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Melatonin plays a crucial role in enhancing reproductive performance in small ruminants. This paper reveals the effects of exogenous melatonin on the placental and endometrial rearrangement in early pregnancy in sheep.
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Early pregnancy losses cause 25% of pregnancy failures in small ruminants because of asynchrony between conceptus and uterine signals. In this context, melatonin plays a crucial role in sheep reproductive dynamics, but little is known about its effects during the peri-implantation period. We hypothesized that melatonin supports embryo implantation by modulating the uterine microenvironment. This study aimed to assess the effects of exogenous melatonin on the endometrial and early placental rearrangement. Ten multiparous ewes either did (MEL, n = 5) or did not (CTR, n = 5) receive a subcutaneous melatonin implant (18 mg) 50 days before a synchronized mating. On day 21 of pregnancy, the sheep were euthanized. MEL ewes exhibited a higher prolificity rate (2.8 vs 2.0 embryos/ewe) and plasma progesterone levels (3.84 vs 2.96 ng/mL, P < 0.05) than did CTR ewes. Groups did not differ significantly in embryo crown-rump length. MEL placentas had significantly (P < 0.001) more binucleated trophoblast cells in the chorion region, and ovine placental lactogen expression was significantly (P < 0.05) more strongly upregulated than in CTR. Exogenous melatonin increased significantly (P < 0.05) gene expression of angiogenic factors (VEGFA, VEGFR1, IGF1R), IFNAR2, and PR in the caruncular endometrium. Expression of the MT2 receptor in the endometrium and placenta was significantly (P < 0.05) higher in the MEL group. These results indicate that melatonin implants acted differentially on uterine and placental rearrangement. Melatonin increases differentiation in the placenta and induces changes that could promote vessel maturation in the endometrium, suggesting that it enhances the uterine microenvironment in the early stage of pregnancy in sheep.
Instituto de Fisiología. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
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Chlamydia trachomatis is the most commonly reported agent of sexually transmitted bacterial infections worldwide. This pathogen frequently leads to persistent, long-term, subclinical infections, which in turn may cause severe pathology in susceptible hosts. This is in part due to the strategies that Chlamydia trachomatis uses to survive within epithelial cells and to evade the host immune response, such as subverting intracellular trafficking, interfering signaling pathways and preventing apoptosis. Innate immune receptors such as toll-like receptors expressed on epithelial and immune cells in the genital tract mediate the recognition of chlamydial molecular patterns. After bacterial recognition, a subset of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines are continuously released by epithelial cells. The innate immune response is followed by the initiation of the adaptive response against Chlamydia trachomatis, which in turn may result in T helper 1-mediated protection or in T helper 2-mediated immunopathology. Understanding the molecular mechanisms developed by Chlamydia trachomatis to avoid killing and host immune response would be crucial for designing new therapeutic approaches and developing protective vaccines. In this review, we focus on chlamydial survival strategies and the elicited immune responses in male genital tract infections.
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Ambientales, Universidad Juan Agustín Maza, Mendoza, Argentina
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Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad Juan Agustín Maza, Mendoza, Argentina
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Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Ambientales, Universidad Juan Agustín Maza, Mendoza, Argentina
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Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad Juan Agustín Maza, Mendoza, Argentina
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Instituto de Histología y Embriología de Mendoza, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
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Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
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Instituto de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
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Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
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Instituto de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
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The endocrine and immunological disruption induced by hyperthyroidism could alter gestation, placenta, and fetal development. This study suggests an immunological role of thyroid hormones in gestation.
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Thyroid dysfunctions lead to metabolic, angiogenic, and developmental alterations at the maternal–fetal interface that cause reproductive complications. Thyroid hormones (THs) act through their nuclear receptors that interact with other steroid hormone receptors. Currently, immunological regulation by thyroid status has been characterized to a far less extent. It is well known that THs exert regulatory function on immune cells and modulate cytokine expression, but how hyperthyroidism (hyper) modulates placental immunological aspects leading to placental alterations is unknown. This work aims to throw light on how hyper modulates immunological and morphological placental aspects. Control and hyper (induced by a daily s.c. injection of T4 0.25 mg/kg) Wistar rats were mated 8 days after starting T4 treatment and euthanized on days 19 (G19) and 20 (G20) of pregnancy. We removed the placenta to perform qPCR, flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, Western blot and histological analysis, and amniotic fluid and serum to evaluate hormone levels. We observed that hyper increases the fetal number, fetal weight, and placental weight on G19. Moreover, hyper induced an endocrine imbalance with higher serum corticosterone and changed placental morphology, specifically the basal zone and decidua. These changes were accompanied by an increased mRNA expression of glucocorticoid receptor and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, an increased mRNA and protein expression of prolactin receptor, and an increase in CD45+ infiltration. Finally, by in vitro assays, we evidenced that TH induced immune cell activation. In summary, we demonstrated that hyper modulates immunological and morphological placental aspects and induces fetal phenotypic changes, which could be related to preterm labor observed in hyper.
