Prednisone improves pregnancy outcome in repeated implantation failure by enhance regulatory T cells bias.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVE:Repeated implantation failure (RIF) has been shown related to maternal immune imbalance. Many studies suggested that prednisone promoted the Th17/Treg balance shift to the direction of immune tolerance. Our study aimed to evaluate the role of prednisone in Th17/Treg balance and pregnancy outcome in RIF patients. STUDY DESIGN AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Peripheral blood of healthy fertile controls and RIF patients were collected at the late proliferation phase. The population of Treg and Th17 cells, the expression of Foxp3 and RORC mRNA and the concentration of IL-17A, IL-23 and IL-10 were detected by flow cytometry, qRT-PCR and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. RIF patients were given oral prednisone 10 mg daily from the late proliferation phase of the cycle before FET. After one month of treatment, the above immune indicators were tested, and natural cycle frozen embryo transfer was performed. RESULTS:The Treg cells proportion and IL-10 concentration in peripheral blood of RIF patients was lower than that of NF group, while the proportion of Th17 cells and concentration of proinflammatory cytokine were significantly higher. After prednisone treatment, the indicators related to immune tolerance increased significantly. Five out of 19 RIF patients were successful pregnancy after FET, in which, one had an early miscarriage and four live births. No pregnancy complications and fetal abnormalities were observed. CONCLUSIONS:We report the beneficial effect of prednisone on RIF patients. The underlying mechanism may attribute to shift the Treg/Th17 immune balance to a Treg bias, and enhance embryo implantation, ultimately improve pregnancy outcomes.

journal_name

J Reprod Immunol

authors

Huang Q,Wu H,Li M,Yang Y,Fu X

doi

10.1016/j.jri.2020.103245

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2021-02-01 00:00:00

pages

103245

eissn

0165-0378

issn

1872-7603

pii

S0165-0378(20)30166-2

journal_volume

143

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