Journal
ANIMAL REPRODUCTION SCIENCE
Volume 225, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2020.106680
Keywords
Uterine contractility; Inflammation; Vasoactive intestine peptide; VPAC receptors; Pig
Funding
- State Committee for Scientific Research [2014/15/B/N25/03572]
- Polish Academy of Sciences
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The study examined the abundances of VIP receptors (VPAC1, VPAC2) in the pig myometrium and their role in regulating inflamed uterine contractility. VIP was found to decrease myometrial contractility in the inflamed pig uterus through VPAC1 and VPAC2 receptors.
Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) receptor (VPAC1, VPAC2) abundances in the myometrium and functions in the regulation of inflamed uterine contractility in pigs were studied. In the CON group with gilts, only lapamtomy was performed. The gilts of SAL- and E. coli-treated groups were administered saline or E. coli into the uterine horns, respectively. The E. coli-induced endometritis resulted in a lesser myometrial relative abundance of VPAC1 and VPAC2 receptor mRNA transcripts and larger abundance of protein for these receptors. In the myometrium, treatment with VIP resulted in a lesser contractility amplitude than in the tissues of the CON- and SAL- and E. coli-treated groups and in frequency in the CON- and E.coli-treated group compared to the period before VIP treatment. Compared to when there was VIP treatment alone, treatment with VPAC1 and VPAC2 receptor antagonists resulted in a lesser inhibitory effect of VIP on contractility amplitude in the myometrium of the CON and SAL-treated groups and there was complete abolishment of the inhibitory VIP effect on frequency of myometrial contractility of the CON group. In the myometrium of E. coli-treated group, treatment with VPAC1 and VPAC2 receptor antagonists resulted in a reversal of the inhibitory effect of VIP on contractility amplitude, while treatment with VPAC2 receptor antagonist resulted in elimination of contractility and a lesser endometrium/myometrium inhibitory effect of VIP on frequency of these contractions. Results indicate VIP functions to decrease myometrial contractility of the inflamed pig uterus by having functions at VPAC1 and VPAC2 receptors.
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