{"title":"HLA and the generation of diversity in human pregnancy.","authors":"J A McIntyre, W P Faulk","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79246,"journal":{"name":"Placenta. Supplement","volume":"4 ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17152532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Binding of antigen-antibody complexes to mononuclear phagocytes in chorionic villi of human placentae.","authors":"G W Wood, C R King","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Both endogenous placental IgG and exogenous antigen-antibody complexes are bound to stromal cells within the chorionic villi of human placentae. Both types of IgG are removed readily from placentae by washing at pH 5.0, while antibodies to placental antigens, when reacted with the villi, are not removed except under very low pH conditions (pH 2.5). Furthermore, when IgG is removed from term placentae and characterized by filtration chromatography, most of the IgG is seen to occur either as IgG fragments or as complexes of greater than 200000 relative molecular mass. This suggests that placental IgG exists as Fc gamma receptor-associated antigen-antibody complexes.</p>","PeriodicalId":79246,"journal":{"name":"Placenta. Supplement","volume":"3 ","pages":"85-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18013662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solubilization of opiate receptors from human placenta.","authors":"M S Ahmed, W L Byrne, W A Klee","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79246,"journal":{"name":"Placenta. Supplement","volume":"3 ","pages":"115-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17367838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Placental morphometric studies in diabetic pregnancies.","authors":"D B Singer, C T Liu, J A Widness, R A Ellis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Placentae from 20 pregnancies complicated by diabetes mellitus were, by morphometric analyses, similar to 20 placentae from normal patients. Since the average gestation in this study was 1.5 weeks less in the PDM group, accelerated maturity rather than retarded villous development may be inferred. Based on maternal HbAIC determinations, neonatal morbidity and macrosomia, the morphometric similarities of PDM to control placentae in this series do not appear to be explained by normalization of maternal blood glucose levels in the diabetic group.</p>","PeriodicalId":79246,"journal":{"name":"Placenta. Supplement","volume":"3 ","pages":"193-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18013877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J M Rice, G M Williams, A E Palmer, W T London, D L Sly
{"title":"Pathology of gestational choriocarcinoma induced in patas monkeys by ethylnitrosourea given during pregnancy.","authors":"J M Rice, G M Williams, A E Palmer, W T London, D L Sly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rapidly fatal neoplastic disease with histological and clinical features resembling gestational choriocarcinoma in humans has been observed in patas monkeys. Timed pregnant females were given ethylnitrosourea (ENU) intravenously at doses of 0.1 to 0.4 mmol/kg body weight, beginning on day 30 of gestation and continuing weekly for a total of 12 injections. Of 59 monkeys given ENU during pregnancy, four of 12 subjected to the highest dose and three of the remaining 47 given lower doses died of choriocarcinoma within six months of cessation of ENU exposure. Death was usually caused by exsanguinating haemorrhage. At necropsy, tumour deposits were always numerous in the lungs and were frequently observed in abdominal viscera. An obvious primary uterine tumour was never found, and only one small primary was detected grossly. Sub-endometrial masses of tumour cells were generally observed microscopically, invading the endometrial stroma and forming endovascular tumour deposits in the veins. Both uterine and extrauterine tumour deposits were highly haemorrhagic, often partially necrotic, and consisted of cytotrophoblast-like cells with frequent mitoses, a high degree of cellular pleomorphism and variable but often prominent cytoplasmic glycogen. This tumour was never seen in males or non-gravid adult females. Chorionic gonadotrophin assays conventionally used for human and macaque samples were negative in both normally pregnant and tumour-bearing patas, and did not contribute to the diagnosis. Trophoblast of patas monkeys appears highly susceptible to the carcinogenic effects of ENU and provides an animal model for gestational choriocarcinoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":79246,"journal":{"name":"Placenta. Supplement","volume":"3 ","pages":"223-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18013879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) and free alpha subunit secreted by cultured human choriocarcinoma (JEG-3) cells.","authors":"R Benveniste, A Scommegna","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cultured human choriocarcinoma JEG-3 cells secrete biologically active HCG and free HCG alpha-subunit. When compared with the alpha-subunit dissociated from HCG obtained either from pregnancy urine or JEG-3 