{"title":"MicroRNA-199a-5p and Autophagy related gene 5 in Behçet Disease: Possible Relation and Association with Disease Severity","authors":"Mervat Eissa","doi":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104609","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104609","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16963,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive Immunology","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104609"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144713634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complement and Collectins in pregnancy","authors":"Uday Kishore","doi":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104616","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16963,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive Immunology","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104616"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144714188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alin Mishel Hernández Bustos, Diana Maria Morales Prieto, Udo R. Markert, José Martín Murrieta Coxca
{"title":"Membrane-bound mitochondrial DNA: a potential senescence signal in placenta tissue","authors":"Alin Mishel Hernández Bustos, Diana Maria Morales Prieto, Udo R. Markert, José Martín Murrieta Coxca","doi":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16963,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive Immunology","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104560"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144713627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decidual macrophage efferocytosis of trophoblasts in full term human placenta","authors":"Kylie Belchamber , Jennifer Tamblyn","doi":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104556","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104556","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16963,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive Immunology","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104556"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144713608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Douglas B. Kell , Loren Kell , Louise C. Kenny , Abi Merriel , J. Bernadette Moore , Etheresia Pretorius
{"title":"The roles of placental senescence, autophagy and senotherapeutics in the development and prevention of pre-eclampsia: A focus on ergothioneine","authors":"Douglas B. Kell , Loren Kell , Louise C. Kenny , Abi Merriel , J. Bernadette Moore , Etheresia Pretorius","doi":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104621","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104621","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cellular senescence is a well-established biological phenomenon in eukaryotes. It involves DNA damage, telomere shortening, a senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), and the inability of cells to replicate. It is associated with ageing, and also with oxidative stress. Given the importance of oxidative stress in pre-eclampsia, there is considerable evidence, that we review, that senescence plays an important role in both normal placental development and in the development of both early- and late-term pre-eclampsia. Autophagy is capable of delaying or even reversing the development of senescence, and certain small molecules such as sulforaphane and spermidine can stimulate autophagy, including via the redox-sensitive transcription factor Nrf2. Ergothioneine is a thiohistidine antioxidant that is protective against a variety of cardiovascular and other diseases. Ergothioneine also interacts with Nrf2, and pre-eclampsia occurs far less frequently in individuals with higher plasma ergothioneine levels. Together, these elements provide a self-consistent, molecular and systems biology explanation for at least one mechanism by which ergothioneine may be protective against pre-eclampsia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16963,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive Immunology","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104621"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144721676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Li Qing Wang , Giulia F. Del Gobbo , Elizabeth Wong , Samantha L. Wilson , Mackenzie Campbell , Chaini Konwar , Maria Peñaherrera , Deborah Money , Hélène Côté , Wendy P. Robinson
{"title":"Placental CCR5 polymorphisms in relation to fetal growth","authors":"Li Qing Wang , Giulia F. Del Gobbo , Elizabeth Wong , Samantha L. Wilson , Mackenzie Campbell , Chaini Konwar , Maria Peñaherrera , Deborah Money , Hélène Côté , Wendy P. Robinson","doi":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104622","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104622","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The placenta mediates fetal growth, and its development and function are influenced by immune interactions at the maternal-fetal interface. The cysteine-cysteine chemotactic cytokine receptor type 5 (<em>CCR5</em>) gene codes for a pro-inflammatory protein receptor expressed in the placenta on syncytiotrophoblasts and Hofbauer cells. Associations of the placental-fetal genotype at <em>CCR5</em> and birth outcomes have not been examined. Furthermore, influence of CCR5 polymorphisms on nearby DNA methylation in the placenta and in the context of infection is understudied. We assessed two functional polymorphisms in <em>CCR5</em>, a 32 base pair deletion (Δ32) in the open reading frame and an A/G promoter point mutation (rs1799987) in EPIC (n = 233) a cohort consisting of complicated and uncomplicated pregnancies ascertained in Vancouver BC and found that the variant alleles were associated with birth weight (p = 0.007 and p = 0.01 respectively). We validated the association of rs1799987 with birthweight (p = 0.003) in the published NICHD dataset of normative term births (n = 286). These variant associations were, however, not present in CARMA-Preg (n = 200) a cohort enriched for HIV-exposure. Interestingly, we found rs1799987 was associated with altered DNA methylation (DNAme) at multiple CpGs spanning over 275 kb, overlapping both the <em>CCR2</em> and <em>CCR5</em> genes. DNAme in this region was, however, not associated with birthweight. Further investigations are needed to validate the association of <em>CCR5</em> variants with fetal growth. Such studies must consider the population structure and demographics, as well as the large haplotype blocks spanning this region, which make it difficult to assign a causal relationship to specific variants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16963,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive Immunology","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104622"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144685443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jinxia Huang , Bin Liu , Yanjie Xiang , Yi Zhang , Lele Kuang , Di Xi , Bo Wang , Xiaowei Lu , Joanne Kwak-Kim , Wenjuan Wang
{"title":"Follicular fluid cytokine phenotypes reflect underlying etiologies for infertility","authors":"Jinxia Huang , Bin Liu , Yanjie Xiang , Yi Zhang , Lele Kuang , Di Xi , Bo Wang , Xiaowei Lu , Joanne Kwak-Kim , Wenjuan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jri.2025.104620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To determine if the follicular fluid (FF) cytokine phenotype reflects underlying etiologies for infertility and oocyte/embryo quality. The study subjects comprised infertile women with diminished ovarian reserve (DOR, n = 42), tubal factor infertility (TFI, n = 72), and repeated implantation failures (RIF, n = 15). Controls were women with male factor infertility (MFI, n = 30). Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), IL-4, IL-10, IL-17, and transforming growth factor beta1(TGF-β1) levels in the FF were measured by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The results showed that TNF-α and TGF-β 1 levels in the DOR group were higher than in the MFI group (P = 0.028, P = 0.031, respectively). The IFN-γ/IL-4 and IFN-γ/IL-10 ratios were significantly lower in the TFI group. (P = 0.026, P = 0.016, respectively) than in the MFI group. TNF-α and IL-17 levels and TNF-α/IL-10 ratios in the RIF group were higher in the RIF group than in the MFI (P = 0.006, P = 0.002, P = 0.009, respectively). All six cytokine levels in the high-quality cleavage stage embryo group tend to be higher than those in the low-quality cleavage stage embryo group regardless of their underlying etiologies (P > 0.05). The FF cytokine phenotype may reflect the underlying immunopathology of infertile women undergoing ART cycles. DOR is associated with elevated FF TNF-α and TGF-β1, which may participate in the progression of DOR. FF of TFI has Th2 bias, while Th1 and Th17 bias was present in FF of RIF. Decrease FF cytokine levels may predict reduced oocyte/embryo quality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16963,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive Immunology","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104620"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144653553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}