Apoptotic cell death during the estrous cycle in the rat uterus and vagina

Anatomical Record

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 76-83

  Sato, Tomomi ^a   Fukazawa, Yugo ^a   Kojima, Hiromi ^a   Enari, Masato ^a   Iguchi, Taisen ^a   Ohta, Yasuhiko ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

apoptosis; estrous cycle; rat; uterus; vagina

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGINA EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031002811     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199705)248:1<76::AID-AR9>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Allen, E. 1922 The estrous cycle in the mouse. Am. J. Anat., 30:297-371.
2. Alles, A., K. Alley, J.C. Barrett, R. Buttyan, A. Columbano, F.O. Cope, E.A. Copelan, R.C. Duke, P.B. Farel, L.E. Gershenson, D. Goldgaber, D.R. Green, K.V. Honn, J. Hully, J.T. Isaacs, J.F.R. Kerr, P.H. Krammer, R.A. Lockshin, D.P. Martin, D.J. Mcconkey, J. Michaelson, R. Schulete-Hermann, A.C. Server, B. Szende, L.D. Tomei, T.R. Tritton, S.R. Umansky, K. Valerie, and H.R. Warner 1991 Apoptosis: A general comment. FASEB J., 5:2127-2128.
3. Ben-Sasson, S.A., Y. Sherman, and Y. Gavrieli 1995 Identification of dying cells - In situ staining. In: Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 46: Cell Death. L.M. Schwartz and B.A. Osborne, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 29-39.
4. Bertalanfy, F.D., and C. Lau 1963 Mitotic rates, renewal times and cytodynamics of the female genital tract epithelia in the rat. Acta Anat., 54:39-81.
5. Bronson, F.H., C.P. Dagg, and G.D. Snell 1968 Reproduction. In: Biology of the Laboratory Mouse. Dover Publications, New York, pp. 187-204.
6. Carlborg, L.G. 1966 Quantitative determination of sialic acids in the mouse vagina. Endocrinology, 78:1093-1099.
7. Cohen, G.M., X.-M. Sun, R.T. Snowden, D. Dinsdale, and D.N. Skilleter 1992 Key morphological features of apoptosis may occur in the absence of internucleosomal DNA fragmentation. Biochem. J., 286:331-334.
8. De, M., T.R. Sanford, and G.W. Wood 1992 Interleukin-1, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor a are produced in the mouse uterus during the estrous cycle and are induced by estrogen and progesterone. Dev. Biol., 151:297-305.
9. Gavrieli, Y., Y. Sherman, and S. Ben-Sasson 1992 Identification of programmed cell death in situ via specific labeling of nuclear DNA fragmentation. J. Cell Biol., 119:493-501.
10. Gerschenson, L.E., and R.J. Rotello 1992 Apoptosis: a different type of cell death. FASEB J., 6:2450-2455.
11. Han, H., T.A. Iwanaga, Y. Uchiyama, and T. Fujita 1993 Aggregation of macrophages in the tips of intestinal villi in guinea pigs: their possible role in the phagocytosis of effete epithelial cells. Cell Tissue Res., 271:407-416.
12. Hopwood, D., and D.A. Levison 1976 Atrophy and apoptosis in the cyclical human endometrium. J. Pathol., 119:159-166.
13. Iwanaga, T., H. Han, K. Adachi, and T. Fujita 1993 A novel mechanism for disposing of effete epithelial cells in the small intestine of guinea pigs. Gastroenterology, 105:1089-1097.
14. Iwanaga, T., H. Han, O. Hoshi, H. Takahashi-Iwanaga, and T. Fujita 1994 Perforin-containing lymphocytes and their ultrastructure in the intestinal mucosa with special reference to species difference between the guinea pig and rat. Biomed. Res., 15:67-76.
15. Kerr, J.F.R., A.H. Wyllie, and A.R. Currie 1972 Apoptosis: A basic biological phenomenon with wide ranging implications in tissue kinetics. Br. J. Cancer, 26:239-257.
16. Long, J.A., and H.M. Evans 1922 The estrous cycle in the rat and its associated phenomena. Mem. Univ. California, 6:1-128.
