Circulating levels of pregnanolone isomers during the third trimester of human pregnancy
Jazyk angličtina Země Anglie, Velká Británie Médium print-electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články, práce podpořená grantem
PubMed
17583491
DOI
10.1016/j.jsbmb.2006.10.010
PII: S0960-0760(07)00087-8
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- MeSH
- dospělí MeSH
- isomerie MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladiství MeSH
- plynová chromatografie s hmotnostně spektrometrickou detekcí MeSH
- pregnanolon krev MeSH
- těhotenství MeSH
- třetí trimestr těhotenství MeSH
- Check Tag
- dospělí MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladiství MeSH
- těhotenství MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Názvy látek
- pregnanolon MeSH
This study addresses the question of whether changes in the biosynthesis and metabolism of neuroactive pregnanolone isomers (PIs) might participate in the timing of parturition in humans. The time profiles of unconjugated allopregnanolone (3alpha-hydroxy-5alpha-pregnan-20-one, P3alpha5alpha), pregnanolone (3alpha-hydroxy-5beta-pregnan-20-one, P3alpha5beta), isopregnanolone (3beta-hydroxy-5alpha-pregnan-20-one, P3beta5alpha) and epipregnanolone (3beta-hydroxy-5beta-pregnan-20-one, P3beta5beta), pregnenolone, their polar conjugates, progesterone, 5alpha-dihydroprogesterone (P5alpha), and 5beta-dihydroprogesterone (P5beta) were monitored in the plasma of 30 healthy women during the third trimester of pregnancy, at 1-week intervals from the 30th week of gestation using GC-MS. Changes in the steroid levels were evaluated by two-way ANOVA with gestational age and subject as independent factors. The mean concentrations of free PIs ranged from 2 to 50 nmol/L, while the mean levels of their polar conjugates were 40-100 x higher. The ratio of 5alpha-PIs to progesterone significantly but inconspicuously culminated in the 35th week. The decelerating biosynthesis of free 5beta-PIs from the 31st week and their escalating sulfation was found from the 30th week. The changes were particularly evident in the second most abundant PI pregnanolone that may, like the allopregnanolone, sustain the pregnancy via attenuation of hypothalamic GABA(A)-receptors and prevent uterine contractility via binding to nuclear pregnane X receptor.
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