Department of Gamete and Embryo Biology, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, Olsztyn, Poland.
Mol Reprod Dev. 2014 Mar;81(3):270-81. doi: 10.1002/mrd.22297. Epub 2014 Jan 17.
Infusion of seminal plasma in the uterus is known to elicit an instant inflammatory response in the porcine uterus, but whether or not it prepares a uterine immunological response to the presence of conceptuses is not well understood. Seminal plasma induced long-term modulatory effects and conceptus-induced immune changes in leukocyte populations were measured by flow cytometry and mRNAs for various cytokines by quantitative reverse-transcriptase PCR in porcine endometrium collected on Days 6 and 13 from cycling and pregnant animals or from animals given seminal plasma infusions. Seminal plasma infusion induced long-term modulatory effects, resulting in significantly more endometrial FoxP3-positive T-regulatory and T-helper cells 6 days after infusion as compared to cycling and pregnant animals. The number of T-cytotoxic and T-null cells did not change between the studied groups. The early molecular effects of seminal plasma were not observed at 13-days post-infusion, although animals on Day 13 of pregnancy did show significantly more T-cells (of any type investigated). Seminal plasma also showed a delayed effect on cytokine expression, specifically exhibiting a significant increase in interleukin 10 (IL10) and a decrease in granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GMCSF) gene expression on Day 13 as compared to Day 6 of cycling or pregnant gilts. The results indicate a delayed regulatory effect of seminal plasma on immune responses in the porcine uterus, which are similar to immune changes generated by implanting conceptuses.
精液注入子宫会立即引发猪子宫的炎症反应,但它是否为胚胎存在做好了子宫免疫应答的准备,目前还不太清楚。通过流式细胞术测量了精液诱导的白细胞群体的长期调节作用和胚胎诱导的免疫变化,并通过定量逆转录聚合酶链反应测量了来自发情和妊娠动物或接受精液输注动物的第 6 天和第 13 天的猪子宫内膜中的各种细胞因子的 mRNA。精液输注诱导了长期的调节作用,与发情和妊娠动物相比,输注后 6 天,子宫内膜中 FoxP3 阳性 T 调节和辅助性 T 细胞的数量明显增加。研究组之间 T 细胞毒性和 T 细胞缺乏细胞的数量没有变化。尽管妊娠第 13 天的动物确实显示出更多的 T 细胞(研究的任何类型),但在输注后 13 天未观察到精液的早期分子作用。精液还对细胞因子表达表现出延迟作用,具体表现为与发情或妊娠小母猪的第 6 天相比,第 13 天白细胞介素 10(IL10)的表达显著增加,粒细胞巨噬细胞集落刺激因子(GMCSF)的基因表达显著降低。结果表明,精液对猪子宫免疫反应具有延迟的调节作用,与胚胎植入产生的免疫变化相似。