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Expression of human placental lactogen and variant growth hormone genes in placentas
Arch. med. res ; Arch. med. res;28(4): 507-12, dec. 1997. ilus
Article em En | LILACS | ID: lil-225254
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ABSTRACT
Previous studies comparing the expression levels of human placental lactogen (hPL) genes have shown varying results, due to, perhaps, the fact that in all of them only one placenta was being analyzed. Here, the expression of hPL and growth hormone variant (hGH-V) genes in fifteen term placentas was comparatively analyzed at the RNA level, using reverse transciption coupled to polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The abundance of the combined RNA transcripts derived from these genes varied from one placenta to another. The authors found that hPL-4 transcripts were more abundant than those of hPL-3 in most samples (ratio from 11 to 61), transcripts from the putative hPL-1 pseudogene were more abundant at the unprocessed stage while those of the hGH-V gene were mostly processed. Again, the authors of this study observed wide variation from placenta to placenta to placenta in the abundance of both of these types of transcripts. The same was observed when a group of six placentas from abortuses and nine from pregnancies complicated by preclampsia, diabetes and hypertension was studied. The authors conclude that the disagreeing results reported in the literature which are not in agreement concerning the expression levels of hPL gene could be explained by normal variations of their expression levels among the different placentas analyzed
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Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: LILACS Assunto principal: Placenta / Lactogênio Placentário / Variação Genética / Hormônio do Crescimento / Expressão Gênica Limite: Animals / Female / Humans / Pregnancy Idioma: En Revista: Arch. med. res Assunto da revista: MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 1997 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: México
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Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: LILACS Assunto principal: Placenta / Lactogênio Placentário / Variação Genética / Hormônio do Crescimento / Expressão Gênica Limite: Animals / Female / Humans / Pregnancy Idioma: En Revista: Arch. med. res Assunto da revista: MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 1997 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: México