Maternal exposure to soy diet reduces atheroma in hyperlipidemic F1 offspring mice by promoting macrophage and T cell anti-inflammatory responses

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Maternal hypercholesterolemia has been implicated in earlier onset of atherosclerotic lesions in neonatal offspring. In this study, we investigated whether maternal exposure to soy protein isolate (SPI) diet attenuated the progression of atherosclerosis in F1 offspring.

METHOD: Pregnant apolipoprotein E knockout (Apoe-/-) female mice were fed SPI diet until postnatal day 21 (PND21) of the offspring (SPI-offspring). SPI-offspring were switched at PND21 to casein (CAS) diet until PND140. Mice fed CAS throughout their lifetime (gestation to adulthood) were used as controls (CAS-offspring).

RESULTS: Atherosclerotic lesions in the aortic sinuses were reduced in SPI-offspring compared with CAS-offspring. Total serum cholesterol levels in CAS-offspring or dams were comparable to levels in their SPI-counterparts, suggesting that alternative mechanisms contributed to the athero-protective effect of maternal SPI diet. Aortic VCAM-1, MCP-1, and TNF-α mRNA and protein expression, and expression of macrophage pro-inflammatory cytokines was reduced in SPI-offspring. Interestingly, CD4+ T cells from SPI-offspring showed reduced IFN-γ expression (Th1), while the expression of IL-10 (Th2/Treg), and IL-13 (Th2) was increased. DNA methylation analyses revealed that anti-inflammatory T cell-associated Gata3 and Il13 promoter regions were hypomethylated in SPI-offspring. These findings suggest that anti-inflammatory macrophage and T cell response may have contributed to the athero-protective effect in SPI-offspring.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrate that gestational and lactational soy diet exposure inhibits susceptibility to atherosclerotic lesion formation by promoting anti-inflammatory responses by macrophages and T cells.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:313

Enthalten in:

Atherosclerosis - 313(2020) vom: 15. Nov., Seite 26-34

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Burris, Ramona L [VerfasserIn]
Vick, Sarah C [VerfasserIn]
Popovic, Branimir [VerfasserIn]
Fraungruber, Pamelia E [VerfasserIn]
Nagarajan, Shanmugam [VerfasserIn]

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Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Atherosclerosis
Gestation
Inflammation
Journal Article
Maternal hypercholesterolemia
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Soy protein

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Date Completed 23.06.2021

Date Revised 02.11.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2020.09.018

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316022675