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Conflicting Nongenomic Effects of Progesterone in the Myometrium of Pregnant Rats.


ABSTRACT: Recently, it has been suggested that progesterone affects the contractile activity of pregnant myometrium via nongenomic pathways; therefore, we aimed to clarify whether progesterone causes and/or inhibits pregnant myometrial contractions via nongenomic pathways. Our in vitro experiments using myometrial strips obtained from rats at 20 days of gestation revealed that progesterone caused myometrial contractions in a concentration- and time-dependent manner at concentrations up to 5 × 10-7 M; however, this effect decreased at concentrations higher than 5 × 10-5 M. Similarly, progesterone enhanced oxytocin-induced contractions up to 5 × 10-7 M and inhibited contractions at concentrations higher than 5 × 10-5 M. Conversely, progesterone did not enhance high-KCl-induced contractions but inhibited contractions in a concentration- and time-dependent manner at concentrations higher than 5 × 10-7 M. We also found that RU486 did not affect progesterone-induced contractions or the progesterone-induced inhibition of high-KCl-induced contractions; however, progesterone-induced contractions were blocked by calcium-free phosphate saline solution, verapamil, and nifedipine. In addition, FPL64176, an activator of L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels, enhanced high-KCl-induced contractions and rescued the decrease in high-KCl-induced contractions caused by progesterone. Together, these results suggest that progesterone exerts conflicting nongenomic effects on the contractions of pregnant myometrium via putative L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels.

SUBMITTER: Yasuda K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7926872 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Conflicting Nongenomic Effects of Progesterone in the Myometrium of Pregnant Rats.

Yasuda Katsuhiko K   Yoshida Aya A   Okada Hidetaka H  

International journal of molecular sciences 20210222 4


Recently, it has been suggested that progesterone affects the contractile activity of pregnant myometrium via nongenomic pathways; therefore, we aimed to clarify whether progesterone causes and/or inhibits pregnant myometrial contractions via nongenomic pathways. Our in vitro experiments using myometrial strips obtained from rats at 20 days of gestation revealed that progesterone caused myometrial contractions in a concentration- and time-dependent manner at concentrations up to 5 × 10<sup>-7</s  ...[more]

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