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Perhaps this is a mechanism of ensuring paracrine, but not autocrine, effects of PDGF in cytokine-stimulated chondrocytes.
It is secreted into the circulation from the stomach, but is also synthesised in a number of other tissues, including the kidney, pituitary, and hypothalamus, suggesting that the hormone has both distant and local (endocrine and paracrine) effects.
They may represent a unique paracrine mechanism, so called "targeted delivery," by which certain growth factor (vesicle content) is delivered by chemotaxis to certain type/stage specific target cells expressing receptor for Thy-1 ligand.
Because the OSE does not appear to express BMP receptors, the OSE-derived BMP-4 probably acts as a paracrine growth factor in the underlying stroma.
Very little is known about the role of the TE in folliculogenesis: however this new finding raises the possibility that BMP-3b and -4 could have autocrine actions on TE histogenesis and/or paracrine actions on theca/follicle morphogenesis.