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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Downregulation of Placental Amino Acid Transporter Expression and mTORC1 Signaling Activity Contributes to Fetal Growth Retardation in Diabetic Rats.

Jie Xu, Jiao Wang, Yang Cao, Xiaotong Jia, Yujia Huang, Minghui Cai, Chunmei Lu, Hui Zhu

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jie XuDepartment of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
Jiao WangDepartment of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
Yang CaoDepartment of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
Xiaotong JiaDepartment of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
Yujia HuangDepartment of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
Minghui CaiDepartment of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
Chunmei LuDepartment of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
Hui ZhuDepartment of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
Harbin Medical University · CNMinistry of Education of the People's Republic of China · CN

Funding

China Postdoctoral Fund 2018M640304Heilongjiang Natural Science Foundation QC2017089Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Foundation LBH-Z18108Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Scientific Research Developmental Fund LBH-Q18098University Nursing Program for Young Scholars with Creative Talents in Heilongjiang Province UNPYSCT-2018054
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alterations in placental transport may contribute to abnormal fetal intrauterine growth in pregnancies complicated by diabetes, but it is not clear whether the placental amino acid transport system is altered in diabetic pregnancies. We therefore studied the changes in the expressions of placental amino acid transporters in a rat model of diabetes induced by streptozotocin, and tested the effects of hyperglycemia on trophoblast amino acid transporter in vitro. Our results showed that the expressions for key isoforms of system L amino acid transporters were significantly reduced in the placentas of streptozotocin-induced diabetic pregnant rats, which was associated with the decreased birthweight in the rats. A decreased placental efficiency and decreased placental mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) complex 1 (mTORC1) activity were also found in the rat model. In addition, hyperglycemia in vitro could inhibit amino acid transporter expression and mTORC1 activity in human trophoblast. Inhibition of mTORC1 activity led to reduced amino acid transporter expression in placental trophoblast. We concluded that reduced placental mTORC1 activity during pregnancy resulted in decreased placental amino acid transporter expression and, subsequently, contributed to fetal intrauterine growth restriction in pregnancies complicated with diabetes.

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Amino Acid Transport System AAmino Acid Transport System LAnimalsCell LineDiabetes Mellitus, ExperimentalFemaleFetal Growth RetardationHumansMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1PlacentaPregnancyRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyStreptozocinAmino Acid Transport System AAmino Acid Transport System LMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1Streptozocinamino acid transportergestational diabetesmammalian target of rapamycinplacenta

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PMID32156054
PMCPMC7084659
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