title: Enhancing effects of human macrophage colony-stimulating factor on the secretion of human chorionic gonadotropin by human chorionic villous cells and tPA30-1 cells.
abstract: Human macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hM-CSF) concentration-dependently enhanced the secretion of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) by primary cultured human cytotrophoblastic cells and a human placental cell line, 3A-SubE (tPA30-1). Since this effect appeared 12 hours after the addition of hM-CSF and disappeared when protein synthesis was inhibited, it was surmised that hCG synthesis was enhanced by hM-CSF. When anti fms (hM-CSF receptor) antibody was added, hCG secretion by cultured human cytotrophoblasts in early pregnancy markedly decreased. These findings demonstrate that hM-CSF acts on the chorionic villous cells and promotes hCG synthesis by these cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nara Medical University, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Motoyoshi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ichijo
mesh_terms: D002460:Cell Line; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000378:metabolism*; D002824:Chorionic Villi / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010920:Placenta; D011247:Pregnancy; D014327:Trophoblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor