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1 March 2003 CHARACTERIZATION OF NEWLY ESTABLISHED CLONAL OVIDUCTAL CELL LINES AND DIFFERENTIAL HORMONAL REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION
TOMOHIRO UMEZU, MAKOTO HANAZONO, SHINICHI AIZAWA, YASUHIRO TOMOOKA
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Abstract

Oviductal functions have been studied mainly in primary epithelial cell culture and organ culture. However, secretory cells and ciliated cells coexist in the epithelium, and the small size of the oviduct limits the sources of both epithelial and stromal cells. To circumvent the limits, we attempted to establish clonal cell lines from an oviduct of a p53-deficient mouse. An oviduct was enzymatically digested and cultured in medium containing 10% fetal calf serum supplemented with estradiol-17β. Morphologically distinct clones (10 epithelial and 4 fibroblastic clones) were established, and all clones expressed estrogen receptor α and progesterone receptor. Expression of a mouse oviduct–specific glycoprotein gene as a marker of secretory cells was limited in one clone and was stimulated by estrogens and suppressed by progesterone. Expression of helix factor hepatocyte nuclear factor/forkhead homologue-4 gene as a marker of ciliated cells was limited in two clones and was suppressed by estrogens. The two genes were never coexpressed in any clones. The results strongly suggest that the oviductal epithelium consists of two functionally determined populations. To our knowledge, this is the first establishment of functional clonal cell lines of the oviduct and makes it possible to study independently two oviductal functions, secretion and ciliogenesis.

TOMOHIRO UMEZU, MAKOTO HANAZONO, SHINICHI AIZAWA, and YASUHIRO TOMOOKA "CHARACTERIZATION OF NEWLY ESTABLISHED CLONAL OVIDUCTAL CELL LINES AND DIFFERENTIAL HORMONAL REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION," In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal 39(3), 146-156, (1 March 2003). https://doi.org/10.1290/1543-706X(2003)039<0146:CONECO>2.0.CO;2
Received: 19 May 2003; Accepted: 27 June 2003; Published: 1 March 2003
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KEYWORDS
ciliated cell
oviduct epithelium
p53-deficiency
secretory cell
sex hormones
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