as quiescent as possible until it’s
time to get in there and fight for that
egg,” he said.
Men with high sperm production
rates have sperm trial move quickly
through the epididymis, showing
that sperm maturation is not as im
portant as it was thought to lx.* or
that sperm maturation occurs more
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quickly than r ,
Johnson said. ^
In a 1982 study, Johnson
that human sperm reserves artfc n
lively small since they can be * oin
pleted quickly and then tcpb, Vt . r
quickly. Studying semen sais- /
over five days, it was necessary!y' or
the amount of sperm in each a:
stabilize. If a man had a vet)I
ually active weekend, sperm restr
would be low, while a man whohj
less active weekend would
more sperm reserves. Johnson i
termined that two days werej
essary to compute the sperm,
duction rate
“You have to stabilize the tanlj
fore you can know the produc
rate,” he said.
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this stabilization to occur sinces)
lions usually need five tosevendit ve '
Johnson said. i® vet
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sperm than others, includingakdB
and drug use and occupation. IVI
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Quaker Oats Co.,
which is defending a Texas lawsuit over health
claims of its cereals, Wednesday urged the Food
and Drug Administration to adopt uniform food
description standards.
“America needs a single, clear and scientifi
cally based national standard for food product
information,” Katherine E. Smith, vice president
of consumer affairs for Quaker Oats, said.
She and more than 40 others testified before a
four-member FDA panel conducting a public
hearing on food labeling.
The United States is moving away from uni
formity, she said, as states make different inter
pretations of federal food guidelines.
The Texas attorney general’s office sued
Quaker Oats in September, saying the nation’s
biggest seller of hot cereal misled consumers by
advertising that its product can help reduce heart
disease risk by helping reduce cholesterol.
Quaker Oats says that oats, when used as part
of a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, can help reduce
cholesterol levels even farther because of soluble
fiber and other nutrients.
Smith said consumers need national unifor
mity in ingredient and nutritional labeling and
health claims.
“It would almost be cost-prohibitive to main
tain separate production capabilities, distribution
centers, and in the end it would probably cost
consumers more to have a variety of regula
tions,” she said in an interview after her testi
mony.
while not directly mentioning the Quaker!
lawsuit, said food companies “for whatevern
son, perhaps greed . . . are unable to avoid!
ing of the facts.”
He said the recent surge in health claimsa
be traced to a 1987 FDA policy allowing expl
disease-prevention claims on food labels.
Gardner said the policy should be repealed
The Texas attorney general's office come:
that such health claims constitute deceptive
practices because not all information needed!
explain the claim can be carried on a foodM
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Oats has not set up a different labeling proce
dure for the state, but said the potential is there.
Assistant Attorney General Steve Gardner,
Wednesday’s hearing in San Antonio wa
of four being held throughout the nationtosci s
public in pm c >n new food labeling policies. ^
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Sweet dreams
Freshmen Jamie West, a general studies major from Taylor, and
Jason Day, an aerospace engineering major from Austin, sleep
outside the Academic Building Tuesday morning to get a good
place in line for honors registration, which began that day. The
photo was taken at 2:10 a.m. “If they hadn’t locked the doors we
would be inside there,” West said.
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