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Jiamin Xie1, Yuqing Xu1, Liuxia Wan1
1Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Introduction:
Preeclampsia is a main cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. The expression of follistatin-like 3 (FSTL3) is enhanced in maternal serum and placenta of preeclamptic women. However, whether FSTL3 is involved in the pathophysiologic of preeclampsia has not been clarified yet.
Method:
Trophoblast cell lines Swan71 and JAR cells were cultured and siRNA was used to silence FSTL3. The expression of FSTL3 was determined by Western blotting. The matrigel-coated transwell and wound healing assays were used to assess invasion and migration, cell proliferation and apoptosis were detected by CCK-8 and flow cytometric analysis, respectively. Oil red O staining was used to detect the lipid storage in trophoblast.
Results:
Hypoxia culture significantly enhanced the expression of FSTL3 by trophoblast. Down-regulation of FSTL3 significantly suppressed the proliferation, migration, invasion and lipid storage but increased apoptosis of trophoblast.
Discussion:
Aberrant expression of FSTL3 in preeclampsia led to the dysfunction of trophoblast, indicating its involvement in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia.
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