Boeckel, SRV;
Hrabalkova, L;
Baker, TL;
MacPherson, H;
Frew, L;
Boyle, AK;
McHugh, BJ;
... Stock, SJ; + view all
(2019)
Cathelicidins and the Onset of Labour.
Scientific Reports
, 9
, Article 7356. 10.1038/s41598-019-43766-7.
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Abstract
Preterm birth, defned as delivery before 37 weeks of gestation, is the leading cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity. Infection and infammation are frequent antecedents of spontaneous preterm birth. Cathelicidin, an antimicrobial host defence peptide, is induced by infection and infammation and although expressed in the reproductive tract and fetal tissues, its role in the pathogenesis of spontaneous preterm birth is unknown. Here we demonstrate that cathelicidin expression is increased at RNA and protein level in the mouse uterus in a model of infammation-induced labour, where ultrasound guided intrauterine injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) at E17 stimulates preterm delivery within 24hours. Cathelicidin-defcient (Camp−/−) mice are less susceptible to preterm delivery than wild type mice following intrauterine injection of 1μg of LPS, and this is accompanied by a decrease in circulating IL-6, an infammatory mediator implicated in the onset of labour. We also show that the proportion of cathelicidin expressing cells in the myometrium is higher in samples obtained from women in labour at term than pre-labour. Together, these data suggest that cathelicidin has roles in mediating pro-infammatory responses in a murine model of infammation-induced labour, and in human term labour.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Cathelicidins and the Onset of Labour |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-019-43766-7 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43766-7 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health > Maternal and Fetal Medicine |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082092 |
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