Endocrinology, Vol 96, 1187-1195, Copyright © 1975 by Endocrine Society

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Characterization of rat chorionic mammotropin

PA Kelly, RP Shiu, MC Robertson and HG Friesen

A placental lactogen or chorionic mammotropin (rCM) has been identified in the serum of pregnant rats by radioreceptor assay (RRA). Two peaks of activity were found, the first between days 11-13 and the second between days 17-21 of pregnancy. Gel filtration of day 12 serum or placental extracts revealed two peaks of lactogenic activity, the first eluting ahead of and the second appearing immediately after 125I-hPRL (human prolactin). On the other hand, when serum or placental extracts from day 17-21 pregnant rats were fractionated in the same manner, only a single peak of lactogenic activity was eluted after 125I-hPROL. The placental concentration of rCM increased from 11 mug/g wet weight at day 12 to 74 mug/g at days 14-15, after which the concentration declined to 29 mug/g on day 21. Electrophoresis of a fraction from G- 100 column of a day 12 0r day 20 placental extract or serum with a V- e/V-o ratio of 2.08 revealed a single peak of lactogenic activity by RRA with an Rf equal to 0.43. Large MW rCM (V-e/V-o ratio of 1.35) from serum had an Rf equal to 0.52 whereas the large MW species from placental extracts had a mobility similar to that of small MW fraction. The half-time disappearance rate of serum rCM on day 12 is 19.5 min compared to 1.2 min on days 17-21 of pregnancy.

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