RADIOAUTOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS ON VARIATIONS IN DESOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS IN RAT PLACENTA WITH INCREASING GESTATIONAL AGE.
RADIOAUTOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS ON VARIATIONS IN DESOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS IN RAT PLACENTA WITH INCREASING GESTATIONAL AGE.
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随着胎龄增加,大鼠胎盘中脱氧核糖核酸合成变化的放射自显影观察。
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10.1002/aja.1001140109
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1964
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W. Jollie
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W. Jollie
The chorioallantoic placenta of the rat attains full size at 16 days of gestation and consists of a labyrinth and a junctional zone. The latter is defined as the region, trophoblastic in origin, which lies adjacent to the decidua basalis and into which fetal capillaries do not penetrate (Bridgman,’48). Histologically, the junctional zone consists of at least three distinct trophoblastic elements, all of which are believed to be derived from the chorionic ectoplacental cone of the implanting blastocyst:(1) trophospongial cells;(2) glycogen cells, and (3) trophoblast giant-cells. In addition, the trabeculae of the labyrinth are surfaced with trophoblastic elements which also are believed to be derived from ectoplacental cone. Labyrinthine trophoblast has been shown to be both cellular (rather than syncytial, as was previously supposed) and of constant persistence throughout the course of pregnancy, thereby making the rat placenta hemochorial (Dempsey and Wislocki,’53; Wislocki and Dempsey,’55), rather than hemoendothelial, as was previously believed (Mossman,’37). Although the labyrinth is generally credited with constituting the “placental barrier” across which materno-embryonic exchanges take place (viz., between maternal bIood sinuses in the interstices of the trabeculae and allantoic capillaries in the trabecular cores), there is increasing evidence to suggest that, particularly during earlier stages of pregnancy, the junctional zone acts as an alternate route of exchange (Amoroso,’55; Dempsey,’59). In both re-gions chorionic trophoblast constitutes an integral part of the barrier. In rodents another site of materno-fetal exchange, one whose importance is not secondary to the chorioallantois, is the vascularized splanchnopleure of the yolk sac. Indeed, anatomically, developmentally and functionally, this constitutes a separate placenta (Everett,‘35). With rupture of Reichert’s membrane at 16 days of pregnancy, parietal yolk sac consisting of abembryonal trophectoderm and endoderm, together with the remnants of the decidua capsularis retract; and the visceral yolk sac is thereby exposed to the uterine lumen. This last named membrane consists of endodermal villi containing a vitelline circulation and presents as a potential transfer route (viz., between uterine lumen and vitelline capillaries) a third “barrier” which contains no trophoblastic elements. It has long been known that maternofetal exchanges are selective. In addition, on the basis of physiological determinations, it appears that for most substances, transfer is accomplished either by active transport alone (Hagerman and Villee,’60), or by both active transport and facilitated diffusion (Widdas,’61). Studies on placental transport are complicated by the facts that:(1) both selectivity of transportable materials and rates of transport appear to vary with gestational age (Brambell,’50; Feaster, Hansard, Outler and Davis,’56; Leissring and Anderson,’61); and (2) with certain exceptions little is known about the actual site of transfer for particular substances, ie, across which of the barriers described above (Wislocki, Dean and Dempsey,’46). In the case of junctional zone elements, a progressive reorganization of structure at an electron microscopic level with in-