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The effect of bone-marrow transplantation on decidua formation in pseudopregnant rats

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A main cause of failed pregnancy is insolvency of the decidual reaction of endometrial cells. It is believed that bone-marrow cells (BMCs) are a partial source of decidual cells in endometrial tissue. In the present work, the effect is studied of transplantation of BMCs on the desidualization processes using the model of pseudopregnancy in rats. BMCs were flushed from rat femurs and tibias. On the fifth day of pseudopregnancy, a suspension of single BMCs was injected into one of the uterine horns. PBS injection into the contralateral horn without cells served as control. Rats were sacrificed on the 11th day of pseudopregnancy. The diameter in the meso-antimesometral direction in the experimental uterine horn increased by 1.5–2 times compared to the control horn. The weight of decidual tissue in the experimental horn was three times greater than the weight of the control horn. The presence of transplanted BMCs in decidual tissue was documented by preliminary double-staining of BMCs with membrane dye PKH26 Red and nuclear dye Hoechst 33342. Histological analysis of decidua sections after transplantation did not reveal any alterations in cell differentiation or tissue structure. We concluded that transplantation of BMCs stimulated decidualization in animals.

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Abbreviations

BMC:

bone marrow cell

LDC:

large decidual cell

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  1. Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. P. Domnina, V. M. Mikhailov & N. N. Nikolsky

  2. St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    N. N. Nikolsky

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Original Russian Text © A.P. Domnina, V.M. Mikhailov, N.N. Nikolsky, 2014, published in Tsitologiya, 2014, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 268–272.

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Domnina, A.P., Mikhailov, V.M. & Nikolsky, N.N. The effect of bone-marrow transplantation on decidua formation in pseudopregnant rats. Cell Tiss. Biol. 8, 299–303 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990519X14040038

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