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The pro-and antioxidant systems of the human placenta have been studied in its central and peripheral areas in the state of dysfunction. It has been shown that the intensity of free-radical oxidation (FRO) is 24% higher (p < 0.05) in mitochondria isolated from peripheral placental areas in the case of preterm termination of pregnancy than in placental mitochondria of women with normal pregnancy ending in delivery on due dates. The values of total antioxidant activity in mitochondria isolated from the central and peripheral areas of placentae of women with preterm labor exceeded 1.5-and 1.8-fold the respective values for the placental mitochondria of women with the normal duration of pregnancy. The rate of glutathione peroxidase activity in placental mitochondria of women with preterm labor was lower than in patients with normal duration of pregnancy terminated on due dates. Higher values of intensity of both the FRO processes and the active components of thiobarbituric acid (TBA) were recorded (higher by 42% and 62%, respectively) in the postmitochondrial fraction in the peripheral area of placentae of women with spontaneous termination of pregnancy, compared with the placentae of women with uncomplicated duration of pregnancy with labor on due date. No differences have been observed in the intensity of oxidative modification of placental proteins in both the periphery and the center in the placentae of women from the studied groups. The rate of glutathione peroxidase activity in the placenta of women with spontaneous termination of pregnancy was more than twice as high as the activity of this enzyme during the first trimester of normal pregnancy and remained high during the second and third trimesters. The activity of the enzyme did not depend on its localization (center or periphery) in placentae of women participating in the study. The values of glutathione transferase activity in the placentae increased in the course of normal pregnancy but remained at the level of the first trimester in the central and peripheral areas in the case of a miscarriage at different gestational terms. Our findings allow us to suggest that oxidative stress developing in placenta from its center to periphery plays a key role in the pathogenesis of placental dysfunction, mainly, due to the glutathione-dependent component of the placental antioxidant defense.
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Original Russian Text © V.M. Prokopenko, N.G. Pavlova, 2017, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2017, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 115–123.
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Prokopenko, V.M., Pavlova, N.G. The Role of Pro- and Antioxidant Systems in the Development of Placental Dysfunction in Human Pregnancy. Hum Physiol 43, 711–718 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119717060093
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