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Biology of Reproduction, Vol 31, 959-966, Copyright © 1984 by Society for the Study of Reproduction

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Estrogen and uterine sensitization for the decidual cell reaction in the rat: role of prostaglandin E2 and adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate

ME Johnston and TG Kennedy

The possibility that estrogen affects uterine sensitization for decidualization by altering the ability of E-series prostaglandins (PGs) to increase adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) concentrations was investigated. To determine if increased endometrial vascular permeability, a response which precedes decidualization, could be obtained in nonsensitized uteri by treatments designed to increase endometrial intracellular cAMP concentrations, cholera toxin, an activator of adenylate cyclase, was injected into the uterine lumen of immature rats pretreated with progesterone and either 0, 0.5 or 10 micrograms estrone with indomethacin to inhibit endogenous PG synthesis. Endometrial vascular permeability, determined using 125I- labeled bovine serum albumin, was assessed 8 h later. Cholera toxin produced a dose-dependent increase in endometrial vascular permeability in all groups; the uteri of rats pretreated with the optimal hormone regimen (0.5 micrograms estrone plus 2 mg progesterone) responded to a lower dose of the toxin. As determined by uterine weights and histologic examination 5 days after the intrauterine administration of cholera toxin or its vehicle, the toxin induced decidualization in rats pretreated with progesterone and 0 or 0.5 micrograms estrone, but not in those receiving 10 micrograms estrone. Cholera toxin had no detectable effect on uterine cAMP concentrations in animals sacrificed 15 min or 3 h after intrauterine treatment. The intrauterine injection of 8-Br-cAMP, with or without 3-isobutyl-1-methyl-xanthine, did not increase endometrial vascular permeability in indomethacin-treated animals pretreated with the different hormone regimens.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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