Cervical dilatation related to uterine electromyographic activity and endocrinological changes during prostaglandin F2α-induced parturition in cows

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 536-542

  Breeveld Dwarkasing, V N A ^a   Struijk, P C ^b   Lotgering, F K ^b   Eijskoot, F ^b   Kindahl, H ^c   Van der Weijden, G C ^a   Taverne, M A M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cervix; Female reproductive tract; Parturition; Steroid hormones; Uterus

Indexed keywords

13,14 DIHYDRO 15 OXOPROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE ACTION; INJECTION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROSTAGLANDIN BLOOD LEVEL; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DINOPROST; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OXYTOCICS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGESTERONE; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037305523     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.005900     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Friedman EA. Primigravid labor: a graphicostatistical analysis. Obstet Gynecol 1955; 6:567-589.
2. Friedman EA. Labor in multiparas: a graphicostatistical analysis. Obstet Gynecol 1956; 8:691-703.
3. van Dessel HJ, Frijns JH, Kok FT, Wallenburg HC. Ultrasound assessment of cervical dynamics during the first stage of labor. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 1994; 53:123-127.
4. Antonucci MC, Pitman MC, Eid T, Steer PJ, Genevier ES. Simultaneous monitoring of head to cervix forces, intrauterine pressure and cervical dilatation during labour. Med Eng Phys 1997; 19:317-326.
5. Kok FJGT. Ultrasonic cervimetry: a study on the behaviour of the uterine cervix during labour. Rotterdam: Erasmus University, Bronder Offset B.V.; 1977. Ph.D. Thesis.
6. Fernandes AP, Szelazek JT. Reid GJ, Wodzicki AM, Allardice JG, McCoshen JA. Phasic maternal secretion during labor is associated with cervical dilatation and second stage uterine activity. J Soc Gynecol Invest 1995; 2:597-601.
7. Impey L, Hobson J, O'Herlihy C. Graphical analysis of actively managed labor: prospective computation of labor: progress in 500 consecutive nulliparous women in spontaneous labor at term. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2000; 183:438-443.
8. Oláh KS. Changes in cervical electromyographic activity and their correlation with the cervical response to myometrial activity during labour. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 1994; 57:157-159.
9. Rüsse M. Der Geburtsablauf beim Rind. Eine betrachtung des funktionellen Geschehen bei der Normalgeburt. Munich: Veterinary Faculty of the University of Munich; 1963. Ph.D. Thesis.
10. Gregory RM, Untersuchungen über die Daur der Öffnungsphase beim Rind sowie irhe Beinflussung mit einem β-Rezeptoren stimulerenden Präparat. Hanover: Tierarztliche Hochschule; 1977. Ph.D. Thesis.
11. Breeveld-Dwarkasing VNA, Struijk PC, Eijskoot F, Lotgering FK, van Dissel-Emiliani, van der Weijden GC, Taverne MAM. Ultrasonic cervimetry to study the dilatation of the caudal cervix of the cow at parturition. Theriogenology 2002; 57:1989-2002.
12. Shi L, Shi SQ, Saade GR, Chwalisz K, Garfield RE. Changes in resistance and collagen fluorescence during gestation in rat. J Perinat Med 1999; 27:188-194.
13. Winkler M, Oberpichler A, Tschesche H, Ruck P, Fischer DC, Rath W. Collagenolysis in the lower uterine segment during parturition at term: correlations with stage of cervical dilatation and duration of labor. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1999; 181:153-158.
14. Ledger WL, Webster M, Harrison LP, Anderson ABM, Turnbull AC. Increase in cervical extensibility during labor induced after isolation of the cervix from the uterus in the pregnant sheep. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1985; 151:397-402.
15. Owiny JR, Fitzpatrick RJ. The effect of clenbuterol (4-amino-α-[(tertbutyl-amino) methyl]-3-5-dichol-benzoylalcohol), a β2-mimetic, and of sodium meclofenamate, a prostaglandin synthetase inhibitor, on cervical ripening in periparturient sheep. Anim Reprod Sci 1992; 27:41-48.
16. Lindgren L. The influence of uterine motility upon cervical dilatation in labor. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1973: 117:530-536.
17. Allman AC, Genevier ES, Johnson MR, Steer PJ. Head to cervix force: an important physiological variable in labour. 2. Peak active force, peak active pressure and mode of delivery. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1996; 103:769-775.
18. Van Dessel T. Frijns JH, Kok FT, Wallenburg HC. Assessment of cervical dilatation during labor: a review. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 1991; 41:165-171.
19. Lucidi RS, Blumenfeld LA, Chez RA. Cervimetry: a review of methods for measuring cervical dilatation during labor. Obstet Gynecol Surv 2000; 55:312-320.
20. Janszen BPM, Knijn H, van der Weijden GC, Bevers MM, Dieleman SJ, Taverne MAM. Flumethason-induced calving is preceded by a period of myometrial inhibition during luteolysis. Biol Reprod 1990; 43:466-471.
21. Dieleman SJ, Bevers MM. Effects of monoclonal antibody against PMSG administered shortly after the preovulatory LH surge on time and number of ovulations in PMSG/PG treated cows. J Reprod Fertil 1987; 81:533-542.
