The development of deciduomata induced by two non-traumatic methods in the mouse.
The development of deciduomata induced by two non-traumatic methods in the mouse.
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通过两种非创伤性方法诱导小鼠蜕膜的发育。
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1968
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C. Hetherington
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C. Hetherington
In the mouse at implantation, the uterus responds to the presence of a blastocyst by producing a massive cellular reaction in the stroma to form a deciduoma. The period during which the decidual cell reaction may be initiated is fairly well defined, and the reaction depends on adequate sensitization of the uterus by the ovarian hormones. In this study, two non-traumatic methods of deciduoma induction were employed, intra-luminal injection of arachis oil (Finn & Hinchliffe, 1965), and intra-luminal injection of air, which was reported by Orsini (1963) to be an effective stimulus in the hamster and the rat. Virgin mice of the random outbred Q strain, weighing 20p=n-25 g, and pseudopregnant after mating with vasectomized males, were used. The day on which the vaginal plug was found was taken as the 1st day of pseudopregnancy. The first experiment was designed to discover the time of onset and duration of uterine sensitivity. The treatment, which was restricted to one horn of each uterus, consisted of an intraluminal injection, through the utero-tubal junction, using a 30G needle and a 0m=. 5ml microlitre syringe, of either 0m=. 1ml of arachis oil on one of the first 5 days of pseudopregnancy at 09.30 or 16.30 hours, or 0m=. 2ml of air on the 3rd, 4th or 5th dayp=m-eachexperimental group consisting of five mice. In order to determine the extent of traumatic deciduoma, a syringe needle was merely inserted into one horn of each of the control group. Autopsies, in all instances, were carried out between 11.00 and 11.30 hours on the 7th day, and the uterine horns were weighed individually on a torsion balance. It was apparent at autopsy that some inter-cornual migration of both oil and air had occurred, making a between-horn comparison impossible, while traumatic deciduomata in the control horns were small or absent. With the doses used, oil produced the greater response (Text-fig. 1). The data suggest either that the period of sensitivity for induction by oil is of longer duration or, more probably, that the oil remains longer in the lumen. If 0-02 ml of air is injected into a uterine horn, air bubbles may be detected, on dissecting the uterus under physiological saline, for up to 5 hr. Oil may be similarly detected in a uterus for 5 days, after injection on the 4th day of pseudopregnancy. Oil injected on the 1st day of pseudopregnancy, however, produced only one small deciduoma in one of five treated horns. Probably oil injected on the 1st day of pseudopregnancy is able to leak out of the vagina, while oil injected on the 4th day of pseudopregnancy is trapped by the deciduoma. The data suggest that