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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yang, Qing
• El-Sayed, Yasser
• Rosenberg-Hasson, Yael
• Hirschberg, David L
• Nayak, Nihar R
• Schilling, James
• Madan, Ashima

Titel

Multiple cytokine profile in plasma and amniotic fluid in a mouse model of pre-term labor

Ist Teil von

• American journal of reproductive immunology (1989), 2009-11, Vol.62 (5), p.339-347

Ort / Verlag

Denmark

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The rate of pre-term birth in the United States continues to rise despite several interventions. Induction of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines has been implicated in the activation of the cascade of events resulting in pre-term labor. To date, no comprehensive panel of the cytokine profile in PTL has been published. To address cytokine profiles in pre-term labor, levels of 19 plasma and amniotic fluid cytokines were measured using a multiplex immunoassay in an inflammation-induced murine model of pre-term labor. Pro-inflammatory mediators, RANTES, KC, IL-6, and IL-12p40 were increased by 3 hr and remained high at 15 hr. Concentrations of KC, IL-6, IL-1beta, and MIP-1alpha were increased in the amniotic fluid at 15 hr. Plasma levels of anti-inflammatory mediators IL-10 and IL-13 at 15 hr were unchanged and decreased respectively. These results suggest that stimulation of several pro-inflammatory cytokines occurs very early in the cascade of events and remains increased, whereas anti-inflammatory cytokines are either unchanged or decreased until the onset of delivery in an inflammation-induced mouse model of pre-term labor.