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ArticleCell proliferation2007

Role of the platelet-activating factor and its receptor in the proliferative regulation of bovine ovarian granulosa cells.

T Viergutz, B Löhrke

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Article in Cell proliferation, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

T ViergutzDepartment of Reproductive Biology, Research Institute of the Biology for Farm Animals, Dummerstorf, Germany. viergutz@fbn-dummerstorf.de
B Löhrke
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledProliferation of granulosa cells and their withdrawal from the cell cycle may regulate follicular ovulation. Antagonists of platelet-activating factor (PAF) and its receptor (PAFr) inhibit follicle rupture.

objectivesThus, PAF and PAFr may be involved in proliferative regulation of granulosa cells; however, expression of PAFr in these cells is unknown. MATERIALS AND

methodsThe aim of this study was to investigate the presence of PAFr and the effect of PAF on proliferation of cultured bovine granulosa cells using real-time polymerase chain reaction to assay steady-state level of mRNA, immunocytochemistry to quantify PAFr protein and proliferating cell nuclear antigen protein by flow cytometry.

resultsWe found that granulosa cells express PAFr transcripts and protein. PAF presence did not change the concentration of PAFr mRNA or PAFr protein. Granulosa cells responded to PAF doses of 10 and 50 nm with increasing proportions of cells entering G0/G1 phase, as well as a significant expansion of total cell numbers. Rise in G0/G1-phase cells was accompanied by a decline in proliferating cell nuclear antigen protein expression, and these effects could be suspended by simultaneous PAFr blockage. The results provide clear evidence for expression of PAFr in bovine granulosa cells and its functional involvement in PAF/PAFr-mediated stimulation of cell recruitment.

conclusionsPAF antagonists are suggested to disturb this regulative activity of PAF and to contribute in this way to blockage of ovulation.

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AnimalsCattleCell CountCell CycleCell ProliferationCells, CulturedDNAFemaleFlow CytometryGene Expression RegulationGranulosa CellsPlatelet Activating FactorPlatelet Membrane GlycoproteinsProliferating Cell Nuclear AntigenReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledRNA, MessengerDNAPlatelet Activating Factorplatelet activating factor receptorPlatelet Membrane GlycoproteinsProliferating Cell Nuclear AntigenReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledRNA, Messenger

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PMID18021181
PMCPMC6495917
OpenAlexW1972253996

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