Project description:Clinical or subclinical endometritis could affect the cow fertility by disturbing the molecular milieu of the uterine environment. We used a global gene expression approach to understand the effect of clinical and subclinical endometritis on endometrial transcriptome profiles of cows
2016-11-13 | GSE74987 | GEO
Project description:The comparison of uterine and vaginal microbiota between endometritis and healthy donkeys
Project description:Endometriosis is a chronic, estrogen-dependent gynecological condition that affects approximately 10% of women of reproductive age. The most widely accepted theory of the etiology of endometriosis includes the process of retrograde menstruation, where menstrual effluent travels up the Fallopian tubes, accesses the peritoneal cavity, and in some people is able to establish endometriotic lesions. Recent reports suggest the uterus is not devoid of bacteria, as was once believed. Thus, the refluxed menstrual effluent may also carry bacteria along with it, and this bacteria has been suggested to contribute to inflammation, and establishment and growth of endometriotic lesions. Here, we sought to compare and contrast the uterine bacteria (endometrial microbiota) in women with surgically confirmed presence or absence of endometriosis using next-generation 16S rRNA gene sequencing. We obtained an average of more than 9000 sequence reads per endometrial biopsy, and found that the endometrial microbiota of women with endometriosis was more diverse (greater Shannon Diversity Index and greater proportion of ‘Other’ taxa) than that of symptomatic controls (women with pelvic pain, but with surgically confirmed absence of endometriosis; diagnosed with other benign gynecological conditions at surgery). The difference in endometrial microbiotas was supported in unsupervised cluster analyses where some clustering of endometrial microbiota by disease status (endometriosis vs. controls) was observed. The bacterial taxa enriched in the endometrial microbiota of women with endometriosis belonged to the Actinobacteria phylum, Oxalobacteraceae and Streptococcaceae families, and Tepidimonas genus, while those enriched in the symptomatic controls (without endometriosis) belonged to the Burkholderiaceae family, and Ralstonia genus. Taken together, our findings suggest the endometrial microbiota is perturbed in people with endometriosis.
Project description:Combining the cytological as well as gene expression changes in the endometrium is required to understand the effects of subclinical endometritis on endometrium as well as embryo. Hence, the present study was aimed to investigate the gene expression profiles of subclinical endometrium as well the effect of the inflamed environment on the gene expression profile of the developing preimplantative embryo. Endometrial samples were collected from each 49 cow using the cytobrush technique, 2 h before insemination (Day 0 of the estrous cycle after superovulation) and immediately before flushing (Day 7 of the estrous cycle after superovulation). The endometrial samples were categorized based on the PMN value as healthy endometrium (HE, PMN = 0) and subclinical endometritis (SE, endometrial PMN > 0). Flushed embryos were snap frozen for later molecular genetic analysis. Finally, endometrial samples were pooled according to the endometrial health status of the donor cows (HE vs. SE) at the time of insemination and at the time of flushing. The corresponding samples were subjected global gene expression profile. Moreover embryos flushed from HE and SE cows were pooled together according to the health status of their donors at time of flushing. Those embryos were also used for global embryonic gene expression analysis in relation to the health status of the donor cows.
Project description:Transcriptomic data from 100 to 105 tissues from two female herbivores from seven species (cattle, sheep, goats, sika deer, horses, donkeys, and rabbits) and two breeds of sheep. Raw sequence reads