Attachment of blastocysts to lens capsule: a model system for trophoblast-epithelial cell interaction on a natural basement membrane.
Attachment of blastocysts to lens capsule: a model system for trophoblast-epithelial cell interaction on a natural basement membrane.
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囊胚与晶状体囊的附着:天然基底膜上滋养层-上皮细胞相互作用的模型系统。
DOI:
10.1007/bf00218957
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发表时间:
1987
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Wordinger,R
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作者:
Cammarata,PR;Oakford,L;Cantu-Crouch,D;Wordinger,R
The bovine lens capsule has previously been shown to provide an optimal surface for the examination of epithelial cell interaction with a basement membrane. This native substrate has been used to investigate some initial aspects of attachment of mouse blastocysts and trophoblastic cellular outgrowth. Mouse blastocysts were presented to the cell-free humoral side of the anterior lens capsule, incubated for 72 h, and examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Blastocysts hatch and attach from their zonae pellucidae by 30 h. Trophoblastic cells proliferate rapidly in a coronal direction, display extensive surface microvilli, and advance by the extension of numerous filipodia, many of which terminate with bulbous projections. These projections were shown by transmission electron microscopy to contain numerous vacuoles and polysomes. To simulate further the initial blastocyst-uterine interaction, a suspension of lens epithelial cells was introduced to the capsule and permitted to form a monolayer prior to the addition of the blastocysts. At 72 h the monolayer of lens cells remained intact. We observed that: a) lens cells appear to recede from the advancing trophoblastic cells, and b) trophoblastic cells extend beneath the monolayer of lens cells and thereby dislodge the cells from the lens capsule substrate. No infiltration of the capsule by the advancing trophoblastic cells was observed. The lens capsule appears to offer a promising system for the study of trophoblast-epithelial cell interaction on a natural basement membrane.