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Localization of 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase throughout gestation in human placenta
E Dupont, F Labrie, V Luu-The and G Pelletier
Medical Research Council Group in Molecular Endocrinology, CHUL Research Center, Quebec, Canada.
17 beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17 beta-HSD) is the enzyme responsible for the formation of all sex steroids in gonadal as well as extragonadal tissues. To obtain more information about the age-specific expression of 17 beta-HSD in the human placenta, we have localized this enzyme by immunocytochemistry at the light microscopic level at different periods of gestation. In the 7- and 9-week-old placenta, immunostaining was detected exclusively in the cytoplasm of the syncytiotrophoblast. Between the tenth and thirteenth weeks of gestation, immunolabeling was also observed in the cytoplasm of the cytotrophoblastic cells, suggesting that these cells could be transiently involved in the biosynthesis of sex steroids. Interestingly, between the fourteenth and twenty-fifth weeks of gestation, 17 beta-HSD was observed in both the cytoplasm and nucleus of the syncytiotrophoblast. The reaction product was much more intense in nuclei than in cytoplasm. During the last trimester of gestation, strong immunocytochemical staining was observed in all the nuclei of the syncytiotrophoblast, the cytoplasm being unstained. The meaning of this nuclear staining for 17 beta-HSD is still unclear and remains to be extensively investigated.
Volume 39,
Issue 10,
pp. 1403-1407,
10/01/1991
Copyright © 1991 by The Histochemical Society
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