Please, advise me any publications in this topic would also be helpful.
Thank you very much, Theocharis! But they measured defensins only in cervix uteri, not in endometrium. I'm looking for information about correlation of antimicrobial peptides between cervix and endometrium. If we see, that level of antimicrobial peptides in cervix was increased in some conditions, does it mean, that in endometrium it will be the same or not?
There is a paper which you might find of interest:
Davies et al in Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2008; 6: 53. - an animal study on antimicrobial peptide expression using RT-PCR http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627908/
I couldn't find publications for cervix, apart from one published in 2000 paper on antimicrobial properties of cervical mucus plug (http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/4/778.full.pdf)
Curiously little in the literature on this topic - good luck.
Thank you very much for your answer, Maria! Yes, there are some publications separately about endometrial cells or about cervix uteri, but not about interrelations between both sites.
just because they are close does not make them the same! The endometrium is a completely different environment and I would say not influenced by what is going on in the cervical region
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