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Miscarriages have become major concern for most of the women carrying babies in middle age or after 30’s. There were suggestions to women about the ideal age to get pregnancy and what to consume during the pregnancy, but the recent study says there is also an invisible reason for the loss of foetus or miscarriage.
The new study focused on how the timing affects the pregnancy, what the body gene timing is. The researchers at the University of Warwick and UHCW have said that the body clock genes can affect women’s ability to have children. They found that the body clock genes in the womb’s linings are temporarily switched off for implanting the embryo.
In their study on the endometrial linings of healthy women and biopsies from women had suffered recurrent miscarriages, they came to know that the women who suffer from the recurrent miscarriages were unable or less able to regulate the clock genes in the lining of the womb, which also given the pictures into how night and shift work could affect female fertility.
Researcher Jan Brosens said that infertility affects one in six women across the world, but the area of body clock genes has not been looked at in this detail before, adding that it’s crucial during pregnancy that mothers and their babies’ embryos are able to synchronise. If this fails to happen, it can cause miscarriage. Brosens noted that it can also increase the risk of complications in later stages of pregnancy such as pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction and pre-term birth.
Researcher Siobhan Quenby added that they believe the study has huge implications in the understanding of the body clock genes and their effect on female fertility and hope that it will increase worldwide knowledge about possible reasons for infertility and recurrent miscarriages, so that we are able to help families achieve their dream of having children.
The study appears in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).
News Source: The Health Site
-Kannamsai
