DISTURBANCE OF 20α-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE ACTIVITY IN VILLOUS CHORION SYNCIOTHYTHROPHOBLAST AT REACTIVATION OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION DURING PREGNANCY

The aim of the work is to assess the effects of cytomegalovirus infection on the 20α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in the villous chorion syncytiotrophoblast in the first trimester of pregnancy. The materials for the study included 48 villous chorions samples taken during spontaneous abortions at 8^th-10^th weeks of gestation from women with reactivation of cytomegalovirus infection (the main group). The control group included 35 villous chorions samples from pregnant women with chronic cytomegalovirus infection in the latent stage taken at medical abortions at the same stage of gestation. The results of women’s examination were studied taken into account the activity of cytomegalovirus infection by immunoassay by detection of IgM antibodies or by 4 times and more increase of IgG antibody titers in the paired serums in dynamics in 10 days. The activity of 20α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase was assessed by the histochemical method. Quantitative evaluation of the reaction products was carried out on sections under the microscope MT (Japan) connected to software-hardware complex «SCION Corporation» (USA). At histochemical specimen of villous chorion of pregnant women who had a reactivation of cytomegalovirus infection during pregnancy (main group), there was a decrease of cytophotometric parameter of 20α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity till 30.1±2.12 pixels/μm² (p<0.001) compared with the control group. The decrease in the reaction activity in syncytiotrophoblast indicated a decrease in the contents of 20α-dihydroprogesterone in placenta, which contributed, in our opinion, to spontaneous abortion.

20α-дигидропрогестерон, cytomegalovirus, villous chorion, pregnancy, progesterone, 20α-hydroxyprogesterone

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