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Mice Born to Mothers with Gravida Traumatic Brain Injury Have Distorted Brain Circuitry and Altered Immune Responses
- Source :
- J Neurotrauma
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2021.
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Abstract
- Intimate partner violence (IPV) increases risk of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Physical assaults increase in frequency and intensity during pregnancy. The consequences of TBI during pregnancy (gravida TBI; gTBI) on offspring development is unknown, for which stress and inflammation during pregnancy worsen fetal developmental outcomes. We hypothesized that gTBI would lead to increased anxiety- and depression-related behavior, altered inflammatory responses and gut pathology, and distorted brain circuitry in mixed-sex offspring compared to mice born to control mothers. Pregnant dams received either diffuse TBI or sham injury (control) 12 days post-coitum. We found that male gTBI offspring were principal drivers of the gTBI effects on health, physiology, and behavior. For example, male, but not female, gTBI offspring weighed significantly less at weaning compared to male control offspring. At post-natal day (PND) 28, gTBI offspring had significantly weaker intralaminar connectivity onto layer 5 pre-frontal pyramidal neurons compared to control offspring. Neurological performance on anxiety-like behaviors was decreased, with only marginal differences in depressive-like behaviors, for gTBI offspring compared to control offspring. At PND42 and PND58, circulating neutrophil and monocyte populations were significantly smaller in gTBI male offspring than control male offspring. In response to a subsequent inflammatory challenge at PND75, gTBI offspring had significantly smaller circulating neutrophil populations than control offspring. Anxiety-like behaviors persisted during the immune challenge in gTBI offspring. However, spleen immune response and gut histology showed no significant differences between groups. The results compel further studies to determine the full extent of gTBI on fetal and maternal outcomes.
- Subjects :
- Male
030506 rehabilitation
Traumatic brain injury
Physiology
Inflammation
Anxiety
Leukocyte Count
Mice
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Immune system
Pregnancy
Brain Injuries, Traumatic
Neural Pathways
parasitic diseases
medicine
Animals
Sex Characteristics
Depression
business.industry
Pyramidal Cells
Brain
Cognition
Original Articles
social sciences
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
Pregnancy Complications
nervous system
Health
Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
Domestic violence
Female
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
0305 other medical science
business
Spleen
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Brain circuitry
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15579042 and 08977151
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Neurotrauma
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....574ba375ec150c9df9c457bfe5bf89b4