Placental expression of NFAT5, SLC5A3, and aldose reductase in gestational diabetes mellitus
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Abstract
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with a number of problematic elements that prevent the placenta from transporting necessary nutrients and oxygen important for fetal development. Hypertonic stress occurs in uncontrolled GDM, where complications such as fetal abnormalities, spontaneous abortion or stillbirth can occur. Our objective was to investigate the osmolarity factors in gestational diabetes, where we see significant glucose shifts, which could contribute to large swings in osmolarity. We obtained placental biopsies and paraffin embedded placental tissues slides for GDM‐I (gestational diabetes mellitus treated with insulin) and GDM‐D (gestational diabetes mellitus treated with diet), and term controls from the Research center for Women's and Infants’ Health BioBank, Ontario, Canada. After performing and nuclear and cytosolic extraction on the placental tissue, we were able to determine the cytosolic and nuclear expression of the factors involved in the hyperosmolar response. We observed no significant differences in maternal age, gestational weeks and fetal weight between control and GDM pregnancies. There was an upregulated expression of nuclear NFAT5 in GDM‐I (1.55‐fold, p<0.005) and GDM‐D (1.55‐fold, p<0.001) placentas when compared to control placental tissue. In contrast no significant differences were observed for cytosolic NAFT5. There was an upregulation of SMIT protein in GDM‐I (1.45 fold p<0.05) and GDM‐D (1.50‐fold, p<0.05) when compared to control placental tissue. Furthermore immunohistochemical staining confirmed that these changes were observed in the placental trophoblast. The expression of aldose reductase (AR) was not significantly different across GDM and control placentas. Our findings confirm that a hyperosmolar rescue response is necessary for the management of GDM and that this protection could be driven by an increase of inositol production in the placental trophoblast cells. Treatment variation between diet and insulin tissues was not significant and we therefore conclude that the mechanisms involved in correcting this pathology are similar in both treatments during GDM.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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