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- Title
Acute Temporal Regulation of Vascular Endothelial Growth/Permeability Factor Expression and Endothelial Morphology in the Baboon Endometrium by Ovarian Steroids.
- Authors
ALBRECHT, EUGENE D.; ABERDEEN, GRAHAM W.; NIKLAUS, ANDREA L.; BABISCHKIN, JEFFERY S.; SURESCH, DONNA L.; PEPE, GERALD J.
- Abstract
We recently showed that endometrial vascular endothelial growth/permeability factor (VEG/PF) mRNA expression was decreased by ovariectomy of baboons and restored by chronic administration of estrogen. However, it remains to be determined whether this effect of estrogen reflects genomic up-regulation of VEG/PF and leads to an increase in microvascular permeability, an early physiological event in angiogenesis. Therefore, we determined the temporal expression of VEG/PF mRNA in glandular epithelial and stromal cells isolated by laser capture microdissection from and width of microvascular paracellular clefts that regulate vessel permeability in the endometrium of ovariectomized baboons after acute estradiol and/or progesterone administration. Endometrial VEG/PF mRNA levels were increased in five of five animals within 2 h of estradiol administration and remained elevated at 4 and 6 h. The net increase in glandular epithelial (7.31 +/- 2.72 attomol/fmol 18S ribosomal rRNA) and stromal (3.13 +/- 0.36) cell VEG/PF mRNA levels after estradiol administration was over 8-fold (P < 0.05) and 2.6-fold (P < 0.01) greater, respectively, than after vehicle (0.90 +/- 0.30, glands and 1.20 +/- 0.33, stroma). In contrast, endometrial VEG/PF mRNA expression was unaltered by progesterone. After estradiol treatment, endometrial paracellular cleft width was increased (P < 0.01) from a mean (+/-SE) of 71.6 +/- 4.6 nm at 0 h to 101.1 +/- 6.4 nm at 6 h, whereas vehicle or progesterone had no effect. We suggest that estrogen has a major role in regulating VEG/PF synthesis and early events in angiogenesis in the primate endometrium.
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2003, Vol 88, Issue 6, p2844
- ISSN
0021-972X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1210/jc.2002-021546