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Progesterone stimulates fibronectin production by chicken granulosa-cells in-vitro

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authors

  • Asem, E. K.
  • Conkright, Michael
  • Novero, R. P.

publication date

  • February 1994

journal

  • European Journal of Endocrinology  Journal

abstract

  • Experiments were conducted in vitro to examine the effect of progesterone on fibronectin production by chicken ovarian granulosa cells. Granulosa cells isolated from the largest (F1; mature) and third-largest (F3; developing) preovulatory follicles as well as form a pool of immature small yellow follicles (SYF) of the domestic chicken ovary were incubated in serum-free Medium-199 and the amounts of fibronectin and progesterone produced were quantified by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and radioimmunoassay respectively. The amounts of basal fibronectin and progesterone produced by granulosa cells from F1, F3 and SYF follicles increased with advancing stages of follicular development. Thus, the quantity of basal fibronectin secreted by granulosa cells was directly proportional to the amount of progesterone produced by them. Exogenously supplied progesterone increased the amount of fibronectin secreted by F1 and F3 cells in a dose-dependent manner, but its effect on SYF cells was marginal. Cyanoketone (an inhibitor of progesterone synthesis) suppressed basal fibronectin production by F1 and F3 granulosa cells and its inhibitory action was reversed by exogenous progesterone. The progesterone antagonist RU 486 also attenuated basal fibronectin production by F1 and F3 granulosa cells, but only the highest concentration affected SYF cells. The inhibitory effect of RU 486 was diminished in the presence of exogenous progesterone. These data show that progesterone regulates fibronectin production by chicken granulosa cells. They suggest that in avian granulosa cells, endogenous progesterone can stimulate fibronectin synthesis in an intracrine or autocrine manner.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Cell Differentiation
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Chickens
  • Culture Media, Serum-Free
  • Cyanoketone
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Female
  • Fibronectins
  • Granulosa Cells
  • Mifepristone
  • Ovarian Follicle
  • Progesterone
  • Regression Analysis
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0804-4643

PubMed ID

  • 8130891
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 159

end page

  • 165

volume

  • 130

issue

  • 2

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