Trinucleate cells and the ultrastructural localisation of bovine placental lactogen

[en] Bovine placental lactogen activity is shown by immunogold electron microscopy to be restricted to (a) the granules and the Golgi body from which they form in the bovine fetal trophectodermal binucleate cell, and (b) granules of similar size and staining reaction in trinucleate "giant" cells found in the maternal uterine epithelium thoughout pregnancy. These results support the hypothesis that a fetal binucleate cell forms a maternal giant cell by migration to and fusion with a uterine epthelial cell.

Research center :

Laboratoire d'Endocrinologie et de Physiologie de la Reproduction animale

Disciplines :

Veterinary medicine & animal health

Author, co-author :

Wooding, F. B. P.; AFRC Institue of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge, UK

Beckers, Jean-François ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de sciences fonctionnelles > Physiologie de la reproduction

Language :

English

Title :

Trinucleate cells and the ultrastructural localisation of bovine placental lactogen

Publication date :

March 1987

Journal title :

Cell and Tissue Research

ISSN :

0302-766X

eISSN :

1432-0878

Publisher :

Springer Science & Business Media B.V., New York, United States - New York

Volume :

247

Pages :

667-673

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Funders :

IRSIA - Institut pour l'Encouragement de la Recherche Scientifique dans l'Industrie et l'Agriculture [BE]

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