cells, free alpha-subunit has a larger molecular weight, is more acidic and is non-functional, lacking the property to recombine with the HCG beta-subunit. The understanding of the biochemical differences observed between free alpha-subunit and alpha-subunit found in HCG is important and should help to unravel the biosynthesis of gonadotrophins. Two proteins which bind to the cell membrane, epidermal growth factor and concanavalin A, are capable of stimulating JEG-3 cell secretion. Epidermal growth factor stimulates the secretion of HCG while concanavalin A stimulates both HCG and HCG alpha-subunit secretion. Amphotericin B, an antifungal agent commonly used in tissue cultures, which also affects the cell membrane, was shown to stimulate HCG and HCG alpha-subunit secretions. The use of these agents should contribute to the understanding of membrane-related events which lead to the secretion of HCG and alpha-subunit.</p>","PeriodicalId":79246,"journal":{"name":"Placenta. Supplement","volume":"3 ","pages":"241-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18033626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterization of the transferrin-binding protein in a human trophoblast.","authors":"C A Enns, H H Sussman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The physical properties and binding characteristics of the solubilized transferrin-binding protein from BeWo cells, a human choriocarcinoma cell line, were investigated. The binding protein was isolated from 125I-labelled membranes by solubilization followed by immunoprecipitation with anti-human transferrin in the presence of saturating human transferrin. Gel filtration on acrylamide agarose (AcA-22) at 21 degrees C in the absence of transferrin indicates that the transferrin-binding protein has a Stokes' radius of 4.6 nm. In the presence of transferrin, the Stokes' radius of the transferrin-binding BeWo protein increases to 6.3 nm. Parallel sucrose density centrifugation studies indicate that the BeWo protein has a sedimentation coefficient of 9.4 S in the absence of transferrin and 10.9 S in the presence of transferrin. Relative molecular mass calculations from sedimentation studies in H2O and D2O, using the method of Sadler et al (1979), indicate a relative molecular mass of 204,000 for the solubilized receptor and 354,000 for the receptor in the presence of transferrin.</p>","PeriodicalId":79246,"journal":{"name":"Placenta. Supplement","volume":"3 ","pages":"23-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17367840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The beta-adrenergic receptor in human placenta: receptor subtype analysis (beta 1 and beta 2) and partial characterization of the solubilized receptor.","authors":"J J Moore, J A Whitsett","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79246,"journal":{"name":"Placenta. Supplement","volume":"3 ","pages":"103-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17367837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A A Levin, J R Plautz, P A di Sant'Agnese, R K Miller
{"title":"Cadmium: placental mechanisms of fetal toxicity.","authors":"A A Levin, J R Plautz, P A di Sant'Agnese, R K Miller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Subcutaneous injections of 40 mumol/kg of CdCl2 given to rats on day 18 of pregnancy produced a high incidence of fetal death and placental necrosis. Fetuses directly injected with CdCl2 in utero were resistant to cadmium levels far in excess of fetal levels associated with fetal death following maternal injection. Thus cadmium-induced fetal death was not the result of a direct effect of cadmium on the fetus. Similarly, exposure of fetuses or dams to Cd-metallothionein did not produce fetal death. Placental histological changes and high placental accumulations of cadmium suggested placental mechanisms for the toxicity. Histological changes were observed as early as 12 hours after injection and were characteristic of local circulatory responses. Blood flow measurements with radiolabelled microspheres indicated that uteroplacental blood flow was decreased 40 per cent and 75 per cent at 12-16 hours and 18-24 hours after injection. Studies on the initial responses of the placenta to cadmium exposure revealed that biochemical and ultrastructural changes could be observed in the placenta prior to alterations in blood flow and fetal death. No ultrastructural changes were observed in the uterine vascular endothelium. Thus cadmium-induced fetal death was not the result of direct effects of cadmium but may be the result of a placental effect of the heavy metal. A proposed mechanism for the induction of fetal death is that high placental accumulations of cadmium result in trophoblastic damage which leads to a local circulatory response to the injured tissues and a decrease in uteroplacental blood flow. It is the decrease in nutrient and oxygen transport to the fetus that results from trophoblastic damage and blood flow alterations that ultimately induce fetal death.</p>","PeriodicalId":79246,"journal":{"name":"Placenta. Supplement","volume":"3 ","pages":"303-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18013656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}