Melatonin: the watchdog of villous trophoblast homeostasis against hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis.

Dave Lanoix 1 Andrée-Anne Lacasse 1 Russel J Reiter 2 Cathy Vaillancourt 1, *
* Corresponding author
1 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier
2 Department of Cellular & Structural Biology
Abstract : Human placenta produces melatonin and expresses its receptors. We propose that melatonin, an antioxidant, protects the human placenta against hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R)-induced damage. Primary term villous cytotrophoblasts were cultured under normoxia (8% O2) with or without 1mM melatonin for 72h to induce differentiation into the syncytiotrophoblast. The cells were then cultured for an additional 22h under normoxia or subjected to hypoxia (0.5% O2) for 4h followed by 18h reoxygenation (8% O2) with or without melatonin. H/R induced oxidative stress, which activated the Bax/Bcl-2 mitochondrial apoptosis pathway and the downstream fragmentation of DNA. Villous trophoblast treatment with melatonin reversed all the negative effects induced by H/R to normoxic levels. This study shows that melatonin protects the villous trophoblast against H/R-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis and suggests a potential preventive and therapeutic use of this indolamine in pregnancy complications characterized by syncytiotrophoblast survival alteration.
Keywords : Mitochondrial apoptosis Villous trophoblast Reactive oxygen species Antioxidant
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Dave Lanoix, Andrée-Anne Lacasse, Russel J Reiter, Cathy Vaillancourt. Melatonin: the watchdog of villous trophoblast homeostasis against hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis.. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Elsevier, 2013, 381 (1-2), pp.35-45. ⟨10.1016/j.mce.2013.07.010. ⟩. ⟨pasteur-01131943⟩

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