Hormonal control of enzyme activity during the plasma membrane transformation of uterine epithelial cells.
Cell Biol Int
; 25(9): 859-71, 2001.
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ABSTRACT
Ultrastructural and light microscopic catalytic histochemical methods were used to study the distribution and changes in distribution of four phosphatase enzymes; alkaline phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase, thiamine pyrophosphatase and adenosine triphosphatase in uterine epithelial cells in response to the ovarian hormones, oestrogen, progesterone or a combination of both used in different regimes on ovariectomised rats. Reaction product for all four enzymes was clearly localised in the epithelial cells, especially with oestrogen priming. However, the four enzymes showed markedly different patterns of organisation of reaction product in response to other hormonal treatments. Our findings clearly show that the expression of these enzymes is under ovarian hormonal control. However, while all of the enzymes are upregulated by oestrogen, the response to progesterone is variable, which can upregulate or downregulate different enzymes. The findings are particularly obvious at the electron microscopic level on the apical plasma membrane of the uterine epithelial cells, which was the main focus of our study.
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Assunto principal:
Progesterona
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Útero
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Membrana Celular
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Células Epiteliais
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Estrogênios
Limite:
Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cell Biol Int
Ano de publicação:
2001
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Article