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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-21
pubmed:abstractText
Clomiphene citrate (CC) therapy for disorders of anovulatory infertility has been linked to an increased frequency of tubal ectopic pregnancy. Although CC enhances apoptotic processes in the ovaries, villi, and decidual tissues, its effect on apoptosis in the fallopian tube is unknown. Here, we show that chronic treatment with CC induces tubal apoptosis, but not necrosis, through an intrinsic mitochondria-dependent signaling pathway in vivo. The apoptosis was specific to epithelial cells in the isthmus, and the damage was reversed with 17beta-estradiol (E2); however, pretreatment or concomitant treatment with E2 did not protect against tubal apoptosis induced by chronic treatment with CC. Chronic treatment activated estrogen receptors (ESRs), particularly cilia-localized ESR2A (formerly ERbeta2). In contrast to E2, acute treatment of superovulating rats with a high dose of CC or the ESR2-selective agonist 2,3-bis (4-hydroxyphenyl)-propionitrile (DPN) significantly delayed the transport of oocyte-cumulus complexes through the fallopian tube. Our findings suggest that in response to chronic CC therapy, isthmus-specific apoptosis of epithelial cells and activation of cilia-ESR2A act in parallel to block gamete and embryo passage through the fallopian tube, eventually resulting in tubal ectopic pregnancy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0006-3363
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
80
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1262-71
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Body Weight, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Clomiphene, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Estradiol, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Fallopian Tubes, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Gonadal Steroid Hormones, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Oocytes, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Organ Size, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Pregnancy, Tubal, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Receptors, Estrogen, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators, pubmed-meshheading:19211805-Superovulation
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Clomiphene citrate causes aberrant tubal apoptosis and estrogen receptor activation in rat fallopian tube: implications for tubal ectopic pregnancy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology/Endocrinology, Core Facilities, The Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden. ruijin.shao@fysiologi.gu.se
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't