Project description:The aim of this study was to investigate the role of SREBP1a in the regulation of inflammation in endometrial tissue after LPS injection. We report that systemic deletion of Srebf1, which encodes SREBP1, resulted in persistent endometrial inflammation and CD138-positive plasma cell infiltration. In addition, Srebf1 knockout mice exhibited pregnancy loss and placental insufficiency in the endometritis model.
Project description:Endometrial microbiota in women with recurrent miscarriage, recurrent implantation failure and a control group who had had live birth
Project description:Most dairy cows suffer uterine microbial contamination postpartum. Persistent endometritis often develops, associated with reduced fertility. We used a model of differential feeding and milking regimes to produce cows in differing negative energy balance (NEB) status in early lactation. We used Affymetrix GeneChipM-CM-^R Bovine Genome Array to investigate the global gene expression underlying negative energy balance and to identify the significantly differentially expressed genes during this process. We investigate the differences of gene expression profiles in uterine endometrial tissues between the cows with mild and severe negative energy balance.
Project description:In postpartum dairy cows, subclinical endometritis (SCE) is characterized by persistent endometrial inflammation, which exerts profound detrimental effects on subsequent reproductive performance. So far, transcriptomic studies related to this condition were either based on biopsy-derived whole endometrium tissue or endometrial swab/cytobrush samples, thus neglecting cell type-specific variations in gene expression. This study tested the hypothesis that different endometrial health statuses are associated with distinct transcription profiles of endometrial stromal, glandular and luminal epithelial cells. In conclusion, this study evidences that endometrial inflammation recovery or persistence is associated with gene expression patterns involved in immune function, tissue remodelling, and uterine receptivity in a cell type-specific manner. Identifying these signatures may prove instrumental to developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic targets, either to prevent persistence or speed recovery from endometrial inflammation, thus restoring the fertility of postpartum dairy cows.
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
Project description:To elucidate the mechanism of galactose preventing endometritis, we treated mice with or without galactose and subsequently employed flow sorting to isolate endometrial epithelial cells.
2025-06-19 | GSE287462 | GEO
Project description:Interaction between chronic endometritis caused endometrial microbiota disorder and endometrial immune environment change in recurrent implantation failure
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:The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) is a central mediator of innate immune sensing and represents a critical regulator of chronic inflammation. Upon persistent infection, excessive neutrophil activation leads to the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) that damage the tissues. However, the mechanism by which STING signaling regulates NETs formation under chronic inflammatory conditions remains poorly understood. In this study, using LPS-induced murine endometritis models in wild-type and STING-deficient mice, we demonstrated that STING deficiency significantly suppressed myeloperoxidase activity, and diminished NETs formation. We identified neutrophil surface molecular CD11b as a key downstream target of STING, whose expression was transcriptionally regulated via IRF7. Furthermore, the STING-IRF7 axis was found to drive lipocalin-2 (LCN2) expression, which acted through its receptor MC4R to upregulate intracellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), thereby facilitating neutrophil recruitment and NETosis during LPS stimulation. The role of this pathway was validated both in vitro using isolated neutrophils and in vivo using Lcn2-/- mice. Moreover, STING deficiency reprogramed the endometrial immune microenvironment by reducing inflammatory infiltration and restoring receptivity transcription factor homeobox A10 (HOXA10). Our findings revealed a novel mechanism in which the STING-IRF7 pathway exacerbated endometrial inflammation and tissue damage by coordinately upregulating CD11b and activating the LCN2-ICAM-1 axis. Consequently, targeting the STING signaling pathway may offer a promising therapeutic strategy for chronic endometritis.
2025-12-27 | GSE314991 | GEO
Project description:The vaginal swab samples from women with live birth and non-live birth