1. Maternal Neutrophil Depletion Fails to Avert Systemic Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Early Pregnancy Defects in Mice
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John T. Benjamin, Bibhash C. Paria, and Sourav Panja
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0301 basic medicine ,Lipopolysaccharides ,Chemokine ,Lipopolysaccharide ,Neutrophils ,chemokines ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pregnancy ,implantation ,Biology (General) ,Pregnancy Complications, Infectious ,Spectroscopy ,early pregnancy ,biology ,lipopolysaccharide ,non-decidual stromal zone ,General Medicine ,Computer Science Applications ,Chemistry ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Female ,Signal Transduction ,Stromal cell ,decidual stromal zone ,QH301-705.5 ,leukocytes ,Catalysis ,Article ,Inorganic Chemistry ,Andrology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Immune system ,medicine ,Animals ,Blastocyst ,Embryo Implantation ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,QD1-999 ,Molecular Biology ,Inflammation ,uterus ,business.industry ,Monocyte ,Macrophages ,Organic Chemistry ,medicine.disease ,cytokines ,Toll-Like Receptor 4 ,Disease Models, Animal ,030104 developmental biology ,chemistry ,TRIF ,Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88 ,biology.protein ,business - Abstract
Maternal infection-induced early pregnancy complications arise from perturbation of the immune environment at the uterine early blastocyst implantation site (EBIS), yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we demonstrated in a mouse model that the progression of normal pregnancy from days 4 to 6 induced steady migration of leukocytes away from the uterine decidual stromal zone (DSZ) that surrounds the implanted blastocyst. Uterine macrophages were found to be CD206+ M2-polarized. While monocytes were nearly absent in the DSZ, DSZ cells were found to express monocyte marker protein Ly6C. Systemic endotoxic lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exposure on day 5 of pregnancy led to: (1) rapid (at 2 h) induction of neutrophil chemoattractants that promoted huge neutrophil infiltrations at the EBISs by 24 h, (2) rapid (at 2 h) elevation of mRNA levels of MyD88, but not Trif, modulated cytokines at the EBISs, and (3) dose-dependent EBIS defects by day 7 of pregnancy. Yet, elimination of maternal neutrophils using anti-Ly6G antibody prior to LPS exposure failed to avert LPS-induced EBIS defects allowing us to suggest that activation of Tlr4-MyD88 dependent inflammatory pathway is involved in LPS-induced defects at EBISs. Thus, blocking the activation of the Tlr4-MyD88 signaling pathway may be an interesting approach to prevent infection-induced pathology at EBISs.
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- 2021