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Different secretion patterns of matrix metalloproteinases and IL-8 and effect of corticotropin-releasing hormone in preterm and term cervical fibroblasts

In English

Författare

  • A. Dubicke
  • Anna Åkerud
  • M. Sennstrom
  • R. Rafik Hamad
  • B. Bystrom
  • Anders Malmström
  • G. Ekman-Ordeberg

Summary, in English

The aims of the present study were to compare the levels of mRNA and protein expression of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1, -3, -8 and -9 in human cervical tissue in preterm and term labor as well as not in labor and to determine if corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) has an effect on MMP-1, -3 and interleukin (IL)-8 secretion in both preterm and term cervical fibroblasts. Cervical biopsies were taken from 60 women: 18 at preterm labor, 7 at preterm not in labor, 18 at term labor and 17 at term not in labor. ELISA and Immulite were used for protein and real-time RT-PCR for mRNA analysis. Cervical fibroblast cultures were incubated for 18 h with different CRH concentrations (10(-13)-10(-6) M). The mRNA expression of MMP-1, -3 and -9 was higher in laboring groups compared with term not in labor. Protein levels of MMP-8 and -9 were higher in term in labor group compared with non-laboring groups. There were no significant differences in mRNA and protein expression between the preterm and respective term control groups. CRH significantly increased secretion of IL-8 in preterm and term cervical fibroblasts compared with controls. The secretion of IL-8 and MMP-1 was significantly higher and MMP-3 secretion lower in preterm cervical fibroblasts. In conclusion, cervical ripening at preterm seems to be a similar inflammatory process as at term with CRH involved. However, preterm and term cervical fibroblasts might have different phenotypes based on different secretion patterns of IL-8, MMP-1 and MMP-3.

Avdelning/ar

  • Matrix Biology

Publiceringsår

2008

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

641-647

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volym

14

Issue

11

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Matrix Biology

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1460-2407