title: Extrauterine growth restriction on pulmonary vascular endothelial dysfunction in adult male rats: the role of epigenetic mechanisms.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Early postnatal life is considered as a critical time window for the determination of long-term metabolic states and organ functions. Extrauterine growth restriction (EUGR) causes the development of adult-onset chronic diseases, including pulmonary hypertension. However, the effects of nutritional disadvantages during the early postnatal period on pulmonary vascular consequences in later life are not fully understood. Our study was designed to test whether epigenetics dysregulation mediates the cellular memory of this early postnatal event.
  
  
  RESULTS
  To test this hypothesis, we isolated pulmonary vascular endothelial cells by magnetic-activated cell sorting from EUGR and control rats. A postnatal insult, nutritional restriction-induced EUGR caused development of an increased pulmonary artery pressure at 9 weeks of age in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Methyl-DNA immune precipitation chip, genome-scale mapping studies to search for differentially methylated loci between control and EUGR rats, revealed significant difference in cytosine methylation between EUGR and control rats. EUGR changes the cytosine methylation at approximately 500 loci in male rats at 9 weeks of age, preceding the development of pulmonary hypertension and these represent the candidate loci for mediating the pathogenesis of pulmonary vascular disease that occurs later in life. Gene ontology analysis on differentially methylated genes showed that hypermethylated genes in EUGR are vascular development-associated genes and hypomethylated genes in EUGR are late-differentiation-associated and signal transduction genes. We validated candidate dysregulated loci with the quantitative assays of cytosine methylation and gene expressions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results demonstrate that epigenetics dysregulation is a strong mechanism for propagating the cellular memory of early postnatal events, causing changes in the expression of genes and long-term susceptibility to pulmonary hypertension, and further providing a new insight into the prevention and treatment of EUGR-related pulmonary hypertension.
authors.affiliation: aDepartment of Neonatology bDepartment of Pathology, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Liyan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Lili
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Jiakai
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Linjiang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lao
authors.forename: Weizhong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Qiongyao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Linchen
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Lizhong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Du
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000235:genetics; D002469:Cell Separation; D003596:Cytosine / Q000378:metabolism; D019175:DNA Methylation; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000503:physiopathology*; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000097:blood*; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D003596:Cytosine
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