SITES OF SERUM ALPHA-FETOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN HUMAN AND IN RAT
SITES OF SERUM ALPHA-FETOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN HUMAN AND IN RAT
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DOI:
10.1172/jci105590
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发表时间:
1967-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
BOESMAN, M
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作者:
GITLIN, D;BOESMAN, M
Selected tissues from human embryos of 6 to 9 weeks'' gestation, from rat fetuses of 15 days'' gestation, and from rats 2 days of age were incubated with 14c-labeled amino acids. Immunoelectrophoresis of the culture fluid after incubation, using rabbit antisera against human and rat fetal serum proteins, followed by radioautography revealed that: 1) Radioactive [alpha]-fetoprotein was present in cultures of human liver, rat liver, and rat yolk sac, but not in cultures of human or rat brain, lung, heart, kidney, intestines, skeletal muscle, skin, or placenta; human yolk sac was not studied. 2) Radioactive transferrin was also present in rat yolk sac cultures, and the same protein was found in rat liver cultures as well. 3) Rat liver and rat placenta cultures both produced radioactive serum Ra2-globulin. Serum a-fetoprotein concentrations in the rat declined abruptly after birth to approximately half of the prenatal level by 2 to 3 days of age, in accord with the loss of the fetal membranes at delivery; the a-fetoprotein level then remained relatively constant until the rat was 6 to 8 days of age, after which synthesis of the protein was increasingly suppressed.