Abstract
The distribution of the extra domain-containing form of cellular fibronectin was studied in human placentas at different stages of maturation by using the monoclonal antibody 52DH1 in indirect immunofluorescence. In early chorionic tissue (7 to 10 weeks post menstruationem) cellular fibronectin was codistributed with laminin and type IV collagen in the trophoblastic basement membranes. At weeks 11 to 12 the trophoblastic basement membranes were negative but positivity was typically revealed in distinct aggregates in the stromal tissue. In second-trimester and term placentas the immunoreactivity was confined to the vessel endothelia of villous stroma. Extravillous trophoblast cells seen in placentas at different stages did not show positivity. Double staining with the 52DH1 monoclonal antibody and polyclonal fibronectin antibodies showed that both in the early and term placentas there was much fibrillar positivity only revealed with the polyclonal antibodies. The present results show that cellular fibronectin is a prominent component of early trophoblastic basement membranes and may thus play a special role in the maturation of chorionic villi.
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