Increased placental expressions of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 and antioxidant enzymes in gestational diabetes: Protective mechanisms against the placental oxidative stress?
CONCLUSION: Maternal, fetal and placental oxidative stress was observed in gestational diabetes mellitus. The gestational diabetic placenta had an increased Nrf2 protein expression. The activated placental Nrf2/ antioxidant response element (ARE) pathway might have led to an increased expression of antioxidant enzymes SOD1 and catalase. This may be viewed as a protective mechanism in placenta from the further onslaught of oxidative stress.
PMID: 31121342 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Reproductive Biology - Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Manoharan B, Bobby Z, Dorairajan G, Jacob SE, Gladwin V, Vinayagam V, Packirisamy RM Tags: Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol Source Type: research
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