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Gestational exposure to unmethylated CpG oligonucleotides dysregulates placental molecular clock network and fetoplacental growth dynamics, and disrupts maternal blood pressure circadian rhythms in rats

View ORCID ProfileJessica L. Bradshaw, View ORCID ProfileSpencer C. Cushen, View ORCID ProfileContessa A. Ricci, View ORCID ProfileSelina M. Tucker, View ORCID ProfileJennifer J. Gardner, Joel T. Little, View ORCID ProfileOluwatobiloba Osikoya, View ORCID ProfileStyliani Goulopoulou
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.14.532649
Jessica L. Bradshaw
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
2Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Spencer C. Cushen
2Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
3Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Contessa A. Ricci
2Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Selina M. Tucker
2Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Jennifer J. Gardner
2Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Joel T. Little
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Oluwatobiloba Osikoya
2Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Styliani Goulopoulou
4Lawrence D. Longo, MD Center for Perinatal Biology, Department of Basic Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA
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Bacterial infections and impaired mitochondrial DNA dynamics are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Unmethylated cytosine-guanine dinucleotide (CpG) motifs are common in bacterial and mitochondrial DNA and act as potent immunostimulators. Here, we tested the hypothesis that exposure to CpG oligonucleotides (ODN) during pregnancy would disrupt blood pressure circadian rhythms and the placental molecular clock machinery, mediating aberrant fetoplacental growth dynamics. Rats were repeatedly treated with CpG ODN in the 3rd trimester (gestational day, GD, 14, 16, 18) and euthanized on GD20 (near term) or with a single dose of CpG ODN and euthanized 4 hours after treatment on GD14. Hemodynamic circadian rhythms were analyzed via Lomb-Scargle periodogram analysis on 24-h raw data collected continuously via radiotelemetry. A p-value ≥ 0.05 indicates the absence of a circadian rhythm. Following the first treatment with CpG ODN, maternal systolic and diastolic blood pressure circadian rhythms were lost (p ≥ 0.05). Blood pressure circadian rhythm was restored by GD16 and remained unaffected after the second treatment with CpG ODN (p < 0.0001). Diastolic blood pressure circadian rhythm was again lost after the last treatment on GD18 (p ≥ 0.05). CpG ODN increased placental expression of Per2 and Per3 and Tnfα (p ≤ 0.05) and affected fetoplacental growth dynamics, such as reduced fetal and placental weights were disproportionately associated with increases in the number of resorptions in ODN-treated dams compared to controls. In conclusion, gestational exposure to unmethylated CpG DNA dysregulates placental molecular clock network and fetoplacental growth dynamics and disrupts blood pressure circadian rhythms.

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Gestational exposure to unmethylated CpG oligonucleotides dysregulates placental molecular clock network and fetoplacental growth dynamics, and disrupts maternal blood pressure circadian rhythms in rats
Jessica L. Bradshaw, Spencer C. Cushen, Contessa A. Ricci, Selina M. Tucker, Jennifer J. Gardner, Joel T. Little, Oluwatobiloba Osikoya, Styliani Goulopoulou
bioRxiv 2023.03.14.532649; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.14.532649
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Gestational exposure to unmethylated CpG oligonucleotides dysregulates placental molecular clock network and fetoplacental growth dynamics, and disrupts maternal blood pressure circadian rhythms in rats
Jessica L. Bradshaw, Spencer C. Cushen, Contessa A. Ricci, Selina M. Tucker, Jennifer J. Gardner, Joel T. Little, Oluwatobiloba Osikoya, Styliani Goulopoulou
bioRxiv 2023.03.14.532649; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.14.532649

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