机构:[a]Department of Nephrology, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China内科系统肾科首都医科大学宣武医院[b]Department of Nephrology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
Purpose: We studied the expression of urotensin II (UII) and its relationships with markers of pyroptosis in preeclampsia. Methods: 48 pregnant subjects were recruited consisting of 28 severe preeclampsia pregnancies (SPE) and 20 healthy pregnancies. We detected expressions of UII and markers of pyroptosis such as NLR-family pyrin domain (PYD)-containing 3 (NLRP-3), caspase-1/4/5, interleukin-1β (IL-1β), and gasdermin D (GSDMD) in placentas of patients with SPE and healthy pregnancies. Results: SPE group have higher expression of UII and NLRP-3, caspase-1, interleukin-1β (IL-1β), and GSDMD than that normal controls by IHC, real-time PCR, and western blot. IHC analysis manifests that the expressions of UII and pyroptosis-related molecules are mainly located in the placental cytotrophoblasts. Expressions of UII mRNA and protein are significantly positively correlated with pyroptosis marker such as NLRP3, caspase-1, GSDMD mRNA and protein by Pearson correlation analysis. Moreover, UII, NLRP-3, caspase-1, interleukin-1β (IL-1β), and GSDMD are positively related with systolic blood pressure, meanwhile caspase-1 and GSDMD are positively correlated with urine protein in SPE patients. We firstly verify that UII has a positive correlation with pyroptosis markers in placentas of preeclampsia patients; besides, pyroptosis-related proteins are positively correlated with systolic blood pressure and urine protein in patients with severe preeclampsia.
基金:
This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation (Grant
No. 81873619, Grant No.81570663), Xuanwu Hospital Huizhi talent leader
training program to Ai-Hua Zhang, National Science and technology
support program (Grant No. 2015BAI12B06).
第一作者机构:[a]Department of Nephrology, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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通讯机构:[*1]Department of Nephrology, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR. China.
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Ya-Jing Pan,Meng-Ze Zhang,Lin-Hui He,et al.Expression of urotensin II is positively correlated with pyroptosis-related molecules in patients with severe preeclampsia.[J].CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPERTENSION.2021,43(3):295-304.doi:10.1080/10641963.2020.1867159.
APA:
Ya-Jing Pan,Meng-Ze Zhang,Lin-Hui He,Jin Feng&Ai-Hua Zhang.(2021).Expression of urotensin II is positively correlated with pyroptosis-related molecules in patients with severe preeclampsia..CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPERTENSION,43,(3)
MLA:
Ya-Jing Pan,et al."Expression of urotensin II is positively correlated with pyroptosis-related molecules in patients with severe preeclampsia.".CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPERTENSION 43..3(2021):295-304