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PubMed1975

Immunoreactive ACTH and cortisol plasma levels during pregnancy. Detection and partial purification of corticotrophin-like placental hormone: the human chorionic corticotrophin (HCC).

The high plasma cortisol and ACTH levels present in pregnant women as well as the non-parrallelism of their plasma extract dilution curves in comparison with the standard curve in the ACTH radioimmunoassay, are evidence for the presence of an ACTH-like substance during pregnancy which would interfere with the assay. Placental extracts were obtained by acid-acetone extraction, followed by partial purification with oxycellulose and by extraction with porous glass powder. A substance was detected which partially cross-reacted with synthetic human ACTH in the radioimmunoassay and which showed biological activity using the assay procedure described by Liscomb & Nelson. The data sustain the existence of an ACTH-like placental hormone: human chorionic corticotrophin (HCC).

Adrenocorticotropic Hormone↗
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[Placental hormones and fetal growth].

Fetal growth is controlled by the placenta which mediates fetal nutritional supplies. During pregnancy, the placenta secretes a specific placental growth hormone which replaces the pituitary growth hormone in the maternal circulation. Placental growth hormone is one example of the materno-placental cooperation which is impaired in cases of intra-uterine growth retardation.

Embryonic and Fetal Development↗
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[Correlations between urinary prostaglandins, placental hormones and prolactin in the first pregnancy trimester].

In the first weeks of pregnancy there is a significant increase of vasodilatator prostaglandins in maternal blood. This increase could be in a cause-effect relation with the increase of progesterone, BHCG and HPRL typical of the first phase of pregnancy. Blood samples of 12 normotensive women reveal that there is not a correlation between placental hormons, HPRL and the increase of prostaglandins, but these hormones seem to offer an important control on other more complex biochemical mechanisms that cause the increase of vasodilator prostaglandins.

Blood Pressure↗
PubMed1980

Ovarian and placental hormones during prolactin suppression and stimulation in early human pregnancy.

Twenty-seven healthy females referred for legal abortion between the sixth and ninth week of pregnancy were treated for 1 week with either bromocriptine, metoclopramide or placebo. Serum prolactin was significantly (P < 0.01) elevated by metoclopramide and suppressed by bromocriptine. Despite a more than tenfold difference in circulating prolactin levels among these two groups, no significant difference was found in serum levels of progesterone, oestradiol, human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) human placental lactogen (hPL) or pregnancy specific B1-glycoprotein (SP1). These data suggest that circulating levels of prolactin below 150 ng/ml are without effect on either luteal or placental hormone secretion during early human pregnancy.

Adult↗
PubMed1996

Effect of pulse Doppler ultrasound on placental hormone excretion in vitro.

There is no literature data on the effects of ultrasound on the metabolism of placental tissue. In the present study, the authors have investigated the possible influence of pulsed field Doppler ultrasound on hormonal excretion of human placental trophoblasts in vitro. For the detection of placental hormones, specific immunoassays for chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), human placental lactogen (hPL), estrogen and progesterone were used. Compared to control trophoblast hormone excretion, pulsed field ultrasound exposure induced no changes in the excretion of the hormones in vitro. The authors were unable to demonstrate any alterations caused by pulsed field Doppler ultrasound in this in vitro model. Additional studies are required to deepen our understanding of the effect of pulsed Doppler ultrasound on other biomolecules and their metabolism.

Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, Human↗
PubMed1976

[The action of the polypeptide placental hormones HCG and HCS on the blastic changes of lymphocytes in mixed cultures].

The present work studies the effect of the placental hormones HCG and HCS on cellular immunity in vitro. These two hormones used in identical or greater concentrations than found in circulating blood inhibit lymphoblastic changes in mixed cultures of lymphocytes. It is possible that HCG and HCS have the same inhibiting effect in vivo on immunity by cellular mediation in the pregnant woman. This inhibition could be of the greatest importance at the surface of the trophoblast where their concentration is probably raised, and where contact between fetal antigens and maternal blood also takes place.

Cells, Cultured↗
PubMed1980

[Pre-eclampsia and placental hormones (author's transl)].

Human placental lactogen (HPL) and beta 1-SP-1, a placental glycoprotein specific for pregnancy, were determined in 177 pregnant women with pre-eclampsia of varying severity. The serum levels of both hormones decrease during pregnancy in concordance to the severity of pre-eclampsia. In women with severe pre-eclampsia more than 50% showed extreme decreases of the serum concentrations of both hormones. Because of the simple methodology of the test, rapid availability of the results and a lower cost, the determination of the beta-1-SP-1 is perferable to the determination of HPL.

Female↗
PubMed1978

The plasma half-life of placental hormones.

Blood was collected from 12 women following Caesarean section or normal delivery at term. The decline in plasma concentration of total oestriol, oestriol sulphate, oestriol glucosiduronate, unconjugated oestriol, human placental lactogen and pregnancy specific beta1 glycoprotein following delivery of the placenta was studied for 120 hours. The steroids and human placental lactogen fell very rapidly but pregnancy specific beta1 glycoprotein declined much more slowly. Analysis of the curves of puerperal decline suggests that the oestriol moieties are distributed in many compartments of the mother but that the proteins penetrate only to the plasma and the interstitial fluid.

Estriol↗