Progestin-indusced decidualisation promotes human endometrial haemostasis and vascular stabulity

In: Implantation and Early Development · 2005 · pp. 32–48 · doi:10.1017/cbo9781107784680.005 · W2481570790
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Progestin-induced decidualization of the human endometrium converts interstitial ECM to a stabilizing matrix that promotes hemostasis and vascular stability, aiding implantation.

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This chapter examines how progestin-induced decidualisation in the human endometrium affects haemostasis and vascular stability during implantation, using evidence from in situ hybridisation and immunohistochemistry of human endometrial sections alongside in vitro studies of human endometrial stromal cells. It reports that decidualisation produces a pro-haemostatic environment with coordinated upregulation of tissue factor and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, shifting fibrin deposition and limiting fibrinolysis, while peridecidual extracellular matrix remodeling is characterized by increased basal laminar-type proteins and reduced ECM-degrading activity. Mechanistically, elevated PAI-1 inhibits plasmin generation from uPA, and progestin further suppresses synthesis of MMP1 and MMP3, thereby preserving perivascular ECM support to resist bleeding during endovascular trophoblast invasion. The paper focuses specifically on implantation biology in vitro and in endometrial tissue analyses, without direct functional measures of bleeding outcomes in the broader clinical implantation context. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — adenomyosis relevant decidual/progestin-controlled endometrial haemostasis and vascular stability mechanisms that could overlap with how these conditions involve aberrant endometrial tissue behavior.

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This chapter focuses on the role of progestin-induced decidualisation in regulating endometrial haemostasis and vascular stability. Observations made by in situ hybridisation and immunohistochemistry of endometrial sections, together with in vitro studies of human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs), indicate that progest-ininduced decidualisation creates a pro-haemostatic, vascular-stabilising milieu that resists bleeding. During decidualisation of human endometrium, the interstitial-type extracellular matrix (ECM) of the follicular phase, which is enriched in fibronectin and collagen types I, III,V and VI, is converted to a mixture of residual interstitial proteins and new peridecidual basal laminar-type components. The resulting peridecidual cell ECM plays an integral role in implantation by modulating migration of the invading trophoblast and in counteracting the threat of local haemorrhage during endovascular trophoblast invasion by serving as a vascular support and stabilising scaffolding structure. Uterine natural killer (NK) cells have been implicated in maintaining decidualisation and in limiting trophoblast invasion.
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- Frontmatter - Contents - DECLARATION OF INTEREST - Participants - Preface - SECTION 1 PREPARATION FOR IMPLANTATION – THE UTERINE ENVIRONMENT - 1 Endocrine and paracrine signalling in the human endometrium: potential role for for the prostanoid family in implantation - 2 Immunology of implantation - 3 Progestin-indusced decidualisation promotes human endometrial haemostasis and vascular stabulity - 4 Adhesion molecules and implantation - 5 Vascular growth and modelling in the endometrium - 6 Tissue remodelling the fetal-maternal interface: the regulation of matrix metalloproteinase 9 transcription - 7 Embryo interactions in human implantation - 8 Experimental models of implantation of the human embryo: reconstructing the endometrial–embryo dialogue in vitro - SECTION 2 THE EMBRYO - SECTION 3 LESSONS FROM ANIMAL MODELS (TRANSGENICS) AND NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES - SECTION 4 CLINICAL SEQUELAE - SECTION 5 CONSENSUS VIEWS - Index from SECTION 1 - PREPARATION FOR IMPLANTATION – THE UTERINE ENVIRONMENT Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014 Book contents - Frontmatter - Contents - DECLARATION OF INTEREST - Participants - Preface - SECTION 1 PREPARATION FOR IMPLANTATION – THE UTERINE ENVIRONMENT - 1 Endocrine and paracrine signalling in the human endometrium: potential role for for the prostanoid family in implantation - 2 Immunology of implantation - 3 Progestin-indusced decidualisation promotes human endometrial haemostasis and vascular stabulity - 4 Adhesion molecules and implantation - 5 Vascular growth and modelling in the endometrium - 6 Tissue remodelling the fetal-maternal interface: the regulation of matrix metalloproteinase 9 transcription - 7 Embryo interactions in human implantation - 8 Experimental models of implantation of the human embryo: reconstructing the endometrial–embryo dialogue in vitro - SECTION 2 THE EMBRYO - SECTION 3 LESSONS FROM ANIMAL MODELS (TRANSGENICS) AND NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES - SECTION 4 CLINICAL SEQUELAE - SECTION 5 CONSENSUS VIEWS - Index Overview During human implantation, endovascular trophoblast invasion occurs within a matrix of decidualised stromal cells that are ideally positioned to mitigate the associated threat of pregnancy-terminating local haemorrhage. Observations made by in situ hybridisation and immunohistochemistry of endometrial sections, together with in vitro studies of human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs), indicate that progestin-induced decidualisation creates a pro-haemostatic, vascular-stabilising milieu that resists bleeding. Thus, decidualisation is associated with coordinated upregulation in the expression of: • tissue factor (TF), which promotes haemostasis by enhancing fibrin deposition via thrombin generation • plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1), the fast inactivator of the primary fibrinolytic agent, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Coincidently, the peridecidual cell extracellular matrix (ECM) becomes enriched in basal laminar-type proteins, which reflects the reciprocal synthesis of new ECM proteins and inhibition in their degradation. ECM degradation is initiated by surface receptor-bound urokinase (urokinase plasminogen activator, uPA). However, the plasmin-forming activity of this uPA is inhibited by elevated levels of PAI-1 stemming from progesterone-regulated decidualisation. Plasmin can degrade several ECM proteins and activates the zymogenic form of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which degrade the bulk ECM components. Therefore, lower plasmin output results in a profound inhibition of ECM-degrading activity, which is complemented by direct progestin inhibition of the synthesis by HESCs of at least two members of the MMP family, MMP1 and MMP3. This coordinated inhibition of proteolysis strengthens the perivascular ECM support scaffolding. The resulting stabilisation of the endometrial vasculature in a pro-haemostatic milieu protects against bleeding during endovascular trophoblast invasion. - Type - Chapter - Information - Implantation and Early Development , pp. 32 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005 Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this chapter is currently unknown and may be updated in the future. To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle. 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