The same luteinized granulosa-luteal cells from normal and superovulated human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)-stimulated cycles contain hCG and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1
K. Gersak et al., The same luteinized granulosa-luteal cells from normal and superovulated human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)-stimulated cycles contain hCG and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1, FERT STERIL, 71(5), 1999, pp. 902-906
Objective: To determine whether hCG and IGFBP-1 appear in the same or diffe
rent cells and in what sequence.
Design: Retrospective analysis of laboratory data.
Setting: University medical center.
Patient(s): Twenty-five women undergoing IVF-ET with natural cycles and 25
women having stimulated IVF-ET.
Intervention(s): Cells were obtained from dominant follicles in women with
natural cycles and from the follicles from hMG- and hCG-stimulated cycles.
Main Outcome Measure(s): Detection and localization of hCG and IGFBP-1 in g
ranulosa-luteal cells using double immunocytochemical staining. Measurement
of hCG and ICFBP-1 in follicular fluid and serum.
Result(s): Three types of hCC staining were found: on the cell surface, on
the cell surface and in the cytoplasm, and in the cytoplasm alone. IGFBP-1
stained diffusely in the cytoplasm and was found only in those cells that w
ere luteinized and contained hCG. ICFBP-1 and hCG were colocalized in the s
ame cells. There was a positive correlation between follicular fluid hCG an
d IGFBP-1 levels, but only in natural IVF-ET cycles.
Conclusion(s): HCG-driven luteinization is required for IGFBP-1 synthesis t
o take place in granulosa cells. (C) 1999 by American Society for Reproduct
ive Medicine.