ISSN:
0730-2312
Schlagwort(e):
first-trimester
;
placenta
;
maltooligosaccharides
;
α-amylase
;
microvilli
;
brush border
;
maternal-fetal interface
;
membrane
;
glycogen
;
Life and Medical Sciences
;
Cell & Developmental Biology
Quelle:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Thema:
Biologie
,
Chemie und Pharmazie
,
Medizin
Notizen:
The syncytiotrophoblastic brush border of the human placenta forms the maternal-fetal interface and is an important determinant of placental function. Electron micrographs of fresh brush border preparations isolated from first-trimester human placentas showed membrane vesicles, open-ended microvilli, and numerous glycogen particles. Analysis of the microvillar membranes for several plasma and intracellular membrane markers showed a high degree of purification, comparable to the results reported for the isolation of microvilli from full-term human placentas. The microvillar preparations from first-trimester placentas, however, also contained the enzymes necessary to synthesize and degrade glycogen. The degradation resulted in the accumulation of maltotriose and maltotetraose, apparently due to the action of a liver-type α-amylase. The occurrence of this enzyme and the enzymes for synthesizing glycogen in this brush border fraction is probably associated with the necessity for an extremely active glucose transport and liver-like storage system within the fetal tissue at this fetal-maternal membrane interface.
Zusätzliches Material:
3 Ill.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcb.240220105
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