Vascular and myometrial changes in the human uterus at term

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-65

  Leong, Anthony S Y ^a   Norman, Jane E ^b   Smith, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Histology; Inflammation; Labor; Macrophages; Myometrium

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CASPASE 3 ANTIBODY; CD34 ANTIBODY; FIBRIN; MACROPHAGE ANTIBODY; PHOSPHOLIPID; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; CASPASE 3; CD68 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNION FLUID; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMETRIUM; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PLATELET MICROPARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL; STAINING; TERM BIRTH; UTERUS BIOPSY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS DISEASE; Y CHROMOSOME; BIRTH; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CELL MOVEMENT; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGES; MYOMETRIUM; NEUTROPHILS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 38949092289     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719107309646     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Mesiano S., Chan EC, Fitter JT, Kwek K., Yeo G., Smith R. Progesterone withdrawal and estrogen activation in human parturition are coordinated by progesterone receptor A expression in the myometrium. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2002 ; 87: 2924-2930.
2. Condon JC, Jeyasuria P., Faust JM, Wilson JW, Mendelson CR A decline in the levels of progesterone receptor coactivators in the pregnant uterus at term may antagonize progesterone receptor function and contribute to the initiation of parturition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 ; 100: 9518-9523.
3. Allport VC, Pieber D., Slater DM, Newton R., White JO, Bennett PR Human labour is associated with nuclear factorkappaB activity which mediates cyclo-oxygenase-2 expression and is involved with the "functional progesterone withdrawal." Mol Hum Reprod. 2001 ; 7: 581-586.
4. Bisits AM, Smith R., Mesiano S., et al. Inflammatory aetiology of human myometrial activation tested using directed graphs. PLoS Comput Biol. 2005 ; 1: 132-136.
5. Thomson AJ, Telfer JF, Young A., et al. Leukocytes infiltrate the myometrium during human parturition: further evidence that labour is an inflammatory process. Hum Reprod. 1999 ; 14: 229-236.
6. Condon JC, Jeyasuria P., Faust JM, Mendelson CR Surfactant protein secreted by the maturing mouse fetal lung acts as a hormone that signals the initiation of parturition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 ; 101: 4978-4983.
7. Mackler AM, Iezza G., Akin MR, McMillan P., Yellon SM Macrophage trafficking in the uterus and cervix precedes parturition in the mouse. Biol Reprod. 1999 ; 61: 879-883.
8. Mackler AM, Green LM, McMillan PJ, Yellon SM Distribution and activation of uterine mononuclear phagocytes in peripartum endometrium and myometrium of the mouse. Biol Reprod. 2000 ; 62: 1193-1200.
9. Mackler AM, Ducsay TC, Ducsay CA, Yellon SM Effects of endotoxin and macrophage-related cytokines on the contractile activity of the gravid murine uterus. Biol Reprod. 2003 ; 69: 1165-1169.
10. Yellon SM, Mackler AM, Kirby MA The role of leukocyte traffic and activation in parturition. J Soc Gynecol Investig. 2003 ; 10: 323-338.
11. Kim CJ, Kim JS, Kim YM, et al. Fetal macrophages are not present in the myometrium of women with labor at term. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2006 ; 195: 829-833.
12. Leong AS Microwave techniques for diagnostic laboratories. Scanning. 1993 ; 15: 88-98.
13. Gamachi A., Kashima K., Daa T., Nakatani Y., Tsujimoto M., Yokoyama S. Aberrant intranuclear localization of biotin, biotin-binding enzymes, and beta-catenin in pregnancy-related endometrium and morule-associated neoplastic lesions. Mod Pathol. 2003 ; 16: 1124-1131.
14. Leong AS-Y HZ, Clarke M. Microwave enhancement of CISH for HER2 oncogene. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2007 ; 15: 88-93.
15. Papadimitriou JC, Drachenberg CB, Brenner DS, Newkirk C., Trump BF, Silverberg SG " Thanatosomes": a unifying morphogenetic concept for tumor hyaline globules related to apoptosis. Hum Pathol. 2000 ; 31: 1455-1465.
16. Horstman LL, Jy W., Jimenez JJ, Bidot C., Ahn YS New horizons in the analysis of circulating cell-derived microparticles. Keio J Med. 2004 ; 53: 210-230.
17. Cooper K., Haffajee Z., Taylor L. Comparative analysis of biotin intranuclear inclusions of gestational endometrium using the APAAP, ABC and the PAP immunodetection systems. J Clin Pathol. 1997 ; 50: 153-156.