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ArticleScientific reports2021

A mouse model of prenatal exposure to Interleukin-6 to study the developmental origin of health and disease.

Tarak Srivastava, Trupti Joshi, Daniel P Heruth, Mohammad H Rezaiekhaligh, Robert E Garola, Jianping Zhou, Varun C Boinpelly, Mohammed Farhan Ali, Uri S Alon, Madhulika Sharma and 8 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Tarak SrivastavaSection of Nephrology, Children's Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri at Kansas City, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, USA. tsrivastava@cmh.edu.
Trupti JoshiDepartment of Health Management and Informatics and MU Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Daniel P HeruthChildren's Mercy Research Institute, Children's Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Mohammad H RezaiekhalighSection of Nephrology, Children's Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri at Kansas City, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, USA.
Robert E GarolaDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Jianping ZhouMidwest Veterans' Biomedical Research Foundation (MVBRF), Kansas City, MO, USA.
Varun C BoinpellyMidwest Veterans' Biomedical Research Foundation (MVBRF), Kansas City, MO, USA.
Mohammed Farhan AliSection of Nephrology, Children's Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri at Kansas City, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, USA.
Uri S AlonSection of Nephrology, Children's Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri at Kansas City, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, USA.
Madhulika SharmaDepartment of Internal Medicine, The Jared Grantham Kidney Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
Gregory B Vanden HeuvelDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
Pramod MahajanDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, USA.
Lakshmi PriyaSection of Nephrology, Children's Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri at Kansas City, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, USA.
Yuexu JiangDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Ellen T McCarthyDepartment of Internal Medicine, The Jared Grantham Kidney Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
Virginia J SavinKansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Ram SharmaKansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Mukut SharmaMidwest Veterans' Biomedical Research Foundation (MVBRF), Kansas City, MO, USA.
Children's Mercy Hospital · USBiomedical Research Foundation · USKansas City VA Medical Center · USUniversity of Kansas Medical Center · USUniversity of Missouri · USDrake University · USStryker (United States) · US

Funding

Targeting PGE2 Receptors to attenuate shear stress-induced glomerular injuryR01DK107490 · NIDDK · CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSP (KANSAS CITY, MO) · PI SRIVASTAVA, TARAK · 2016 to 2020
$2.0M
Implications of Notch signaling in HIV associated nephropathyR01DK108433 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SHARMA, MADHULIKA · 2015 to 2019
$743k
Cytokine based murine focal glomerulosclerosis model a prelude to novel therapyI01BX001037 · VA · KANSAS CITY VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI SAVIN, VIRGINIA J. · 2011 to 2014
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BLRD VA I01 BX001037NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK107490NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK108433
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systemic inflammation in pregnant obese women is associated with 1.5- to 2-fold increase in serum Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and newborns with lower kidney/body weight ratio but the role of IL-6 in increased susceptibility to chronic kidney (CKD) in adult progeny is not known. Since IL-6 crosses the placental barrier, we administered recombinant IL-6 (10 pg/g) to pregnant mice starting at mid-gestation yielded newborns with lower body (p < 0.001) and kidney (p < 0.001) weights. Histomorphometry indicated decreased nephrogenic zone width (p = 0.039) with increased numbers of mature glomeruli (p = 0.002) and pre-tubular aggregates (p = 0.041). Accelerated maturation in IL-6 newborns was suggested by early expression of podocyte-specific protein podocin in glomeruli, increased 5-methyl-cytosine (LC-MS analysis for CpG DNA methylation) and altered expression of certain genes of cell-cycle and apoptosis (RT-qPCR array-analysis). Western blotting showed upregulated pJAK2/pSTAT3. Thus, treating dams with IL-6 as a surrogate provides newborns to study effects of maternal systemic inflammation on future susceptibility to CKD in adulthood.

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AnimalsAnimals, NewbornApoptosisBirth WeightCell CycleFemaleInterleukin-6KidneyMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLOrgan SizePregnancyPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsInterleukin-6

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PMID34168254
PMCPMC8225793
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