| Literature DB >> 19647472 |
Premila Paiva1, Ellen Menkhorst, Lois Salamonsen, Evdokia Dimitriadis.
Abstract
Blastocyst implantation into a receptive endometrium is critical to the establishment of pregnancy and is tightly regulated by factors within the blastocyst-endometrial micro-environment. Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and interleukin-11 (IL11) have key roles during implantation. Female mice with a null mutation in the LIF or IL11RA gene are infertile due to a complete failure of implantation or a defective differentiation/decidualization response to the implanting blastocyst, respectively. LIF and IL11 deficiency during pregnancy is associated with infertility and miscarriage in women. Numerous cell populations at the maternal-fetal interface are regulated by LIF/IL11 including the endometrial epithelium, decidualizing stroma, placental trophoblasts and leukocytes. This review focuses on the roles of LIF/IL11 during early pregnancy and highlights their potential as contraceptive targets and therapeutic agents for infertility.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19647472 DOI： 10.1016/j.cytogfr.2009.07.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cytokine Growth Factor Rev ISSN： 1359-6101 Impact factor: 7.638