ICI 182,780 acts as a partial agonist and antagonist of estradiol effects in specific cells of the sheep uterus |
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Authors: | Jane A Robertson Yuhua Zhang Nancy H Ing |
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Institution: | a Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2471, USA b Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health and Center for Animal Biotechnology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2471, USA |
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Abstract: | We assessed the ability of ICI 182,780 (ICI) to block the estradiol (E2) responses of genes within the sheep uterus. Ovariectomized ewes in the ‘ICI+E2’ treatment group received a uterine infusion with 10?7 M ICI for 14 h, an injection of 50 μg E2 6 h after the infusion started, and were hysterectomized 18 h postinjection. Other groups received only ICI or E2, or neither treatment (‘Con’). Both E2 and ICI increased the wet weight of dissected endometrium: averaging 10.0±1.2 g for ICI+E2, ICI, and E2 groups compared to 6.8±0.6 g for Con. Slot blot analyses of endometrial RNA showed that estrogen receptor- (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), cyclophilin, actin and c-fos mRNAs responded to E2 treatment: the first five increased an average of 60% while the last decreased 38%. In situ hybridization identified more subtle ICI effects: agonistic up-regulation of GAPDH mRNA in superficial endometrial cells, and antagonistic down-regulation of ER and PR mRNAs in the inner layer of the myometrium. Thus, we conclude that the agonist versus antagonist effects of ICI relative to those of E2 are a function of the gene examined as well as the specific cell within the uterus. |
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Keywords: | ICI 182 780 Estradiol Uterus |
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