17. McCall, C.A., and J.J. Cohen 1991 Programmed cell death in terminally differentiating keratinocytes: role of endogenous endonuclease. J. Invest. Dermatol., 97:111-114.
18. Ohta, Y. 1995 Sterility in neonatally androgenized female rats and the decidual cell reaction. Int. Rev. Cytol., 160:1-52.
19. Otsuki, Y., O. Misaki, O. Sugimoto, Y. Ito, Y. Tsujimoto, and Y. Akao 1994 Cyclic bcl-2 gene expression in human uterine endometrium during menstrual cycle. Lancet, 343:28-29.
20. Roby, K., and J. Hunt 1994 Mouse endometrial tumor necrosis factor-α mRNA and protein: Localization and regulation by estradiol and progesterone. Endocrinology, 135:2780-2789.
21. Rotello, R.J., M.B. Hocker, and L.E. Gerschenson 1989 Biochemical evidence for programmed cell death in rabbit uterine epithelium. Am. J. Pathol., 134:491-495.
22. Rotello, R.J., R.C. Lieberman, R.B. Lepoff, and L.E. Gerschenson 1992 Characterization of uterine epithelium apoptotic cell death kinetics and regulation by progesterone and RU 486. Am. J. Pathol., 140:449-456.
23. Rumpel, E., H. Michna, and W. Kühnel 1995 PCNA-immunoreactivity in the uterus of rats after treatment with the antiestrogen tamoxifen. Ann. Anat., 177:133-138.
24. Sandow, B.A., N.B. West, R.L. Norman, and R.M. Brenner 1979 Hormonal control of apoptosis in hamster uterine luminal epithelium. Am. J. Anat., 156:15-36.
25. Sato, T., Y. Fukazawa, H. Kojima, Y. Ohta, Y. Tomooka, and T. Iguchi 1996 Apoptotic cell death in mouse uterus and vagina. Proc. 10th Int. Cong. Endocrinol., San Francisco, pp. 1-254.
26. Schwartzman, R.A., and J.A. Cidlowski 1993 Apoptosis: the biochemistry and molecular biology of programmed cell death. Endocrine Rev., 14:133-151.
27. Searle, J., J.F.R. Kerr, and C.J. Bishop 1982 Necrosis and apoptosis: distinct modes of cell death with fundamentally different significance. Pathol. Ann., 17:229-259.
28. Short, R.V. 1972 Role of hormones in sex cycle. In: Reproduction in Mammals, Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 42-72.
29. Spornitz, U.M., B.P. Rinderknecht, A. Edelmann, B. Scheidegger, and F. Cairoli 1994 Ultrastructure as a basis for dating of rat endometrium. Anat. Rec., 238:163-176.
30. Suzuki, A., M. Enari, Y. Abe, Y. Ohta, and T. Iguchi 1996 Effect of ovariectomy on histological change and protein expression in female mouse reproductive tracts. In Vivo, 10:103-110.
31. Tabibzadeh, S., Q.F. Kong, P.G. Satyaswaroop, E. Zupi, D. Marconi, C. Romanini, and S. Kapur 1994 Distinct regional and menstrual cycle dependent distribution of apoptosis in human endometrium. potential regulatory role of T cells and TNF-α. Endocrine J., 2:87-95.
32. Tabibzadeh, S., E. Zupi, A. Babaknia, R. Liu, D. Marconi, and C. Romanini 1995 Site and menstrual cycle-dependent expression of proteins of the tumour necrosis factor (TNF) receptor family, and BCL-2 oncoprotein and phase-specific production of TNFα in human endometrium. Human Reprod., 10:277-286.
33. Terada, N., R. Yamamoto, T. Takeda, T. Miyake, N. Terakawa, H. Wakimoto, H. Taniguchi, W. Li, Y. Kitamura, and K. Matsumoto 1989 Inhibitory effect of progesterone on cell death of mouse uterine epithelium. J. Steroid Biochem., 33:1091-1096.
34. Terada, N., R. Yamamoto, T. Takeda, H. Taniguchi, N. Terakawa, W. Li, Y. Kitamura, and K. Matsumoto 1990 Inhibitory effect of androgen on cell death of mouse uterine epithelium. J. Steroid Biochem., 36:305-310.
35. Thompson, E.B. 1994 Apoptosis and steroid hormones. Mol. Endocrinol., 8:665-673.
36. Tilly, J.L., and A.J.W. Hsueh 1993 Microscale autoradiographic method for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of apoptotic DNA fragmentation. J. Cell. Physiol., 154:519-526.
37. Wyllie, A.H., J.F.R. Kerr, and A.R. Currie 1980 Cell death: the significance of apoptosis. Int. Rev. Cytol., 68:251-306.