Construction and Optimization of an Endometrial Injury Model in Mice by Transcervical Ethanol Perfusion
| Autor: | Yuliang Sun, Liang Qiao, Yilin Lu, Dongli Jiang, Shenghui Zhang, Yanli Liu, Xinyi Li, Pan Ying, Chen Tongtong, Ruihong Liu, Juntang Lin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Necrosis Tissue Adhesions Endometrium Receptors G-Protein-Coupled Pregnancy Fibrosis medicine Animals Cervix Uterine Diseases Mice Inbred BALB C Fetus Ethanol business.industry Calcium-Binding Proteins Uterus Obstetrics and Gynecology Uterine horns medicine.disease Perfusion Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 Disease Models Animal Fertility medicine.anatomical_structure Immunohistochemistry Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Reproductive Sciences. 28:693-702 |
| ISSN: | 1933-7205 1933-7191 |
| Popis: | This study aimed to establish a stable animal model of intrauterine adhesion (IUA) using a minimally invasive method that recapitulates the clinicopathologic characteristics of IUA. Mice were randomly divided into groups based on the ethanol treatment time (the EtOH-10 s, EtOH-20 s, EtOH-40 s, EtOH-1 min, and sham operation groups), and after the cervix was relaxed with phloroglucinol, the uterine horn was perfused with 95% ethanol through the cervix to induce endometrial injury. Eight days after the procedure, routine biochemical assays were performed to assess liver and kidney function; HE and Masson staining were used to assess uterine morphology and fibrosis; and immunohistochemistry was performed to evaluate the expression of CD31 and F4/80 in the endometrium. Furthermore, the fertility of mice in the EtOH-40 s group and the sham operation group was compared. As expected, the ethanol treatment time was positively correlated with the degree of uterine damage and kidney dysfunction in mice. In particular, the endometria of mice in the EtOH-40 s group were significantly thinner than those of mice in the sham operation group and exhibited severe necrosis, glandular loss, incomplete epithelial and glandular epithelial cell structure, severe tissue fibrosis, an activated inflammatory response, and a significant decrease in the number of fetuses, consistent with the clinical characteristics of severe IUA. In conclusion, this study resulted in successful establishment, by a minimally invasive transcervical ethanol perfusion technique, of a mouse model of endometrial injury, which could support an in-depth study of IUA pathogenesis and further promote the development of IUA therapies. |
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