Transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β1) expression in patients with adenomyosis

Autor: Andreia Jacobo, Renata Fogaça Borges, Carlos Augusto Bastos de Souza, Vanessa Krebs Genro, João Sabino Cunha-Filho
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, Vol 46 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0100-7203
DOI: 10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo31
Popis: Abstract Objective: To compare Transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β1) expression in patients with and without adenomyosis. Methods: A prospective design was performed including 49 patients submitted to hysterectomy. Immunohistochemistry was performed on anatomopathological samples staged in paraffin blocks from patients with and without adenomyosis. The sample contained 28 adenomyosis cases and 21 controls. Student's t-test and multivariate logistic regression tests were used for statistical analysis. Associations were considered significant at p < 0.05. Results: We found no significant association between adenomyosis and: smoking (p = 0.75), miscarriage (p = 0.29), number of previous pregnancies (p = 0.85), curettage (p = 0.81), pelvic pain (p = 0.72) and myoma (p = 0.15). However, we did find a relationship between adenomyosis and abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) (p = 0.02) and previous cesarean section (p = 0.02). The mean TGF-β1 intensity (mean ± SD) in the ectopic endometrium of women with adenomyosis showed no significant association (184.17 ± 9.4 vs.184.66 ± 16.08, p = 0.86) from the topic endometrium of women without adenomyosis. Conclusion: TGF-β1 expression was not increased in the ectopic endometrium of women with adenomyosis.
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