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BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY
卷 66, 期 -, 页码 201-209出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.06.016
关键词
Pregnancy; Hormones; Microglia; Immune function; Peripartum depression; Mood and anxiety disorders
资金
- NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
- NIH [R21MH104280, R01MH106553]
There is strong evidence that the immune system changes dramatically during pregnancy in order to prevent the developing fetus from being attacked by the maternal immune system. Due to these alterations in peripheral immune function, many women that suffer from autoimmune disorders actually find significant relief from their symptoms throughout pregnancy; however, these changes can also leave the mother more susceptible to infections that would otherwise be mitigated by the inflammatory response (Robinson and Klein, 2012). Only one other study has looked at changes in microglial number and morphology during pregnancy and the postpartum period (Haim et al., 2016), but no one has yet examined the neuroimmune response following an immune challenge during this time. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the impact of an immune challenge during various time-points throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period on the expression of immune molecules in the brain of the mother and fetus. Our results indicate that similar to the peripheral immune suppression measured during pregnancy, we also see significant suppression of the immune response in the maternal brain, particularly during late gestation. In contrast to the peripheral immune system, immune modulation in the maternal brain extends moderately into the postpartum period. Additionally, we found that the fetal immune response in the brain and placenta is also suppressed just before parturition, suggesting that cytokine production in the fetus and placenta are mirroring the peripheral cytokine response of the mother. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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