Apoptosis in the human uterine endometrium during the menstrual cycle

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4144-4147

  Kokawa, Katsuji ^a   Shikone, Toshihiko ^a   Nakano, Ryosuke ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UTERUS;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMANS; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0029836907     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.11.4144     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Raff MC. 1992 Social controls on cell survival and cell death. Nature. 356:397-400.
2. Singh N, Anand S. 1994 Cell death by apoptosis. Ind J Exp Biol. 32:843-847.
3. Err JFR, Wyllie AH, Currie AR. 1972 Apoptosis: a basic biological phenomenon with wide-ranging implications in tissue kinetics. Br J Cancer. 26:239-257.
4. Arends MJ, Morris RG, Wyllie AH. 1990 Apoptosis: the role of the endonuclease. Am J Pathol. 136:593-608.
5. Tilly JL. 1993 Ovarian follicular atresia: a model to study the mechanisms of physiological cell death. Endocr J. 1:67-72.
6. Schwartzman RA, Cidlowski JA. 1993 Apoptosis: the biochemistry and molecular biology of programmed cell death. Endocr Rev. 14:133-151.
7. Palumbo A, Yeh J. 1994 In situ localization of apoptosis in the rat ovary during follicular atresia. Biol Reprod. 51:888-895.
8. Hsueh AJW, Billig H, Tsafriri A. 1994 Ovarian follicle atresia: a hormonally controlled apoptotic process. Endocr Rev. 15:707-724.
9. Slayden OD, Brenner RM. 1994 RU 486 action after estrogen priming in the endometrium and oviducts of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 78:440-448.
10. Shikone T, Billig H, Hsueh AJW. 1994 Experimentally induced cryptorchidism increases apoptosis in rat testis. Biol Reprod. 51:865-872.
11. English HF, Kyprianou N, Isaacs JT. 1989 Relationship between DNA fragmentation and apoptosis in the programmed cell death in the rat prostate following castration. Prostate. 15:233-250.
12. Martikainen P, Isaacs JT. 1990 An organ culture system for the study of programmed cell death in the rat ventral prostate. Endocrinology. 127:1268-1277.
13. Pollard JW, Pacey J, Cheng SVY, Jordan EG. 1987 Estrogens and cell death in murine uterine luminal epithelium. Cell Tissue Res. 249:533-540.
14. Nawaz S, Lynch MP, Galand P, Gerschenson LE. 1987 Hormonal regulation of cell death in rabbit uterine epithelium. Am J Pathol. 127:51-59.
15. Rotello RJ, Hocker MB, Gerschenson LE. 1989 Biochemical evidence for programmed cell death in rabbit uterine epithelium. Am J Pathol. 134:491-495.
16. Shikone T, Yamoto M, Kokawa K, Yamasita K, Nisimori K, Nakano R. 1996 Apoptosis of human corpora lutea during cyclic luteal regression and early pregnancy. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 81:2376-2380.
17. Hopwood D, Levison DA. 1976 Atrophy and apoptosis in the cyclical human endometrium. J Pathol. 119:159-166.
18. Noyes RW, Hertig AT, Rock J. 1950 Dating of the endometrial biopsy. Fertil Steril. 1:3-25.
19. Cornillie FJ, Lauweryns JM, Brosens IA. 1985 Normal human endometrium. Gynecol Obstet Invest. 20:113-129.
20. Markee JE. 1940 Menstruation in intraocular endometrial transplants in the rhesus monkey. Contrib Embryol. 28:219-308.
21. Speroff L, Vande Wiele RL. 1971 Regulation of the human menstrual cycle. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 109:234-247.
22. Tilly JL, Hsueh AJW. 1993 Microscale autoradiographic method for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of apoptotic DNA fragmentation. J Cell Physiol. 154:519-526.
23. Ferguson DJP, Anderson TJ. 1981 Morphological evaluation of cell turnover in relation to the menstrual cycle in the "resting" human breast. Br J Cancer. 44:177-182.
24. Williams GT. 1991 Programmed cell death: apoptosis and oncogenesis. Cell. 65:1097-1098.
25. Cohen JJ, Duke RC, Fadok VA, Sellins KS. 1992 Apoptosis and programmed cell death in immunity. Annu Rev Immunol. 10:267-293.
26. Otsuki Y, Misaki O, Sugimoto O, Ito Y, Tsujimoto Y, Akao Y. 1994 Cyclic bcl-2 gene expression in human uterine endometrium during menstrual cycle. Lancet. 344:28-29.
27. Compel A, Sabourin JC, Martin A, Yaneva H, Audouin J, Decroix Y, Poitout P. 1994 Bcl-2 expression in normal endometrium during the menstrual cycle. Am J Pathol. 144:1195-1202.
28. Thompson EB. 1994 Apoptosis and steroid hormones. Mol Endocrinol. 18:665-673.
29. Kyprianou N, English HF, Isaacs JT. 1990 Programmed cell death during regression of PC-82 human prostate cancer following androgen ablation. Cancer Res. 50:3748-3753.
30. Colombel M, Olsson CA, Ng PY, Buttyan R. 1992 Hormone-regulated apoptosis results from reentry of differentiated prostate cells onto a defective cell cycle. Cancer Res. 52:4313-4319.
31. Guerrero R, Landgren BM, Montiel R, Cekan Z, Diczfalusy E. 1975 Unconjugated steroids in the human endometrium. Contraception. 11:169-177.
32. Fung HYM, Wong YL, Wong FWS, Rogers MS. 1994 Study of oestrogen and progesterone receptors in normal human endometrium during the menstrual cycle by immunocytochemical analysis. Gynecol Obstet Invest. 38:186-190.
33. Rotello RJ, Lieberman RC, Purchio AF, Gerschenson LE. 1991 Coordinated regulation of apoptosis and cell proliferation by transforming growth factor β1 in cultured uterine epithelial cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 88:3412-3415.
34. Moulton BC. 1994 Transforming growth factor-β stimulates endometrial stromal apoptosis in vitro. Endocrinology. 134:1055-1060.
35. Frank GR, Brar AK, Jikihara H, Cedars MI, Handwerger S. 1995 Interleukin-1β and the endometrium: an inhibitor of stromal cell differentiation and possible autoregulator or decidualization in humans. Biol Reprod. 52:184-191.