Abstract
Decidualization is essential to rodent and primate pregnancy. Senescence is increased during decidualization. Failure of senescence clearance during decidualization will cause pregnancy abnormality. Caveolin-1 is located in plasmalemmal caveolae and involved in senescence. However, whether caveolin-1 is involved in decidualization remains undefined. In this study, we examined the expression, regulation and function of Caveolin-1 during mouse early pregnancy and under mouse and human in vitro decidualization. From days 1 to 8 of pregnancy, Caveolin-1 signals are mainly located in endothelium and myometrium. Estrogen stimulates Caveolin-1 expression in endothelium. Deficiency of estrogen receptor α significantly promotes Caveolin-1 level in uterine stromal cells. Progesterone upregulates Caveolin-1 expression in luminal epithelium. During mouse in vitro decidualization, Caveolin-1 is significantly increased. However, Caveolin-1 is obviously decreased during human in vitro decidualization. Caveolin-1 overexpression and siRNA suppress and upregulate IGFBP1 expression under in vitro decidualization, respectively. Blastocysts-derived tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) and human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) regulate Caveolin-1 in mouse and human decidual cells, respectively. Caveolin-1 levels are also regulated by high glucose and insulin. In conclusion, a low level of Caveolin-1 should be beneficial for human decidualization.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 3699 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | International Journal of Molecular Sciences |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 Apr 1 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Funding: This work was funded by National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC1004400] and National Natural Science Foundation of China [31871511 and 31671563].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Cell and Molecular Biology
Free keywords
- Caveolin-1
- decidualization
- diabetes
- embryo
- estrogen
- insulin
- progesterone
- senescence