22. Dieleman SJ, Schoenmakers HJN. Radioimmunoassays to determine the presence of progesterone and estrone in the starfish Asterias Rubens. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1979; 39:534-542.
23. 2α, In: Lands WEM, Smith WL (eds.), Methods in Enzymology, vol. 86. New York: Academic Press; 1982: 320-339.
24. Janszen BPM, Bevers MM, Ravenshorst MM, van der Weijden GC, Dieleman SJ, Taverne MAM. The relation between prostaglandin-induced luteolysis and temporary inhibition of myometrial activity in late pregnant cows with progestagen containing ear implants. J Reprod Fertil 1993; 97:457-461.
25. Koets AP, de Schwartz N, Tooten P, Kankofer M, Broekhuijsen-Davies JM, Rutten VPMG, van Leengoed LAMG, Taverne MAM, Gruys E. Release of proinflammatory cytokines related to luteolysis and the periparturient acute phase response in prostaglandin-induced parturition in cows. Theriogenology 1998; 49:797-812.
26. Kündig H, Thun R, Zerobin B, Bachmann B. Die uterusmotorik des Rindes während spatgrävidität, geburt und puerperium. I. Die spontanmotorik. Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd 1990; 132:77-84.
27. Pope GS, Gupta SK, Murro JB. Progesterone levels in the systemic plasma of pregnant, cycling and ovariectomized cows. J Reprod Fertil 1969; 20:369-381.
28. Stabenfeldt GH, Osburn BJ, Ewing LL. Peripheral plasma progesterone levels in the cow during pregnancy and parturition. Am J Physiol 1970; 218:571-575.
29. Edqvist LE, Ekman L, Gustafsson B, Johansson DDB. Peripheral plasma levels of oestrogens and progesterone during late bovine pregnancy. Acta Endocrinol 1973; 72:81-88.
30. Hunter JT, Fairclough RJ, Peterson AJ, Welch RAS. Foetal and maternal hormonal changes preceding normal bovine parturition. Acta Endocrinol 1977; 84:653-662.
31. Möstl E, Möstl K, Choi HS, Dreir HK, Stockl W, Bamberg E. Plasma levels of androstenedione, epitestosterone, testosterone and oestrogens in cows at parturition. J Endocrinol 1981; 89:251-255.
32. Fuchs AR, Helmer H, Berhens O, Liu HC, Antonian L, Chang SM, Fields MJ. Oxytocine and bovine parturition: a steep rise in endometrial oxytocine receptors precedes onset of labor. Biol Reprod 1992; 47:937-944.
33. Cole WC, Garfield RE. Evidence for physiological regulation of myometrial gap-junction permeability. J Am Physiol 1986; 251:411-420.
34. Smith GCS, Wu WX, Nathanielsz PW. Effects of gestational age and labor on the expression of prostanoid receptor genes in pregnant baboon cervix. Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat 2001; 63:153-163.
35. Winkler M, Rath W. Changes in the cervical extracellular matrix during pregnancy and parturition. J Perinat Med 1999; 27:45-60.
36. Chwalisz K, Garfield RE. New molecular challenges in the induction of cervical ripening. Nitric oxide as the final metabolic mediator of cervical ripening. Hum Reprod 1998; 13:245-252.
37. Fossang AJ, Handley CJ, Santer V, Lowther DA, Thorburn GD. Pregnancy-related changes in the connective tissue of the ovine cervix. Biol Reprod 1984; 30:1223-1235.
38. Cabrol D, Huszar G, Romero R, Naftolin E Gestational changes in the rat uterine cervix: protein, collagen and glycosaminoglycan content. In: Ellwood DA, Anderson ABM (eds.), The Cervix in Pregnancy and Labour: Clinical and Biochemical Investigations. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1981: 34-39.
39. Leppert PC, Kokenyesi R, Klemenich CA, Fisher J, Weiss G, Ross MG, Woods JR, Longo L, Taylor RN, Cruikshank S. Further evidence of a decorin-collagen interaction in the disruption of cervical collagen fibres during rat gestation. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2000; 182:805-812.
40. Asselin E, Fortier MA. Detection and regulation of the messenger for a putative bovine endometrial 9-keto-prostaglandin E(2) reductase: effect of oxytocin and interferon-tau. Biol Reprod 2000; 62:125-131.
41. Peplow PV. Uterine production of prostaglandins F2 alpha and 6-keto-F1-alpha by ovariectomized pregnant rats receiving antiprogesterone steroid or in which progesterone has been withdrawn. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 1991; 44:217-222.
42. Buhimschi I, Ali M, Jain V, Chwalisz K, Garfield RE. Differential regulation of nitric oxide in the rat uterus and cervix during pregnancy and labour. Hum Reprod 1996: 8:1755-1766.
43. Ali M, Buhimschi I, Chwalisz K, Garfield RE. Changes in the expression of the nitric oxide synthase isoforms in rat uterus and cervix during pregnancy and parturition. Mol Hum Reprod 1997; 3:995-1003.
44. Garfield RE, Saade G, Buhimshi C, Buhimshi 1, Shi L, Shi S-Q, Chwalisz K. Control and assessment of the uterus and cervix during pregnancy and labour. Hum Reprod Update 1998; 4:673-695.
45. Panjtar M, Verdenik I. Electromyographic activity in cervices with very low Bishop score during labor. Int J Gynecol Obstet 1995; 49: 277-281.
46. Olah KS, Gee H, Brown JS. Cervical contractions: the response of the cervix to oxytocic stimulation in the latent phase of labour. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1993; 100:1-6.
47. Toutain PL, Garcia-Villar R, Hanzen C, Ruckebusch Y. Electrical and mechanical activity of the cervix in the ewe during pregnancy and parturition. J Reprod Fertil 1983; 68:195-204.