CDRI-85/287 is an anti-estrogen and interferes with decidualization in the rat uterus. In this study, uterine estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) levels were determined during the inhibition of decidualization. The effect of 85/287 on uterine ornithine decarboxylate (ODC) activity (a marker enzyme for decidualization) was also studied, using immature ovariectomized rats divide...

Embryo implantation, endometrial stromal cell decidualization and formation of a functional placenta are critical processes in the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy. Interleukin (IL)-11 signalling is essential for adequate decidualization in the mouse uterus and IL-11 promotes decidualization in the human. IL-11 action is mediated via binding to the specific IL-11 receptor alpha (IL-11...

Progesterone receptor and estrogen receptor participate in growth and differentiation of the different rat decidual regions. Steroid hormone receptor antagonists were used to study steroid regulation of decidualization. Here we describe a suppressive interaction between progesterone receptor (onapristone) and estrogen receptor (ICI182780) antagonists and their relation to a rescue phenomenon wi...

Decidualization of the endometrial stromal cells (ESC), considered to be stimulated by progesterone and/or cAMP, is crucial for embryo implantation and placentation. In this study, we isolated a novel clone encoding decidual protein induced by progesterone (Depp) from a human ESC cDNA library enriched with progesterone-inducible genes. Depp mRNA was expressed in various human tissues including ...

Increasing evidence suggests that macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) is produced in the uterine endometrium and that it plays an important role in the reproductive process. In the present study, using an in vitro decidualization model and human endometrium, we investigated M-CSF messenger RNA (mRNA) expression in human endometrial stromal cells (ESC) by Northern blotting and in situ h...

The endometrium undergoes a dynamic proliferation of cells and vascular tissue under the influence ovarian steroid hormones. Implantation is an essential process in development pregnancy, where there close contact between embryo uterus, including supposition, adhesion, invasion. changes occur human endometrium, endometrial secretion changes, blood vessels, immune response, leading to uterine re...

The ability of endometrial stromal cells from nonsensitized rat uteri to undergo decidualization in vitro was investigated. Cells were obtained by enzymatic dispersion from uteri of ovariectomized, steroid-treated rats at the equivalent of day 4, 5 or 6 of pseudopregnancy, or on day 5 from rats treated with 0, 0.3 or 1.0 microgram oestradiol (low, intermediate or high doses of oestradiol, respe...

Histone acetyltransferases and histone deacetylases (HDACs) determine the acetylation status of histones, regulating gene transcription. Decidualization is the progestin-induced differentiation of estrogen-primed endometrial stromal cells (ESCs), which is crucial for implantation and maintenance of pregnancy. We here show that trichostatin A (TSA), a specific HDAC inhibitor, enhances the up-reg...

Uterine stromal cells undergo extensive proliferation and differentiation during postimplantation development, a process known as decidualization. While a range of signaling molecules have been demonstrated to play essential roles in this event, its potential epigenetic regulatory mechanisms remain largely unknown. Retinoblastoma binding protein 7 (Rbbp7) is a protein reported as a core compone...

The human endometrium prepares for implantation of the blastocyst by reorganization of its whole cellular network. Endometrial stroma cells change their phenotype starting around the 23rd day of the menstrual cycle. These predecidual stroma cells first appear next to spiral arteries, and after implantation these cells further differentiate into decidual stroma cells. The phenotypical changes in...