The effect of insulin-like growth factor-I, relaxin and luteinizing hormone on vascular endothelial growth factor secretion by cultured endometrial stromal cells on different days of early pregnancy in pigs

Reproductive Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-170

  Kaczmarek, Monika M ^a   Blitek, Agnieszka ^a   Schams, Dieter ^b   Ziecik, Adam J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Early pregnancy; Endometrium; VEGF secretion

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE; SUS;

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RELAXIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SECRETION; STROMA CELL; SWINE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RELAXIN; STROMAL CELLS; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 54449100108     PISSN: 1642431X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1642-431X(12)60011-4     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Allen W, Gower S, Wilsher S 2007 Immunohistochemical localization of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its two receptors (Flt-I and KDR) in the endometrium and placenta of the mare during the oestrous cycle and pregnancy. Reproduction in Domestic Animals 42 516-526.
2. Berisha B, Schams D, Kosmann M, Amselgruber W, Einspanier R 2000 Expression and tissue concentration of vascular endothelial growth factor, its receptors, and localization in the bovine corpus luteum during estrous cycle and pregnancy. Biology of Reproduction 63 1106-1114.
3. Blitek A, Ziecik AJ 2004 Prostaglandins F and E secretion by porcine epithelial and stromal endometrial cells on different days of the oestrous cycle. Reproduction in Domestic Animals 39 340-346.
4. Bradford MM 1976 A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Analytical Biochemistry 72 248-254.
5. Ferrara N, Gerber HP, LeCouter J 2003 The biology of VEGF and its receptors. Nature Medicine 9 669-676.
6. Fraser HM, Lunn SF 2000 Angiogenesis and its control in the female reproductive system. British Medical Bulletin 56 787-797.
7. Geisert RD, Brenner RM, Moffatt RJ, Harney JP, Yellin T, Bazer FW 1993 Changes in oestrogen receptor protein, mRNA expression and localization in the endometrium of cyclic and pregnant gilts. Reproduction, Fertility, and Development 5 247-260.
8. Kaczmarek MM, Waclawik A, Blitek A, Kowalczyk AE, Schams D, Ziecik AJ 2008 Expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor-receptor system in the porcine endometrium throughout the estrous cycle and early pregnancy. Molecular Reproduction and Development 75 362-372.
9. Klotz DM, Hewitt SC, Ciana P, Raviscioni M, Lindzey JK, Foley J, Maggi A, DiAugustine RP, Korach KS 2002 Requirement of estrogen receptor-alpha in insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1)-induced uterine responses and in vivo evidence for IGF-1/estrogen receptor cross-talk. Journal of Biological Chemistry 277 8531-8537.
10. Koos RD, Pillai SB 2001 Intersection of the relaxin and estrogen signaling pathways in the uterus. Relaxin 2000, pp 101-108. Eds Tregear G, Ivell R, Bathgate RA, Wade JD. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
11. Koos RD, Kazi AA, Roberson MS, Jones JM 2005 New insight into the transcriptional regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor expression in the endometrium by estrogen and relaxin. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1041 233-247.
12. Persson E, Sahlin L, Masironi B, Dantzer V, Eriksson H, Rodriguez-Martinez H 1997 Insulin-like growth factor-I in the porcine endometrium and placenta: localization and concentration in relation to steroid influence during early pregnancy. Animal Reproduction Science 46 261-281.
13. Simmen FA, Simmen RC, Geisert RD, Martinat-Botte F, Bazer FW, Terqui M 1992 Differential expression, during the estrous cycle and pre- and postimplantation conceptus development, of messenger ribonucleic acids encoding components of the pig uterine insulin-like growth factor system. Endocrinology 130 1547-1556.
14. Winther H, Ahmed A, Dantzer V 1999 Immunohistochemical localization of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its two specific receptors, Flt-1 and KDR, in the porcine placenta and non-pregnant uterus. Placenta 20 35-43.