Project description:This study identifies a transciptomic myometrial profile associated with dystocia in spontanous nulliparous term labour We used microarrays to compare myometrial biopsies obtained at cesarean section from women in spontaneous term labour Women in spontaneous labour undergoing cesarean section for dystocia (slow progressing labour) compared to women who had progressed in the second stage
Project description:Preterm birth, defined as delivery before the 37th week of gestation, is the most common cause of neonatal mortality and the second leading cause of death in children under five years of age. Preterm birth is associated with immediate and long term morbidity as well as growth and developmental delay. Currently there is no treatment that can prevent or block preterm labor. In order to identify the molecular regulators of preterm spontaneous labor in the human myometrium, we studied the gene expression profiles of samples with Preterm Spontaneous Labour (PSL) and compared them with the gene expression profiles of samples with Preterm No Labor (PNL).
Project description:Differentially expressed mRNA transcripts in the placenta delivered by term spontaneous labour compared to those delivered by elective term cesarean section. We hypothesized that the labour process involves changes in mRNA expression in the placenta. To test this hypothesis, we interrogated the mRNA levels of >50,000 genes and transcript variants using gene expression microarray (Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array, Affymetrix) on 5 placentas collected from term spontaneous delivery and another 5 placentas collected from elective term cesarean delivery. To minimize the effect of gestational age on gene expression, these two groups of placentas were matched for their gestational ages at delivery. We have identified 134 and 128 genes that were up- or down-regulated, respectively, for more than 3-fold in the term (spontaneous) labour placentas compared to the term (elective) cesarean placentas (Mann-Whitney Rank Sum Test, p-value <= 0.05 after Benjamini and Hochberg adjustment for multiple testing). Experiment Overall Design: Placentas collected from (i) term spontaeous labour and (ii) elective term cesarean section were subjected to RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. To identify gene expression patterns that are commonly involved in term spontaneous labour, we analyzed 5 placentas from each of these 2 groups and tested for any differentially expressed genes by non-parametric statistical methods.
Project description:Differentially expressed mRNA transcripts in the placenta delivered by term spontaneous labour compared to those delivered by elective term cesarean section. We hypothesized that the labour process involves changes in mRNA expression in the placenta. To test this hypothesis, we interrogated the mRNA levels of >50,000 genes and transcript variants using gene expression microarray (Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array, Affymetrix) on 5 placentas collected from term spontaneous delivery and another 5 placentas collected from elective term cesarean delivery. To minimize the effect of gestational age on gene expression, these two groups of placentas were matched for their gestational ages at delivery. We have identified 134 and 128 genes that were up- or down-regulated, respectively, for more than 3-fold in the term (spontaneous) labour placentas compared to the term (elective) cesarean placentas (Mann-Whitney Rank Sum Test, p-value <= 0.05 after Benjamini and Hochberg adjustment for multiple testing).
Project description:This study identifies a transciptomic myometrial profile associated with dystocia in spontanous nulliparous term labour We used microarrays to compare myometrial biopsies obtained at cesarean section from women in spontaneous term labour
Project description:We hypothesized that preterm spontaneous labor involves aberrant changes in mRNA expression in the placenta. To test this hypothesis, we interrogated the mRNA levels of >50,000 genes and transcript variants using gene expression microarray (Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array, Affymetrix) on 5 placentas collected from preterm spontaneous delivery (<34 weeks of gestation) and another 5 placentas collected from term spontaneous delivery (38-39 weeks). We have identified 229 and 162 genes that were up- or down-regulated, respectively, for more than 3-fold in the preterm placentas compared to the term placentas (Mann-Whitney Rank Sum Test, with multiple testing correction by the Benjamini-Hochberg method, adjusted p-value <= 0.05). Placentas collected from (i) preterm spontaneous delivery (<34 weeks of gestation) and (ii) term spontaneous delivery (38-39 weeks of gestation) were subjected to RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. To identify gene expression patterns that are commonly involved in preterm spontaneous labour, we analyzed 5 placentas from each of these 2 groups and tested for any differentially expressed genes by Mann-Whitney Rank Sum Test.
Project description:We performed a microarray experiment to test the hypothesis that pre-labour premature rupture of fetal membranes (PPROM) has a different underlying pathology from spontaneous premature labour with intact membranes (PTL). We thought that the different genetic signature would be detected in the cervical tissue. Our study included cervical biopsies obtained as previously described from women undergoing caesarean section (CS) following PPROM, PTL, term labour (TL) or delivering at term prior to the presentation of labour (Term no labour âTNL). After quality control of the expression arrays, any association between sample covariates was evaluated and no evidence was found of unexpected associations. The differences in expression levels for each statistical comparison were then computed. We identified genes that were differentially expressed with an adjusted pvalue < 0.01 from hypothesis testing together with a fold change >= 2. The strongest effect, i.e. the contrast with the highest number of DEGs, was observed for âTerm labour vs Term not labourâ (1,285 genes) while the contrast with the fewest DEGs was âTerm labour vs Preterm premature rupture of membranesâ (16 genes). A table showing the number of differentially expressed genes, for each comparison, can be found in the Results section of this report. We then examined the number of genes overlapping between the statistical comparisons performed (see section 2.5 of the Results) and found that the contrast âTerm labour vs Term not labourâ had a large number of DEGs in common with the five other contrasts.