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Progesterone dependent uptake of uteroglobin by rabbit endometrium

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Unlabeled or3H-labeled UGL, isolated from rabbit lungs, was injected intraluminally into the uteri of ovariectomized low dose progesterone substituted and unsubstituted animals as well as into mated animals on the fifth day of pregnancy. It was offered to the endometrium, in this last case, in competition with endogenously synthesized UGL.3H-labeled IgG served as a control. The animals were killed 24 h after the experiment.

Immunohistograms and autoradiograms showed that UGL was taken up by the whole endometrium of the ovariectomized animals but only when progesterone was present. In the preimplantation uterus, uptake was limited to clusters of smaller cells accumulated in the lumen adjacent to the epithelium, whereas IgG remained within the uterine lumen, forming a dense layer on the endometrial surface.

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Bochskanl, R., Thie, M. & Kirchner, C. Progesterone dependent uptake of uteroglobin by rabbit endometrium. Histochemistry 80, 581–589 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02400976

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