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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 48, 437-440, Copyright © 1979 by Endocrine Society

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Inhibition of human chorionic gonadotropin-induced progesterone synthesis by estradiol in isolated human luteal cells

MT Williams, MS Roth, JM Marsh and WJ LeMaire

The purpose of this study was to determine whether estrogens exerted a direct inhibitory effect on progesterone synthesis in isolated human luteal cells in vitro. It was found that hCG stimulated progesterone synthesis by luteal cells, obtained from corpora lutea of the menstrual cycle, whereas cells isolated from corpora lutea of pregnancy were unresponsive to exogenous hCG. Estradiol markedly inhibited (P less than 0.001) this hCG effect in luteal cells of the menstrual cycle, and this inhibition was dose dependent. Estradiol did not block the stimulation of cAMP accumulated by hCG in the luteal cells of the cycle but did inhibit the stimulatory effect of dibutyryl cAMP on progesterone synthesis. These data suggest that estrogens may directly cause functional luteolysis in the human and that its site of action may be after the accumulation of cAMP.


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