Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides Expression in the Uterine Scar After Cesarean Section. 2017

Antonio Malvasi, and Carlo Cavallotti, and Sarah Gustapane, and Francesco Giacci, and Silvia Di Tommaso, and Daniele Vergara, and Ospan A Mynbaev, and Andrea Tinelli
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Santa Maria Hospital, Bari, Italy.

Peptides and neuropeptides influence the uterine disorders of healing or cicatrization, chronic pelvic pain and disorder of pregnancy, labor and puerperium. They also promote changes in the lower uterine segment (LUS) during pregnancy, labor and delivery. We investigated the tissue quantity of neurotensin (NT), neuropeptide tyrosin (NPY) and Protein Gene Product 9.5 (PGP 9.5) in women submitted to elective cesarean section (CS) and urgent CS. During surgery, authors biopsied tissue samples of vesico-uterine space (VUS) to detect nerve fibers, and compared them. VUS samples from 106 patients have been evaluated with light microscopy, immunochemistry and Immunohistochemistry, and finally by Quantimet Leica analyzer software. Significantly higher amount of nerve fibers, containing NT, NPY and PGP 9.5 have been found in VUS tissue samples obtained during the first elective CS and during the first urgent CS were respectively 5±0.7, 7±0.6 and 5±0.9 CU and 2.5±0.5, 3.6±0.4 and 3.5±0.9 CU (p<0.05). This neurotransmitter reduction should indicate the inflammatory damage of cervical tissue for LUS over distension in dystocic-prolonged labor before CS. These results may be correlated with the decrease of NT, NPY and PGP 9.5, responsible for an optimal healing and LUS functions. In our opinion, the presence of neuropeptides reduction in uterine samples of women undergoing urgent CS may be due to a prolonged fetal head station in LUS, with a tissue denervation, in consequence of both overdistension and inflammatory process of the dystocic LUS.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009479 Neuropeptides Peptides released by NEURONS as intercellular messengers. Many neuropeptides are also hormones released by non-neuronal cells. Neuropeptide
D011247 Pregnancy The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH. Gestation,Pregnancies
D002585 Cesarean Section Extraction of the FETUS by means of abdominal HYSTEROTOMY. Abdominal Delivery,Delivery, Abdominal,C-Section (OB),Caesarean Section,Postcesarean Section,Abdominal Deliveries,C Section (OB),C-Sections (OB),Caesarean Sections,Cesarean Sections,Deliveries, Abdominal
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D014599 Uterus The hollow thick-walled muscular organ in the female PELVIS. It consists of the fundus which is the site of EMBRYO IMPLANTATION and FETAL DEVELOPMENT. Beyond the isthmus at the perineal end of fundus, is CERVIX UTERI (the neck) opening into VAGINA. Beyond the isthmi at the upper abdominal end of fundus, are the FALLOPIAN TUBES. Fundus Uteri,Uteri,Uterine Cornua,Uterine Fundus,Uterus Cornua,Womb,Cornua, Uterine,Fundus Uterus,Fundus, Uterine,Uteri, Fundus,Wombs
D018377 Neurotransmitter Agents Substances used for their pharmacological actions on any aspect of neurotransmitter systems. Neurotransmitter agents include agonists, antagonists, degradation inhibitors, uptake inhibitors, depleters, precursors, and modulators of receptor function. Nerve Transmitter Substance,Neurohormone,Neurohumor,Neurotransmitter Agent,Nerve Transmitter Substances,Neurohormones,Neurohumors,Neuromodulator,Neuromodulators,Neuroregulator,Neuroregulators,Neurotransmitter,Neurotransmitters,Substances, Nerve Transmitter,Transmitter Substances, Nerve,Substance, Nerve Transmitter,Transmitter Substance, Nerve

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