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ArticleBMC medical genomics2014

Placental gene-expression profiles of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy reveal involvement of multiple molecular pathways in blood vessel formation and inflammation.

QiaoLing Du, YouDong Pan, YouHua Zhang, HaiLong Zhang, YaJuan Zheng, Ling Lu, JunLei Wang, Tao Duan, JianFeng Chen

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Article in BMC medical genomics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05197387 (Inflammation in Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05197387 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Inflammation in Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy

TypeobservationalSponsorUniversity Hospital, BrestRan2022 to 2025Enrolled322ConditionsCholestasis of Pregnancy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Unfolding newer concepts in placental pathology of obstetric cholestasis-a cause for prematurity.International journal of physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology · 2022
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  17. Molecular Pathogenesis of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy.Canadian journal of gastroenterology & hepatology · 2021
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  19. [Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy : Rare but important].Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

QiaoLing Du
YouDong Pan
YouHua Zhang
HaiLong Zhang
YaJuan Zheng
Ling Lu
JunLei Wang
Tao DuanDepartment of Obstetrics, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200040, China. tduan@yahoo.com.
JianFeng Chen
Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science · CNShanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences · CNTongji University · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIntrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a pregnancy-associated liver disease with potentially deleterious consequences for the fetus, particularly when maternal serum bile-acid concentration >40 μM. However, the etiology and pathogenesis of ICP remain elusive. To reveal the underlying molecular mechanisms for the association of maternal serum bile-acid level and fetal outcome in ICP patients, DNA microarray was applied to characterize the whole-genome expression profiles of placentas from healthy women and women diagnosed with ICP.

methodsThirty pregnant women recruited in this study were categorized evenly into three groups: healthy group; mild ICP, with serum bile-acid concentration ranging from 10-40 μM; and severe ICP, with bile-acid concentration >40 μM. Gene Ontology analysis in combination with construction of gene-interaction and gene co-expression networks were applied to identify the core regulatory genes associated with ICP pathogenesis, which were further validated by quantitative real-time PCR and histological staining.

resultsThe core regulatory genes were mainly involved in immune response, VEGF signaling pathway and G-protein-coupled receptor signaling, implying essential roles of immune response, vasculogenesis and angiogenesis in ICP pathogenesis. This implication was supported by the observed aggregated immune-cell infiltration and deficient blood vessel formation in ICP placentas.

conclusionsOur study provides a system-level insight into the placental gene-expression profiles of women with mild or severe ICP, and reveals multiple molecular pathways in immune response and blood vessel formation that might contribute to ICP pathogenesis.

Indexed as

Gene Expression ProfilingNeovascularization, PathologicAdultBile Acids and SaltsCholestasis, IntrahepaticFemaleHumansInflammationOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPhenotypePlacentaPregnancyPregnancy ComplicationsBile Acids and Salts

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PMID25001852
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