Observational studyClinical epigenetics2020
Developmental programming in human umbilical cord vein endothelial cells following fetal growth restriction.
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- The Role of Exosomes in Offspring Metabolic Programming in Gestational Diabetes: Mechanisms and Potential Applications.International journal of biological sciences · 2026Review
- The correlation of umbilical cord blood quality and placental function with neonatal outcomes in fetal growth restriction.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- NAT10 Regulates the Migration, Invasion, and Angiogenesis of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells Through acApplied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Reshaping the chromatin landscape in HUVECs from small-for-gestational-age newborns.JCI insight · 2025Article
- The molecular mechanisms of IUGR programmed adulthood cardiovascular disease.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
- Identification of Key Mitochondrial Autophagy-Related Genes in Fetal Growth Restriction.International journal of women's health · 2025Article
- Value of Non-Coding RNA Expression in Biofluids to Identify Patients at Low Risk of Pathologies Associated with Pregnancy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Prenatal Sildenafil and Fetal-placental Programming in Human Pregnancies Complicated by Fetal Growth Restriction: A Retrospective Gene Expression Analysis.Journal of trial and error · 2023Article
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- DNA Methylation Changes in Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients.Biological research for nursing · 2023Article
- The Update of Fetal Growth Restriction Associated with Biomarkers.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2022Review
- Quantifying Fetal Reprogramming for Biomarker Development in the Era of High-Throughput Sequencing.Genes · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundFetal growth restriction (FGR) is associated with an increased susceptibility for various noncommunicable diseases in adulthood, including cardiovascular and renal disease. During FGR, reduced uteroplacental blood flow, oxygen and nutrient supply to the fetus are hypothesized to detrimentally influence cardiovascular and renal programming. This study examined whether developmental programming profiles, especially related to the cardiovascular and renal system, differ in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) collected from pregnancies complicated by placental insufficiency-induced FGR compared to normal growth pregnancies. Our approach, involving transcriptomic profiling by RNA-sequencing and gene set enrichment analysis focused on cardiovascular and renal gene sets and targeted DNA methylation assays, contributes to the identification of targets underlying long-term cardiovascular and renal diseases.
resultsGene set enrichment analysis showed several downregulated gene sets, most of them involved in immune or inflammatory pathways or cell cycle pathways. seven of the 22 significantly upregulated gene sets related to kidney development and four gene sets involved with cardiovascular health and function were downregulated in FGR (n = 11) versus control (n = 8). Transcriptomic profiling by RNA-sequencing revealed downregulated expression of LGALS1, FPR3 and NRM and upregulation of lincRNA RP5-855F14.1 in FGR compared to controls. DNA methylation was similar for LGALS1 between study groups, but relative hypomethylation of FPR3 and hypermethylation of NRM were present in FGR, especially in male offspring. Absolute differences in methylation were, however, small.
conclusionThis study showed upregulation of gene sets related to renal development in HUVECs collected from pregnancies complicated by FGR compared to control donors. The differentially expressed gene sets related to cardiovascular function and health might be in line with the downregulated expression of NRM and upregulated expression of lincRNA RP5-855F14.1 in FGR samples; NRM is involved in cardiac remodeling, and lincRNAs are correlated with cardiovascular diseases. Future studies should elucidate whether the downregulated LGALS1 and FPR3 expressions in FGR are angiogenesis-modulating regulators leading to placental insufficiency-induced FGR or whether the expression of these genes can be used as a biomarker for increased cardiovascular risk. Altered DNA methylation might partly underlie FPR3 and NRM differential gene expression differences in a sex-dependent manner.
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