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Vol. 273, Issue 5, C1707-C1713, November 1997
Departments of 1 Reproductive Biology, 2 Physiology and Biophysics, and 3 Environmental Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
The objective of the study was to determine the effect of retinoids on paracellular resistance across the cervical epithelium and the mechanisms involved. The experimental model was cultures of human CaSki cells on filters, which retain phenotypic characteristics of the endocervical epithelium. End points for paracellular resistance were measurements of transepithelial electrical resistance and fluxes of pyranine (a trisulfonic acid that traverses the epithelium via the intercellular space). Paracellular resistance was significantly increased in cells grown in retinoid-free medium; the effect could be blocked and reversed with all-trans-retinoic acid (tRA) and with agonists of RAR and RXR receptors but only partially with retinol. The effect of tRA was dose dependent and saturable, with a 50% effective concentration of 0.8 nM. The increases in paracellular resistance induced by vitamin A deficiency required longer incubation in retinoid-free medium than decreases in resistance induced by retinoic acid. tRA had only a minimal effect on paracellular resistance in cells maintained in regular medium. Retinoid-free medium increased and tRA decreased the relative cation mobility across CaSki cultures. Also the effects of tRA were nonadditive to those of cytochalasin D (which decreases tight junctional resistance) and additive to those of ionomycin (which decreases the resistance of the lateral intercellular space), suggesting that tRA modulates tight junctional resistance. It is concluded that vitamin A determines the degree of paracellular resistance across cervical cells by a mechanism that involves modulation of tight junctional resistance.
vitamin A; cervical mucus; intercellular lateral space; transepithelial transport; paracellular transport; permeability
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