Macaca nemestrina
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Project description:Preterm birth is a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Microbial infection and inflammation of the amniotic cavity are associated with the majority of early preterm births and thought to arise from ascension of bacteria from the lower genital tract. Group B Streptococci (GBS) are beta-hemolytic, gram-positive bacteria, which commonly colonize the vagina and have been recovered from the amniotic fluid in cases of preterm birth. Host immune defenses that are critical for prevention of microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity (MIAC) and preterm labor are not completely understood. We recently showed that increased expression of the hemolytic pigment promotes GBS penetration of human placenta ex vivo and hyperhemolytic/hyperpigmented GBS strains with mutations in the hemolysin repressor (CovR/CovS) can be isolated from women in preterm labor. To understand placental/ choriodecidual immune responses that are necessary to prevent MIAC and preterm labor, we utilized a unique chronically catheterized nonhuman primate model that closely emulates human pregnancy. We observed that preterm labor, MIAC, and fetal injury occurred significantly more frequently in pregnant nonhuman primates infected with hyperpigmented GBS (ΔcovR) despite the strong induction of proinflammatory responses in the chorioamnion. Placental histopathology revealed a systematic progression in development of chorioamnionitis in GBSΔcovR animals beginning with chorionic vasculitis and subsequently progressing to neutrophilic infiltration in the chorioamnion.
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Project description:Uterine stretch is thought to induce preterm labor in women with twin and higher order pregnancies, but the pathophysiology remains unclear. We investigated the pathogenesis of stretch-induced preterm birth for the first time in a pregnant nonhuman primate model. Eleven chronically catheterized pregnant monkeys (Macaca nemestrina) at 118-125 days gestation (term=172 days) received either: 1) inflation of intra-amniotic balloons (N=6) or 2) saline inoculation (N=5). Cesarean section and fetal necropsy was performed due to preterm labor or to collect tissues, except in one case where the animal delivered spontaneously, reducing samples for microarray analysis to ten (five stretch and five control animals). Amniotic fluid and maternal plasma were analyzed for multiple cytokines and prostaglandins using Luminex, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Analysis of Covariance. Ribonucleic acid was extracted from the myometrium in the lower uterus at Cesarean section and analyzed by microarray and quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction.
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2017-05-04 | E-GEOD-71123 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Distinct processes govern the transition from myometrial quiescence to activation during both term and preterm labor. We sought the specific gene sets responsible for initiating term and preterm labor, along with a core set of effector genes necessary for labor independent of gestational age and the underlying trigger. The Effector Gene Set consisted of 49 genes present in both preterm and term labor but absent from non-labor samples. 122 genes were specific to preterm labor (Preterm Initiator Set) and 229 to term labor (Term Initiator Set). The Term Initiator and the Effector Sets reflected predominantly inflammatory processes. Surprisingly, the Preterm Initiator Gene Set reflected molecular and biological events almost exclusive of inflammation. Preterm and term labor differ dramatically in their unique, initiator gene profiles, suggesting alternative pathways underlie these events. Inflammatory processes are ubiquitous to the Term Initiator and the Effector Gene Sets, supporting the idea term parturition is an inflammatory process. The absence of inflammatory processes in the Preterm Initiator Set suggests inflammation is secondary to processes triggering spontaneous preterm birth, and could explain the lack of therapeutic efficacy associated with anti inflammatory/antibiotic regimens. Keywords: myometrial gene expression, preterm versus term labor
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2012-01-26 | E-GEOD-32544 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Early events leading to intrauterine infection remain poorly defined, but may hold the key to a therapeutic intervention for preterm delivery. To determine early molecular pathways associated with membrane weakening that may progress to preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), we examined the effects of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) on fetal membranes after a choriodecidual infection. Ten chronically catheterized pregnant monkeys (Macaca nemestrina) at 118-125 days gestation (term=172 days) received choriodecidual inoculation of either: 1) Group B Streptococcus (n=5) or 2) saline (n=5). Cesarean section and fetal necropsy was performed in the first week after GBS or saline inoculation regardless of labor. Macaca nemestrina chorioamnion samples were obtained at the site of inocculation immediately after cesarean delivery 4 days after GBS inoculation and 7 days after saline inoculation. RNA was extracted and profiled by microarray. Results were analyzed using single gene, Gene Set, and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. Validation was by RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry.
2014-11-18 | E-GEOD-46290 | biostudies-arrayexpress