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Original Article

Bioconversion of arachidonic acid in human pregnant uterine cervix

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Pages 259-265 | Received 29 Feb 1984, Accepted 17 May 1984, Published online: 03 Aug 2009
 

Abstract

The in vitro conversion of [14C]arachidonic acid by endocervical mucosa and cervical tissue specimens obtained in first trimester (9-12 w) and term pregnant patients (37 – 39 w) was studied in whole-cell homogenates. All radiolabelled products of the arachidonic acid cascade were extracted, purified and separated utilizing silicic acid chromatography, thin-layer chromatography and reversed phase partition chromatography and identified with radio-gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass specto-metry. Both types of tissue produced PGF and PGE2, as well as TxB2. In cervical tissue specimens there was a significant increase in the production of all these three prostaglan-dins as the pregnancy progressed, whereas no such difference was seen in homogenates of endocervical mucosa. In both endocervical mucosa and cervical tissue specimens there was a highly significant increase in the production of a so-far unknown compound(s), in samples from term patients as compared with samples from first-trimester patients. The possible participation of this metabolite of [14C]arachidonic acid in the regulation of cervical ripening is discussed.

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