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Query: UNIPROT:P01178 (oxytocin)
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) due to their lipophilic properties can be easily accumulated in animal and human body and elicit diverse effects causing impairment of reproductive processes. Since these compounds were not be able to affect directly the luteal steroidogenesis, the aim of the present study was to verify hypothesis that PCBs can impair the effect of LH on the secretory function of luteal cells. Bovine luteal cells from different stages of the oestrous cycle (days 1-5, 6-10, 11-15 and 16-18) were exposed for 72h to various congeners of PCBs (PCB 126, PCB 77 and PCB 153) at the doses of 1, 10 or 100 ng/ml, in the presence or absence of LH (100 ng/ml), to determine the possible effect of these compounds on progesterone (P4) and ovarian oxytocin (OT) secretion. Only PCB 77 on days 1-5 and 16-18 increased P4 secretion. All PCBs decreased LH-simulated secretion of P4 from luteal cells obtained from all days of luteal phase. Dioxin-like congener (PCB 126) inhibited (P<0.05) the most evidently LH effect on P4 secretion. All congeners, except the lower doses of PCB 126, increased (P<0.05) OT secretion. They can also increase LH-stimulated secretion of OT, but the effect was dependent on the congener used and on the phase of oestrous cycle. On days 1-5 and 10-15, PCB 126 diminished LH-stimulated effect on OT secretion from luteal cells. PCB 77 (mimickig both dioxin and estradiol effect) in the higher doses, amplified effect of LH-stimulated OT secretion, while on all other days it diminished LH influence. PCB 153, which has estrogen-like properties, amplified LH effect on OT secretion during all studied days of the cycle. We conclude that PCBs (supposedly via estrogen and arylhydrocarbon - AhR receptor) may directly affect LH-stimulated function of CL. This does not appear to be a direct adverse effect on luteal steroidogenesis, but rather indirect on OT secretion from or within CL.
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PMID:Influence of polychlorinated biphenyls on LH-stimulated secretion of progestereone and oxytocin from bovine luteal cells. 1678 Jan 77

The effect of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) congeners (PCB 77, PCB 126, PCB 153) and their technical mixture-Aroclor (Ar) 1248, as well as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolite-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE; two individual isomers p,p'- and o,p'- or their mixture, 95% and 5%, respectively) at the dose of 10 ng/ml each, on the gene expression of (a) oxytocin (OT) precursor-neurophysin-oxytocin (NP-I/OT) and (b) peptidyl glycine-alpha-amidating mono-oxygenase (PGA), the terminal enzyme in the pathway of OT synthesis, was studied. Granulosa cells from follicles >1cm in diameter, collected on days 19-21 of estrous cycle, and luteal cells from corpora lutea (CL) collected on days 8-12 of the estrous cycle were used. The cells were incubated (6h) with these xenobiotics and the expression of NP-I/OT and PGA genes was determined. All PCBs increased (P<0.05) NP-I/OT gene expression in granulosa cells. Similarly, all PCBs but PCB 126 increased (P<0.05) PGA gene expression in these cells. DDT and DDE increased (P<0.05) gene expression of NP-I/OT in granulosa cells, while gene expression of PGA in these cells was stimulated (P<0.05) by DDE only. The mRNA expression for NP-I/OT and PGA in luteal cells was increased (P<0.05) by PCB 77 and PCB 153. Both DDE isomers and mixture also stimulated (P<0.05) of NP-I/OT mRNA expression, while increase (P<0.05) of PGA mRNA expression was elicited by incubation of these cells with DDE mixture and Ar 1248. Obtained data suggest that PCBs, DDT and DDE can affect the mRNA expression for NP-I/OT and PGA in bovine granulosa and luteal cells.
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PMID:The influence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolite-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) on mRNA expression for NP-I/OT and PGA, involved in oxytocin synthesis in bovine granulosa and luteal cells. 1938 38