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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 309, Issue 8, Pages R884-R891Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00154.2015
Keywords
hypertension; pregnancy; inflammation; oxidative stress; regulatory T cells
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- National Institutes of Health [HL-105324, HL-126301, HL-124715, HL-51971, HL-78147, HD-067541]
- German Research Foundation
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The reduced uterine perfusion pressure (RUPP) rat model of preeclampsia exhibits much of the pathology characterizing this disease, such as hypertension, inflammation, suppressed regulatory T cells (T(Reg)s), reactive oxygen species (ROS), and autoantibodies to the ANG II type I receptor (AT(1)-AA) during pregnancy. The objective of this study was to determine whether supplementation of normal pregnant (NP) T(Reg)s into RUPP rats would attenuate the pathophysiology associated with preeclampsia during pregnancy. CD4(+)/CD25(+) T cells were isolated from spleens of NP and RUPP rats, cultured, and injected into gestation day (GD) 12 normal pregnant rats that underwent the RUPP procedure on GD 14. On GD 1, mean arterial pressure (MAP) was recorded, and blood and tissues were collected for analysis. One-way ANOVA was used for statistical analysis. MAP increased from 99 +/- 2 mmHg in NP (n = 12) to 127 +/- 2 mmHg in RUPP (n = 21) but decreased to 118 +/- 2 mmHg in RUPP + NP T(Reg)s (n = 17). Circulating IL-6 and IL-10 were not significantly changed, while circulating TNF-alpha and IL-17 were significantly decreased after supplementation of T(Reg)s. Placental and renal ROS were 339 +/- 58.7 and 603 +/- 88.1 RLU.min(-1).mg(-1) in RUPP and significantly decreased to 178 +/- 27.8 and 171 +/- 55.6 RLU.min(-1).mg(-1), respectively, in RUPP + NP T(Reg)s; AT(1)-AA was 17.81 +/- 1.1 beats per minute (bpm) in RUPP but was attenuated to 0.50 +/- 0.3 bpm with NP T(Reg)s. This study demonstrates that NP T(Reg)s can significantly improve inflammatory mediators, such as IL-17, TNF-alpha, and AT(1)-AA, which have been shown to increase blood pressure during pregnancy.
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