Biochemical characterization of benomyl inhibition on endometrial growth during decidualization in rats.
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The antimitotic action of the systemic benzimidazole carbamate compound, benomyl, the basis for its fungitoxicity, was assessed in a mammalian system by selected biochemical endpoints of endometrial proliferation during decidualization in rats. The deciduoma, artificially induced on Day 4 of pseudopregnancy (PG), represents the maternal portion of the placenta that attains maximal growth between Days 9-11 PG. Deciduoma induction by surgical uterine trauma normally prolongs PG into the decidualization process. Measured endometrial parameters were the wet weight, protein for hypertrophy, DNA indicative of hyperplasia; enzymatic biomarkers- isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH) and the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs); and serum progesterone which hormonally maintains decidual growth. Benomyl was administered by oral gavage in daily doses (500 mg/kg/rat in corn oil for 5 days, PG Days 5-9) and animals were sacrificed on PG Day 10. Benomyl caused significant reduction (P < 0.001) in endometrial wet weight, protein and DNA concentrations. ICDH activity was also significantly reduced (P < 0.01) following benomyl treatment. Of the two MMP species (72 and 92 kDa), whereas the 72 kDa was only slightly affected, the 92 kDa MMP was suppressed 2-3 fold by benomyl. Benomyl was without effect on the progesterone concentration. The findings suggest that during decidualization in rats, the anti-deciduogenic, antimitotic action of post-traumal benomyl treatment which occurred via the biochemical molecules (protein, DNA, ICDH and the MMPs) apparently was not mediated by progesterone.