39 cases of normal pregnancy,26 cases of pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome (PIHs) and 23 cases of nonpregnant woman were observed on the changes in B lymphocyte and T lymphocyte subpopulations.B lymphocyte were detected by direct immunofluorescent technique and T lymphocyte subpopulations were identified by rosette forming cell(RFC)treated with adnosine. Compared with the nonpregnant women,the results showed that the significant cha-nges of T lymphocyte subpopulations during pregnancy were observed including the in-crease of adenosine sensitive(AS)cells,the decrease of adenosine resistent(AR)cells,and the icrease of AS/AR ratio. Furthermore in the cases of PIHs,compared with the late pregnant women,AScells,AR cells and AS+AR cells were significantly reduced(all P value

Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA), which affects 1% to 5% of women of reproductive age, is difficult to treat in the clinical setting. In the investigations of iramunopathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of RSA since the late 1980s, it was found that RSA was associated with abnormal maternal local or systemic immune response, the pathogenesis of autoimmune RSA was mainly associated with antiphosphlipid antibody (APA), while that of alloimmune RSA was due to the disturbance of maternofetal immunological tolerance. Systemic etiological screening process and diagnosis systems of RSA with immune type were developed, and anticardiolipin (ACL) + β_2-GP1 combining multiple assay for effective diagnosis of RSA with immune type was initially established. According to dynamic monitoring clinical parameters before and during gestation, low-dose, short-course and individual immunosuppressive therapy and lymphocyte immunotherapy for RSA. With immune type were initiated. The outcomes of the offsprings of patients with RSA were followed up, and the safety and validity of the therapies were confirmed. The research achievement leads to great progress in the diagnosis and treatment of RSA in China.

Objective To investigate the relationship between CD + 4CD + 25 regulatory T cells (CD + 4 CD + 25 Tr)and unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion (URSA) Methods The expression rate of CD + 4CD + 25 Tr in peripheral blood was determined by double label flow cytometric analysis The samples were taken from 20 normal non pregnancy women, 17 URSA women and 20 normal pregnancy women Results The expression frequency of CD + 4CD + 25 Tr cells was decreased significantly( P 0 05) Conclusion The results suggest that downregulation of CD + 4CD + 25 Tr may be associated with URSA

Objective:To investigate the changes of interleukin(IL)-4 and IL-12 following active immunotherapy of women with unexplained habitual abortion(UHA) .Metbods:The expression of IL-4 and IL-12 mRNA was measured by semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells(PMBC) . The samples were taken from 30 non-pregnant(NNP) women and 30 UHA women before and three weeks after active immunotherapy.Results: (1)IL-4 mRNA expression was lower significantly ( P

Objective:To investigate if DQB1 promotor allele polymorphism is associated with the susceptibility to unexplained habitual abortion (UHA).Methods:Polymerase chain reaction-sequence specific oligonucleotide (PCR-SSO) genotyping method was performed to detect HLA-DQB1 promotor (QBP) alleles in 32 cases of unexplained habitual abortion and 53 women with normal pregnancy history.Results:The frequency of QBP alleles was not different between two groups. The frequency of QBP6 2-DQB1*0604/0605 haplotype was 12 5% in patients group and 2 83% in control group, which got statistical significance. Meanwhile, six new haplotypes were first observed in Chinese population.Conclusion:No direct association was found between QBP polymorphism and UHA, but QBP-DQB1 haplotype might play a role in the susceptibility to UHA.

Objective To investigate the changes of serum T helper cell (TH)1/TH2 type cytokines after the active immunotherapy in unexplained habitual abortion (UHA) women. Methods Concentrations of interleukin (IL) 2, IL 12, interferon (IFN) ?, IL 4, IL 10 and transforming growth factor (TGF) ?1 were measured by enzyme linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) method in sera from thirty three cases of unexplained habitual abortion (UHA) women before and after active immunotherapy. Thirty normal non pregnancy (NNP) women and thirty normal pregnancy (NP) women were taken as control. Results (1) Serum concentrations of IL 2 and IL 12 were higher significantly (P

0 05) Conclusion The results suggested that pregnancy immunological tolerance can be induced efficiently and the ELR can be decreased significantly by oral administration of proper dosage antigens of OVA and TMA2

