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Comparative Study
. 2016 Mar;118(2):137-43.
doi: 10.1016/j.acthis.2015.12.004. Epub 2015 Dec 28.

The adherens junction is lost during normal pregnancy but not during ovarian hyperstimulated pregnancy

Samson N Dowland  1 , Romanthi J Madawala  2 , Laura A Lindsay  2 , Christopher R Murphy  2
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Comparative Study

The adherens junction is lost during normal pregnancy but not during ovarian hyperstimulated pregnancy

Samson N Dowland et al. Acta Histochem. 2016 Mar.

Abstract

During early pregnancy in the rat, the luminal uterine epithelial cells (UECs) must transform to a receptive state to permit blastocyst attachment and implantation. The implantation process involves penetration of the epithelial barrier, so it is expected that the transformation of UECs includes alterations in the lateral junctional complex. Previous studies have demonstrated a deepening of the tight junction (zonula occludens) and a reduction in the number of desmosomes (macula adherens) in UECs at the time of implantation. However, the adherens junction (zonula adherens), which is primarily responsible for cell-cell adhesion, has been little studied during early pregnancy. This study investigated the adherens junction in rat UECs during the early stages of normal pregnancy and ovarian hyperstimulated (OH) pregnancy using transmission electron microscopy. The adherens junction is present in UECs at the time of fertilisation, but is lost at the time of blastocyst implantation during normal pregnancy. Interestingly, at the time of implantation after OH, adherens junctions are retained and may impede blastocyst penetration of the epithelium. The adherens junction anchors the actin-based terminal web, which is known to be disrupted in UECs during early pregnancy. However, artificial disruption of the terminal web, using cytochalasin D, did not cause removal of the adherens junction in UECs. This study revealed that adherens junction disassembly occurs during early pregnancy, but that this process does not occur during OH pregnancy. Such disassembly does not appear to depend on the disruption of the terminal web.

Keywords: Adherens junction; Epithelium; Implantation; Ovarian hyperstimulation; Pregnancy; Uterine receptivity.

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