title: Effects of decidual cell supernatants and lymphokines on murine trophoblast growth in vitro.
abstract: Blastocysts were flushed from CD1 mice and were cultured in plastic or laminin-coated plates as an in vitro model of implantation. The purified cytokines epidermal growth factor (EGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) markedly stimulated 3H-thymidine incorporation; but recombinant murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), which might be produced by alloantigen-stimulated T cells at the feto-maternal interface, had no growth-stimulating effect. Indeed, higher nonphysiological concentrations of GM-CSF manifested a toxic inhibition. Surprisingly, a purified nonrecombinant murine GM-CSF preparation induced proliferation of both blastocyst and ectoplacental cone trophoblast whereas recombinant murine (and human) GM-CSF had no effect, indicating that the growth stimulation may have been due to a contaminant. Decidual supernatants prepared on Days 5.5-6.5 of pregnancy from mice with high abortion rates (DBA/2-mated CBA/J) had no toxic or stimulating effect on blastocyst trophoblast outgrowth compared to similarly prepared supernatants from low-abortion-rate DBA/2-mated C3H/HeJ mice. These data suggest that it is not GM-CSF that is crucial for the trophoblast proliferation that determines the success of pregnancy.
authors: Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
authors: R G
authors: RG
authors: Lea
authors: D A
authors: DA
authors: Clark
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D003656:Decidua / Q000502:physiology*; D010064:Embryo Implantation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D011247:Pregnancy; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D014327:Trophoblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor