Inhibition of rat embryo implantation in the gossypol-treated uterine horn
1991
Lin, Y.C. | Rajamahendran, P. | Rikihisa, Y.
We have developed a method to test the effect of gossypol on prevention of embryo implantation in the uterine horn. On the day of proestrus, gossypol (at a dose of 50, 100, 150, 200 and 500 micrograms per uterine horn was injected directly into the lumen of the right uterine horn. The left uterine horn was injected with 100 microliters buffer. The rats were then mated with fertility proven males on the same day. The day of sperm-positive vaginal smear was designated as Day 0 of pregnancy. The number of implantation sites in both control and gossypol-treated horns was examined on Day 8 of pregnancy by laparotomy. The number of pups born was counted after parturition. At laparotomy, the percentages of pregnant animals with positive implantation sites in the gossypol-treated uterine horn (at a dose of 500, 200, 150, 100 and 50 micrograms per uterine horn) were 0, 0, 0, 10 and 44%, respectively. By contrast, implantation sites were present in 100% of the control horns of the same rats. The average numbers of total implantation sites in both horns vs the number of pups born to gossypol-treated animals using 500, 200, 150, 100, and 50 micrograms doses were 5.60 +/- 1.25 vs 4.00 +/- 1.00, 5.83 +/- 1.30 vs 4.70 +/- 1.10, 5.80 +/- 1.10 vs 5.50 +/- 1.20, 11.50 +/- 1.00 vs 9.50 +/- 1.50 and 11.67 +/- 1.20 vs 9.30 +/- 1.20, respectively. Gossypol metabolite completely inhibited embryo implantation when administered at 5.30 micrograms per uterine horn. The potency of the gossypol metabolite in preventing embryo implantation is estimated to be at least 28 times higher than the parent compound.
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