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. 2023 Feb;174(4):431-434.
doi: 10.1007/s10517-023-05723-3. Epub 2023 Mar 7.

Functioning of P-Glycoprotein during Pregnancy in Rabbits

N M Popova  1 , A V Shchulkin  2 , I V Chernykh  2 , P Yu Mylnikov  2 , E N Yakusheva  2
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Functioning of P-Glycoprotein during Pregnancy in Rabbits

N M Popova et al. Bull Exp Biol Med. 2023 Feb.

Abstract

The level P-glycoprotein (Pgp) in organs of pregnant rabbits and its content and activity in the placental barrier at different stages of pregnancy were studied. An increase in Pgp content in the jejunum on days 7, 14, 21, and 28 of pregnancy in comparison with this parameter non-pregnant females was revealed by ELISA; in the liver, Pgp content was higher on day 7 and tended to increase on day 14; in the kidney and cerebral cortex, Pgp content was higher on day 28 of pregnancy in parallel with an increase in serum progesterone concentration. We also observed a decrease in Pgp content in the placenta on days 21 and 28 of pregnancy in comparison with day 14 and a decrease in Pgp activity in the placental barrier, which was confirmed by enhanced penetration of fexofenadine (Pgp substrate) through the barrier.

Keywords: P-glycoprotein (Pgp, ABCB1-protein); fexofenadine; protein activity; protein content.

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