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Biology of Reproduction, Vol 31, 141-147, Copyright © 1984 by Society for the Study of Reproduction

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Evidence for an inhibitory influence of rat placental lactogen on prolactin release in vitro

JL Voogt

Incubation of placental tissue from Day 11 pregnant rats for increasing periods of time resulted in proportionately more rat placental lactogen (rPL) release. The amount of placental tissue incubated correlated directly with the amount of rPL released into the medium. When placentas were coincubated with anterior pituitaries from ovariectomized rats, prolactin release was significantly inhibited. When media from incubations which had contained varying numbers of Day 11 placentas for 24 h were added to vials containing anterior pituitaries, prolactin release was inhibited, proportionate to the amount of rPL in the media. Media from incubations of Day 9 placentas, which contained very little rPL, had no effect on prolactin release. When medium containing anterior pituitary tissue was incubated for 24 h, pituitaries removed, and the medium incubated with placental tissue for an additional 24 h, there was no difference in prolactin levels compared to incubation medium not containing placental tissue. Addition of a trypsin inhibitor to the medium containing placental tissue did not augment the amount of prolactin remaining after a 24-h incubation. Thus it would appear that the placenta does not release a substance into the medium that destroys prolactin. This suggests that secretions from the placenta, presumably rPL, can exert a negative feedback on prolactin secretion at the level of the anterior pituitary.


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