Objective To studythe effect of CD+4CD+25 regulatory T(Tr)cells on dendric cells(DC)in peripheral blood and deciduas from unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion(URSA)patients.Methods Four URSA patients(abortion group)and 4 normal early pregnant women(control group)were enrolled in this study.Tr cells and DC in the peripheral blood and deciduas were isolated using Ficoll density gradient centrifugation and magnetic cell sorting(MACS).DC were cultured alone(DC alone)or in combination with Tr cells(DC+Tr)for 6 days,during which the release of interferon(IFN)-γandinterleukin(IL)-10 in the medium was subsequently measured by enzyme linked immunoadsorbent assay (ELISA).Results(1) Peripheral blood:there was no significant difference in IFN-γlevel between DCalone(23.2±0.7)ng/L and DC+Tr(22.5±3.0)ng/L in abortion group(P>0.05).The similar level of IL-10 was observed between DC alone(37±7)ng/L and DC+Tr(35±4)ng/L in abortion group(P>0.05).IL-10 level,but not IFN-γ,was significantly hisber in DC alone(54±20)ns/L than that in DC+ Tr(36±9)ng/L in control group(P<0.01).(2)Deciduas:there was no significant difference in IFN-γlevel between DC alone(23.4±2.6)ng/L and DC+Tr(24.4±2.5)ng/L in abortion group(P>0.05).Moreover,Similar IL-10 level was found between DC alone(28±7)ng/L and DC+Tr(25±5)ng/L in abortion group(P>0.05).IFN-γlevel in CD alone(30.7±4.6)ng/L was significantly higher than that in DC+Tr(22.6±3.8)ng/L in control group(P<0.01);whereas IL-10 level was much lower in DC alone (27±6)ng/L than that in DC+Tr(31±9)ng/L in control group(P<0.05).Conclusion The decreasing of immunosuppressive funetion of Tr eell of URSA patients affect its regulation on DC.resulting in imbalance of Th1/Th2 and abnormality of maternal-fetal jmmuno-tolerence in URSA.

Objective To investigate the role of KiSS-1 and matrix metalloproteinase(MMP)9 in trophoblasts in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia and their relation to perinatal outcome of neonates. Methods RT-PCR and western blot analyses were used to detect the MMP-9 and KiSS-1 expression levels in trophoblast of 40 patients with preeclampsia (15 cases of mild and 25 cases of severe preeclampsia)(preeclampsia group) and 20 cases of term pregnancy (normal pregnancy group) and their correlations with symptoms and perinatal outcome of neonates were analyzed. Results (1) The KiSS-1mRNA and metastin expression levels in trophoblasts of preeclampsia group were 1.73?0.24 (A value) and (78.4?8.0) ?g/ 100 ?g total protein separately,those of mild preeclampsia were (1.50?0.15) and (72.4?6.9) ?g/ 100 ?g total protein , and severe preeclampsia were (1.87?0.20) and (83.52?3.57) ?g/100 ?g total protein , which were all significantly higher than those of normal pregnancy group [1.24?0.25, P

Objective To investigate T cell receptor(TCR)variable β(BV)chain usage at the maternal-fetal interface and explore the relationship between the skewed TCR BV usage and unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion(BSA).Methods Eighteen cases with unexplained RSA,together with matched 41 women with normal pregnancies in first trimester from Renji Hospital,Shanghai Jiao Tong University were studied.A high-resolution spectrum typing analysis of complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3)was used to detect and compare the degree and frequency of TCR BV family expression in deciduas between RSA patients and normal controls.Results(1)The expression degree of BV19(0.029±0.031 vs.0.013±0.010,P=0.038)in RSA group showed a higher usage,while BV5.2(0.040±0.035 vs.0.067±0.052,P=0.046)showed a significantly lower usage when compared with normal controls.No significant difference in the expression of the other TCR BV families between RSA and controls were observed(P>0.05).(2),TCR BV2,3,6,and 7 were the four most common BV families in deciduas of patients with RSA and normal controls,whose frequencies were all mors than 50%.In RSA group,higher frequencies of BV15 (33.3%vs.7.3%,P=0.018),BV19(38.9%vs.14.6%,P=0.049)and BV20(33.3%vs.7.3%,P=0.018)were observed;meanuhile lower frequencies of BV4(33.3%vs.65.9%,P=0.026)and BV7 (66.7%vs.92.7%.P=0.018)distributions were observed.The other TCR BV families did not display significantly different freqencies of distribution(P>0.05).Conclusions It is suggested that a significant skewed TCR BV family occurs at the maternal-fetal interface in patients who undergo abortion.The specific skewed usages of TCR BV might be associated with the susceptibility to unexplained pregnancy loss.