Pre-eclampsia-related TLR2/4 signaling activates NOX2/4 to induce oxidative stress and ferroptosis in trophoblasts

Yan Zhang, Yunmei Ke, Baosheng Zhu, Zhuo Chen, Li Ren, Jinman Zhang, Jie Wu · 2025

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Yan Zhang and co-authors study a chain of signals that harms placenta cells in pre-eclampsia, a dangerous pregnancy condition, in work from 2025. Oxidative stress and a form of iron driven cell death are known to hurt the cells that feed the growing baby. The team asked whether immune sensor proteins drive that harm.

Placenta tissue from twenty patients and twenty healthy controls was tested for the sensors and related signals. Placenta like cells were put through low oxygen cycles to mimic the disease. Tests covered growth, movement, invasion, and tube forming. Death and stress markers rose with the signal chain. Blocking it is proposed as a treatment path.

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CREATORYan Zhang, Yunmei Ke, Baosheng Zhu, Zhuo Chen, Li Ren, Jinman Zhang, Jie Wu
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE47 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12821286

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