Regulation of Growth Hormone Secretion in Human Trophoblastic Cells in Culture

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In this study, we have cultured in vitro purified trophoblastic cells from first-trimester and term human placenta. These cells were obtained by specific enzymatic digestion and centrifugation through a Percoll gradient. Using 2 specific monoclonal antibodies, the pituitary 22-kD growth hormone (GH) and the placental GH variant were assayed in the culture medium by radioimmunoassay. After 48 h of culture, only the placental GH variant was measured in the medium corresponding to first-trimester placenta (3.4 ng/24 h/10<sup>5</sup> cells). Surprisingly, an immunoactivity pattern of pituitary GH type was found in 3 out of 5 media conditioned with term placenta cells, while GH immunoactivity was very low, around the detection level, in the 2 others. These secretions are not modified with the time in culture and the state of differentiation of the cells from cytotrophoblast to syncytiotrophoblast. Neither in early nor in term placenta does the addition of GH-releasing factor (10<sup>-6</sup> M in the culture medium) stimulate the secretion of pituitary 22-kD GH or placental GH variant.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): HRE

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Horm Res Paediatr

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1663-2818

Title: Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1663-2818

ISSN (Electronic): 1663-2826

Publication date Subscription-year: 1990

Publication date (Print): 1990

Publication date (Electronic): 02 December 2008

Volume: 33

Issue: 6

Pages: 256-259

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^aLaboratoire de Physiopathologie du Développement, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; ^bLaboratoire d’Endocrinologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Liège, Belgique

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Publisher ID: 181530 Other ID: Horm Res 1990;33:256–259

DOI: 10.1159/000181530

PubMed ID: 2289784

SO-VID: 88ba00e4-614b-4d57-86a0-a3bb777ea7a9

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Date received : 14 February 1990

Date accepted : 02 May 1990

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Pages: 4

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