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Sex-differences in LPS-induced neonatal lung injury.

ABSTRACT: Being of the male sex has been identified as a risk factor for multiple morbidities associated with preterm birth, including bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Exposure to inflammatory stress is a well-recognized risk factor for developing BPD. Whether there is a sex difference in pulmonary innate immune TLR4 signaling, lung injury and subsequent abnormal lung development is unknown. Neonatal (P0) male and female mice (ICR) were exposed to systemic LPS (5?mg/kg, IP) and innate immune signaling, and the transcriptional response were assessed (1 and 5?hours), along with lung development (P7). Male and female mice demonstrated a similar degree of impaired lung development with decreased radial alveolar counts, increased surface area, increased airspace area and increased mean linear intercept. We found no differences between male and female mice in the baseline pulmonary expression of key components of TLR4-NF?B signaling, or in the LPS-induced pulmonary expression of key mediators of neonatal lung injury. Finally, we found no difference in the kinetics of LPS-induced pulmonary NF?B activation between male and female mice. Together, these data support the conclusion that the innate immune response to early postnatal LPS exposure and resulting pulmonary sequelae is similar in male and female mice.

SUBMITTER: Nguyen L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6560218 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Sex-differences in LPS-induced neonatal lung injury.

Nguyen Leanna L Castro Odalis O De Dios Robyn R Sandoval Jeryl J McKenna Sarah S Wright Clyde J CJ

Scientific reports 20190611 1

Being of the male sex has been identified as a risk factor for multiple morbidities associated with preterm birth, including bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Exposure to inflammatory stress is a well-recognized risk factor for developing BPD. Whether there is a sex difference in pulmonary innate immune TLR4 signaling, lung injury and subsequent abnormal lung development is unknown. Neonatal (P0) male and female mice (ICR) were exposed to systemic LPS (5 mg/kg, IP) and innate immune signaling, a ...[more]

PMID: 31186497

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Sex-differences in LPS-induced neonatal lung injury.

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Sex-differences in LPS-induced neonatal lung injury.

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