EFFECT OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION ON PROGESTERONE CONVERSION INTO A METABOLITE 5α-PREGNAN-3.20-DIONE IN THE PLACENTA IN EARLY PREGNANCY

The aim was to study the activity of progesterone and 5α-pregnan-3.20-dione conversion in the placenta at the exacerbation of cytomegalovirus infection (CMVI) during the first trimester of pregnancy. The study material included 50 villous chorions taken during medical abortions in the period of 8-10 weeks from women with exacerbation of chronic CMVI during pregnancy. The control group had 35 villous chorions of pregnant women of the same gestation period with chronic CMVI in the latent stage. Diagnosis of CMVI was performed taking into account the activity of CMVI with the immune-enzyme method by the level of antibodies of IgM and antibody titers of IgG in the paired serums in dynamics in 10 days. The progesterone content was determined at the “Stat Fax-2100ˮ spectrophotometer. The activity of 4-pregnene-3.20-dione dehydrogenase and 5α-pregnane-3.20-dione dehydrogenase was assessed by the histochemical method. Quantitative evaluation of the reaction products was carried out on sections under the microscope “Meiji Technoˮ connected to the software-hardware complex “SCION Corporationˮ. It was found out that progesterone content in villous chorions of women with reactivation of CMVI during pregnancy was reduced to 21.5±2.73 nmol/L in comparison with the control group (53.4±3.70 nmol/L, р<0.001). The disturbance of progesterone inversion intensiveness in placenta was proved by the decrease of enzyme activity: of 4-pregnene-3.20-dione dehydrogenase till 15.9±0.47 standard units (in control it was 28.6±0.58 standard units, р<0.001) and of 5α-pregnan-3.20-dione till 16.2±1.11 standard units (in control it was 25.0±1.91 standard units, р<0.001). Reduction in the intensity of progesterone conversion into 5α-dihydroprogesterone (5α-pregnan-3.20-dione) in the placenta with the exacerbation of CMVI can negatively affect the formation and functioning of the fetal nervous system.

5α-дигидропрогестерон, cytomegalovirus infection, villous chorion, pregnancy, progesterone, 5α-dihydroprogesterone, allopregnenolone

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