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ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 144, Issue 10, Pages 4597-4606Publisher
ENDOCRINE SOC
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0048
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- NCI NIH HHS [SCCPRR-HD-07495] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD-16229] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK-07696] Funding Source: Medline
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Secreted frizzled-related protein-4 (sFRP-4) belongs to a family of soluble proteins that have a Frizzled-like cysteine-rich domain and function as modulators of Wnt-Frizzled (Fz) signals. As several Wnts and Fz are expressed at defined stages of follicular development in rodent ovaries, these studies were undertaken to evaluate the hormone-regulated expression and localization of sFRP-4. In the mouse ovary, the expression of sFRP-4 mRNA was up-regulated in granulosa cells of large antral follicles after human chorionic gonadotropin administration and was also elevated in corpora lutea, as determined by RT-PCR and in situ hybridization analyses. In hypophysectomized rat ovaries, sFRP-4 expression was similarly induced by human chorionic gonadotropin and further up-regulated by PRL. PRL also stimulated the secretion of sFRP-4 protein from luteinized rat granulosa cells in culture. Therefore, regulation of sFRP-4 by LH and PRL may be important for modulating Fz-1, which is known to be expressed in periovulatory follicles, and Wnt-4/Fz-4, which are expressed in corpora lutea.
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