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FERTILITY AND STERILITY
卷 101, 期 6, 页码 1724-1731出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.02.027
关键词
Implantation; endometrium; leukemia inhibitory factor; LIF; endometriosis
资金
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/National Institutes of Health as part of the Specialized Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction and Infertility Research [U54-HD35041-12]
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/National Institutes of Health [R01 HD067721]
Objective: To evaluate endometrial leukemia inhibitor factor (LIF) expression as a marker of endometrial receptivity in women with unexplained infertility (UI). Design: Prospective case-control study. Setting: University-associated infertility clinics. Patient(s): Women with UI for more than 1 year and healthy control women. Intervention(s): Endometrial biopsy. Main Outcome Measure(s): Time to pregnancy was compared between patients with UI who were evaluated for endometrial LIF protein as well as alpha nu beta 3 integrin expression. Endometrium was evaluated using immunohistochemistry (IHC) and messenger RNA by real time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR) in samples from women with UI as well as healthy control women. Result(s): Leukemia inhibitor factor was expressed in epithelial cells in a cyclic fashion in controls, and overall expression in the secretory phase was similar between controls and women with UI, whereas alpha nu beta 3 integrin expression was reduced. However, using quantitative real-time PCR, LIF messenger RNA abundance was 4.4-fold lower in women with low levels of alpha nu beta 3 integrin expression compared with samples with normal integrins. By immunohistochemistry, alpha nu beta 3 integrin expression was always lacking when the histology was out of phase, whereas LIF expression was only negative in a subset of those samples. Reduced endometrial LIF expression was strongly associated with poor reproductive outcomes. Conclusion(s): Endometrial LIF expression peaks in the midsecretory phase and is reduced in some women with UI. The use of LIF in combination with alpha nu beta 3 integrin as biomarkers appears to be superior to integrin testing alone when evaluating endometrial receptivity, primarily because of its earlier pattern of expression during the secretory phase. (C) 2014 by American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
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