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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-1-10
pubmed:abstractText
During organogenesis, the middle to caudal portion of Müllerian epithelium differentiates into uterine and vaginal epithelia in females. Functional differentiation of uterine and vaginal epithelia occurs in adulthood, and is regulated by 17beta-estradiol (E(2)) and progesterone. In this report, the roles of mesenchyme/stroma in differentiation of uterine and vaginal epithelia were studied in tissue recombination experiments. At birth, Müllerian epithelium was negative for uterine and vaginal epithelial markers. Tissue recombinant experiments showed that uterine and vaginal gene expression patterns were induced in neonatal Müllerian epithelium by the respective mesenchymes. Differentiated adult uterine and vaginal epithelia did not change their original gene expression in response to heterotypic mesenchymal induction. In the adult vagina, E(2) induced expression of involucrin, a CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein beta and cytokeratin 1 via estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha). Tissue recombination experiments with wild-type and ERalpha knockout mice demonstrated that epithelial gene expression is regulated by E(2) via epithelial-stromal tissue interactions. Uterine/vaginal heterotypic tissue recombinations demonstrated that functional differentiation of uterine and vaginal epithelia required organ-specific stromal factors. In contrast, stromal signals regulating epithelial proliferation appeared to be nonspecific in the uterus and vagina.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0012-1606
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
240
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
194-211
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-beta, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Estradiol, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Estrogen Receptor alpha, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Keratins, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Mullerian Ducts, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Receptors, Estrogen, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Stromal Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Uterus, pubmed-meshheading:11784056-Vagina
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Epithelial-stromal tissue interaction in paramesonephric (Müllerian) epithelial differentiation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0452, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.