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ArticleScientific reports2023

The amniotic fluid proteome changes with term labor and informs biomarker discovery in maternal plasma.

Gaurav Bhatti, Roberto Romero, Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa, Nandor Gabor Than, Kevin R Theis, Jose Galaz, Francesca Gotsch, Roger Pique-Regi, Stanley M Berry and 2 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Gaurav BhattiPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA.
Roberto RomeroPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA. prbchiefstaff@med.wayne.edu.
Nardhy Gomez-LopezPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA.
Tinnakorn ChaiworapongsaPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA.
Nandor Gabor ThanPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA.
Kevin R TheisPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA.
Jose GalazPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA.
Francesca GotschPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA.
Roger Pique-RegiPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA.
Stanley M BerryPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA.
Mahendra KavdiaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University College of Engineering, Detroit, MI, USA.
Adi L TarcaPregnancy Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Detroit, MI, USA. atarca@med.wayne.edu.
National Institutes of Health · USWayne State University · USSemmelweis University · HU

Funding

The Role Of Subclinical Infection And Cytokines In Preterm ParturitionZIAHD002400 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI ROMERO, ROBERTO · 2009 to 2025
$254.4M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intra-uterine components of labor, namely, myometrial contractility, cervical ripening, and decidua/membrane activation, have been extensively characterized and involve a local pro-inflammatory milieu of cellular and soluble immune mediators. Targeted profiling has demonstrated that such processes extend to the intra-amniotic space, yet unbiased analyses of the proteome of human amniotic fluid during labor are lacking. Herein, we utilized an aptamer-based platform to characterize 1,310 amniotic fluid proteins and found that the proteome undergoes substantial changes with term labor (251 proteins with differential abundance, q < 0.1, and fold change > 1.25). Proteins with increased abundance in labor are enriched for immune and inflammatory processes, consistent with prior reports of labor-associated changes in the intra-uterine space. By integrating the amniotic fluid proteome with previously generated placental-derived single-cell RNA-seq data, we demonstrated the labor-driven upregulation of signatures corresponding to stromal-3 and decidual cells. We also determined that changes in amniotic fluid protein abundance are reflected in the maternal plasma proteome. Collectively, these findings provide novel insights into the amniotic fluid proteome in term labor and support its potential use as a source of biomarkers to distinguish between true and false labor by using maternal blood samples.

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Amniotic FluidObstetric Labor, PrematureBiomarkersFemaleHumansPlacentaPregnancyProteomeBiomarkersProteome

Identifiers

PMID36823217
PMCPMC9950459
OpenAlexW4321596617

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