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Transcriptome profiling of adult cardiac tissue of control versus overfed female sheep prenatally treated with bisphenol A

ABSTRACT: Developmental programming is the concept that environmental factors during fetal growth can alter development, metabolism and physiology of an organism, thus diseases can be programmed by intrauterine influences. The fetal origin of health and disease hypothesis has received strong support from experimental studies in animals including livestock species. Using a sheep model, it has been shown that developmental changes of ewe offspring may be susceptible to maternal pregnancy bisphenol A (BPA) treatment. For example, prenatally BPA treated female offspring tended to have reduced birth weight. In this study we sought to identify gene expression differences in ewe offspring as a result of maternal pregnancy BPA treatment on a control or high-caloried diet. Samples of heart tissues were collected during the second breeding season, allowing us to examine gene expression changes in ewes prenatally treated with BPA and maturing under the different diets.

ORGANISM(S): Ovis aries

PROVIDER: GSE77418 | GEO | 2017/01/29

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA310243

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Transcriptomics and functional bioinformatics were used to investigate the potential interactions of undernutrition and the presence of the conceptus at the time of maternal recognition of pregnancy on uterine indicators of metabolism and reproduction. Adult Rasa Aragonesa ewes were allocated to one of two planes of nutrition during 28 days: maintenance energy intake (control; 5 cyclic, 6 pregnant ewes) providing 7.8 MJ of metabolisable energy per ewe and 0.5 maintenance intake (undernourished; 6 cyclic, 7 pregnant ewes) providing 3.9 MJ of metabolisable energy per ewe. RNA from uterine tissue was harvested at slaughter on day 14 of estrus or pregnancy, and hybridized to the Agilent 15K Sheep Microarray chip. Functional bioinformatics analyses were performed using the Dynamic Impact Approach (DIA) and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. Among metabolic pathways, citrate cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, pentose and glucuronate interconversions and biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids were upregulated in control pregnant compared with control cyclic ewes. However, these pathways were not altered in undernourished ewes. The presence of an embryo in undernourished ewes upregulated fatty acid and glycogenic amino acid metabolism. RIG-I and Toll like receptors and chemokine signaling pathways were upregulated by the presence of the embryo in both control and undernourished ewes, but in the latter group the impact was lower. Undernutrition alone upregulated carbohydrate metabolism, but different pathways were altered in cyclic versus pregnant ewes. Citrate cycle, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, and pentose and glucuronate interconversions were upregulated in undernourished cyclic compared with control cyclic ewes. Glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, pyruvate and propanoate metabolism, beta-alanine and phenylalanine metabolism were upregulated in undernourished pregnant compared with control pregnant ewes, whereas biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids and replication and repair were downregulated. Undernutrition alone led to an overall weak activation of immune system pathways both in cyclic and pregnant ewes. However, undernourished cyclic compared with control cyclic ewes had a high activation of NOD-like and RIG-1 like receptor signaling pathways, whereas undernourished pregnant compared with control pregnant ewes only had a weak upregulation of T cell receptor signaling pathways. Overall, data revealed that metabolic and immune adaptations of the uterus to nutrient restriction are dependent on the presence of the conceptus.

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Transcriptome profiling of adult cardiac tissue of control versus overfed female sheep prenatally treated with bisphenol A

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