Gunin AG, Emelianov VU, Tolmachev AS. Expression of estrogen receptor-alpha, glucocorticoid receptor, beta-catenin and glycogen synthase kinase-3beta in the uterus of mice following long-term treatment with estrogen and glucocorticoid hormones.
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2003;
107:62-7. [PMID:
12593897 DOI:
10.1016/s0301-2115(02)00375-5]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
It has been shown that long-term glucocporticoid administration to chronically estradiol-treated mice decreases uterine weight, proliferation in all uterine tissues, the number of perpendicularly oriented mitoses in uterine epithelia and the incidence of atypical endometrial hyperplasia. However, mechanisms of chronic glucocorticoid action on estrogen-dependent processes in the uterus are unclear.
METHODS AND RESULTS
Results of present research showed that adding of glucocorticoid dexamethasone (in drinking water, 2mg/l) to estradiol-treated mice led to a decrease in the level of glucocorticoid receptor, to an increase in levels of estrogen receptor-alpha, beta-catenin and glycogen synthase kinase-3beta in uterine tissues of ovariectomized mice at 30, 60 and 90 days of the treatment. When vehicle was used instead estradiol, dexamethasone did not produce detectable changes in all parameters tested at all periods of observation.
CONCLUSION
Results allow to conclude that estrogen and glucocorticoid receptors, beta-catenin and glycogen synthase kinase-3beta are involved in estrogen-dependent changes in uterine morphology and hyperplasia formation.
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