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Molecular Human Reproduction, Vol. 7, No. 1, 89-95, January 2001
© 2001 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

Implantation and pregnancy

Endogenous regulation of the GnRH receptor by GnRH in the human placenta

Sonja Wolfahrt1, Bernhard Kleine1, Hubertus Jarry2 and Winfried G. Rossmanith1,3

1 Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Ulm, 2 Department of Experimental Endocrinology, University of Göttingen and 3 Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Diakonissenkrankenhaus Karlsruhe, Germany

Abstract

Gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) plays an important regulatory role in the function and growth of human placenta, but its placental expression sites and co-localization with GnRH receptor (GnRH-R) are not well known. GnRH and GnRH-R expression has been found in both placenta and cultured trophoblasts; however, cultured trophoblastic cells very quickly lose GnRH-R message and subsequently receptor protein. Speculating that endogenously released GnRH induced this down-regulation, we determined GnRH-R in cultures of trophoblastic cells in the presence of a neutralizing anti-GnRH antibody. Cells incubated with this antibody showed a strong signal for the GnRH-R, while those cultured without did not (as analysed by immunofluorescence, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, protein `dot blot' and Western blotting). Furthermore, addition of the GnRH agonist buserelin led to a reduction of the receptor protein. We have therefore shown that GnRH released from trophoblastic cells down-regulates GnRH-R in these trophoblastic cells. Having previously shown that trophoblast layers were synchronously positive for GnRH and GnRH-R, these new findings support the hypothesis of an ultrashort feedback regulation of trophoblasts by GnRH involving autocrine regulation of GnRH-R.

cell culture/down-regulation/GnRH/GnRH receptor/placenta

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3 To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Diakonissenkrankenhaus Karlsruhe Diakonissenstr. 28, D-76199 Karlsruhe, Germany. E-mail: rossmanith{at}diak-ka.de


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