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Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Vol. 46, 679-688, May 1998, Copyright © 1998, The Histochemical Society, Inc.

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Immunocytochemical and In Situ Hybridization Studies of the Distribution of Calbindin D9k in the Bovine Placenta Throughout Pregnancy

Leonid Nikitenkoa,b, Geoffrey Morgana, Sergei I. Kolesnikovb, and F.B. Peter Woodinga
a The Babraham Institute, Cambridge United Kingdom
b Institute of Paediatrics and Human Reproduction, East Siberian Scientific Medical Centre, Academy of Medical Sciences of Russia, Irkutsk, Russia

Correspondence to: F.B. Peter Wooding, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge CB2 4AT, UK.

The fetus must transport considerable and increasing amounts of calcium across the placental trophoblast epithelium to support growth and development and bone formation. Active calcium transport across epithelia has been shown to correlate with calbindin D9k or 28k content. This study examined the distribution of calbindin D9k (9CBP) protein and mRNA during pregnancy in the bovine placenta to determine its possible role in calcium transport in this system. The immunocytochemical results show 9CBP in an increasing percentage of interplacentomal uninucleate trophoblast cells until, at term, all show a level at least eight times that of any other placental cell. There is a similar, although smaller, rise in their 9CBP mRNA content. The mature interplacentomal binucleate cell (~5% of the total) contains no 9CBP at any stage of pregnancy. In interplacentomal uterine epithelium, 9CBP protein and mRNA decrease to zero in late pregnancy but the glands maintain constant low levels throughout. In the placentome trophoblast, uninucleate cells show insignificant amounts but binucleate cells (15–20% of the total trophoblast cells) contain considerable levels of both 9CBP protein and mRNA, as do all the uninucleate uterine epithelial cells. The placentomal binucleate cells show peak values at mid-pregnancy; the placentomal uterine epithelium shows only small changes in levels in the second half of pregnancy. Increase in fetal calcium demand in the second half of pregnancy therefore correlates with a major increase in 9CBP only in the interplacentomal trophoblast, as we have also shown in the sheep and goat, indicating an important role for this region in active calcium transport by the ruminant placenta. The 9CBP is distributed uniformly in the cytosol and nucleoplasm, supporting a role in facilitated diffusion of calcium through the cell rather than a vesicular shuttle system. (J Histochem Cytochem 46:679–688, 1998)

Key Words: calbindin D9k, immunocytochemistry, placenta, cow, in situ hybridization


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