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BULLETIN OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 172, Issue 1, Pages 90-95Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10517-021-05338-6
Keywords
placenta; preeclampsia; fucosylated glycans; lectin histochemistry; morphometry
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [19-015-00102]
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The study found that the expression pattern of fucosylated glycans and the morphometric characteristics of the placental villi vary in patients with different severities of preeclampsia (PE), potentially affecting the function of the placental barrier.
We performed a comparative analysis of the expression of fucosylated glycans and morphometric characteristics of the terminal villi of the placenta, depending on the severity of preeclampsia (PE). Similar patterns of the expression of fucosylated glycans in the syncytiotrophoblast glycocalyx were revealed in the placental tissue of patients with normal pregnancy and with mild and severe PE: predominance of glycans with alpha 1,6-fucose in the core, clustered fucose residues, and LeX glycan over alpha 1,2-fucose-containing glycans. The expression pattern of fucosylated glycans and the composition of the endothelial glycocalyx are normally close to the expression pattern and composition of the syncytiotrophoblast glycocalyx; in case of mild and severe PE, the expression pattern of fucosylated glycans was changed uniformly, and alpha 1,2-fucose-containing glycans significantly prevailed in the endothelial glycocalyx. According to the results of Fisher's LSD test, in patients with severe PE, the total vascular area in the villus prevailed over the indices established during physiological course of pregnancy (p=0.04) and mild PE (p=0.04). Correlation analysis revealed direct and reciprocal relationships between the morphometric characteristics of the terminal villi of the placenta and the expression of fucosylated glycans in the syncytiotrophoblast and endothelium in PE. Our results indicate a changed expression of fucosylated glycans in the glycocalyx of placental barrier structures and the morphometric parameters of villi in PE of different severity, which can affect the function of the placental barrier.
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