Project description:Our study is designed to demonstrate altered profiles of circRNAs in the luteal-phase endometrium from patients with RIF. Functional studies will be further confirmed. This study will provide new viewpoint for understanding the roles of non-coding RNA for endometrial stromal cells and epithelial cells function, as well as potential etiologic mechanism for RIF.
Project description:we utilized Exiqon miRCURY™ LNA Array (v18.0, Exiqon, Vedbaek, Denmark) to establish miRNA expression profiles in the endometrial tissues at the time of embryo implantation(day 7 after ovulation) from 8 RIF patients and 10 matched controls. A total of 157 miRNAs exhibited distinct expression patterns in RIF patients as opposed to controls (fold change >2.0 and P-value <0.05).
Project description:Patient-control group project investigating recurrent failure of embryo-implantation by expression analysis of endometrium biopsies
Project description:BackgroundRecurrent implantation failure (RIF) is an obstacle in the process of assisted reproductive technology (ART). At present, there is limited research on its pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment methods.Methods and resultsIn this study, a series of analytical tools were used to analyze differences in miRNAs, mRNAs, and lncRNAs in the endometrium of patients in a RIF group and a control group. Then the competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network was built to describe the relationship between gene regulation in the endometrium of the RIF group. Based on the results of the logistic regression of co-expression miRNAs between serum and endometrial samples, we built a predictive model based on circulating miRNAs.ConclusionThe stability and non-invasiveness of the circular miRNA prediction model provided a new method for diagnosis in RIF patients.
Project description:Currently, infertility affects 8-12% of reproductive age couples worldwide, a problem that also affects women suffering from recurrent implantation failure (RIF). RIF is a complex condition resulting from many physiological and molecular mechanisms involving dynamic endometrium-blastocyst interaction. The most important are the endometrial receptivity process, decidualization, trophoblast invasion, and blastocyst nesting. Although the exact multifactorial pathogenesis of RIF remains unclear, many studies have suggested the association between hormone level imbalance, disturbances of angiogenic and immunomodulatory factors, certain genetic polymorphisms, and occurrence of RIF. These studies were performed in quite small groups. Additionally, the results are inconsistent between ethnicities. The present review briefly summarizes the importance of factors involved in RIF development that could also serve as diagnostic determinants. Moreover, our review could constitute part of a new platform for discovery of novel diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for RIF.
Project description:Recurrent implantation failure (RIF) is an uncommon, imprecisely defined clinical disorder characterized by failure to achieve pregnancy after repeated embryo transfers. The diverse etiologies and incomplete understanding of RIF provide significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to patients and providers. Careful clinical evaluation prior to assisted reproduction can uncover many treatable causes, including thyroid dysfunction, submucosal myomas, and tobacco use. The more-subtle causes often require a more-targeted assessment. Undetected, small polyps or small areas of intrauterine synechiae are relatively common and easily treated contributors to RIF. Molecular and cellular abnormalities pose a greater therapeutic challenge. Putative causes of RIF, including progesterone resistance, shifted window of receptivity, decreased integrin expression, and immunologic disturbances, should be considered in the evaluation of a patient with otherwise unexplained RIF. It may also be true that a more complex and standardized definition of RIF would be helpful in these cases. In this paper, we review the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to RIF, with emphasis on disorders of endometrial receptivity.
Project description:HOXA10 has emerged as an important molecular marker of endometrial receptivity. Recurrent implantation failure (RIF) after in vitro fertilization-embryo transplantation (IVF-ET) treatment is associated with impaired endometrial receptivity, but the exact underlying mechanism of this phenomenon remains elusive. Here we found that HOXA10 was modified by small ubiquitin like-modifier 1 (SUMO1) at the evolutionarily conserved lysine 164 residue. Sumoylation inhibited HOXA10 protein stability and transcriptional activity without affecting its subcellular localization. SUMO1-modified HOXA10 expression was decreased in estradiol- and progesterone-treated Ishikawa cells. Sumoylation inhibited the accelerant role of HOXA10 in BeWo spheroid and mouse embryo attachment to Ishikawa cells. Importantly, aberrantly high SUMO1-HOXA10 expression was detected in mid-secretory endometria of women with RIF compared with that of the control fertile women. Together, our results suggest that HOXA10 sumoylation impairs the process of embryo implantation in vitro and takes part in the development of RIF.
Project description:A microarray study about miRNA expression profiles in recurrent implantation failure patients as compare with who had got pregnancy after embryo implantation no more than three times To detect the miRNAs that may regulate endometrial receptivity by microarray study
Project description:To compare the lncRNA expression profile of RIF (recurrent implantation failure) and normal control endometrium,endometrium samples were collected at window of implantation (LH+6~10 days) The dysregulated lncRNAs between RIF and control group were deem to be involve in the regulation of endometrium receptivity