RGD Reference Report - Chondroitin sulphate and heparan sulfate proteoglycan are sequentially expressed in the uterine extracellular matrix during early pregnancy in the rat. - Rat Genome Database

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Chondroitin sulphate and heparan sulfate proteoglycan are sequentially expressed in the uterine extracellular matrix during early pregnancy in the rat.

Authors: Slater, M  Murphy, CR 
Citation: Slater M and Murphy CR, Matrix Biol. 1999 Apr;18(2):125-31.
RGD ID: 1624264
Pubmed: PMID:10372552   (View Abstract at PubMed)

Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG) and heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) are extracellular matrix proteins that regulate cell adhesion, growth, migration, differentiation and gene expression in many systems. In this study, stromal CSPG label was intense within 10 microm of the uterine lumen. From that distance to the myometrium, CSPG was de-expressed. From the time of implantation on Day 6, this pattern was reversed. CSPG was de-expressed from the uterine epithelium to a distance of approximately 10 microm from the uterine lumen. From that region to the myometrium, labeling was homogeneously intense. This finding suggests that CSPG may inhibit attachment and implantation. Heparan sulfate core proteoglycan (perlecan) was increasingly expressed in the uterine epithelium from the time of implantation, commencing in the basement membrane on Day 6 and extending to the apical epithelium and lateral plasma membranes by Day 7. Perlecan thus appears to facilitate trophoblast attachment and implantation. We propose that attachment and implantation is regulated, at least in part, by the selective and sequential expression of CSPG and perlecan.



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Biological Process

  
Object SymbolSpeciesTermQualifierEvidenceWithNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
Hspg2Ratembryo implantation  IEP  RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Hspg2  (heparan sulfate proteoglycan 2)


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