| Abstract: | In cervical secretions of healthy non-pregnant women of the reproductive age high concentrations of ant-inflammatory cytokines, greatly exceeding those in blood serum, were detected. During pregnancy the level of TNF-alpha in cervical secretions dropped. The inflammation of the uterus neck was accompanied by a drop in the levels of IL-alpha and IL-1beta and a rise in the level of IL-8 in cervical secretions in pregnant and non-pregnant women. Similar changes in the cytokine profile occurred also in the blood serum, but they were less pronounced and could be observed only in non-pregnant women. The threat of the interruption of pregnancy, developing simultaneously with cervicitis, was accompanied not only by changes in the levels of cytokines in cervical secretions, but also by a perceptible increase in the content of IL-1alpha in the blood serum. |
