Transgenerational genetic effects of exposure to lipopolysaccharides in late pregnancy on age-related cognitive changes in offspring
10.19405/j.cnki.issn1000-1492.2024.10.002
- VernacularTitle:孕晚期暴露脂多糖对后代衰老相关认知改变的跨代遗传效应
- Author:
Zhezhe ZHANG
1
;
Chunyang SHI
;
Guihai CHEN
;
Fang WANG
Author Information
1. 安徽医科大学第二附属医院老年医学科,合肥 230601
- Keywords:
aging;
learning;
memory;
lipopolysaccharides;
transgenerational genetic effects;
mice
- From:
Acta Universitatis Medicinalis Anhui
2024;59(10):1696-1705
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the effects of exposure to lipopolysaccharides in late pregnancy on age-related cognitive changes in offspring of mice,and to investigate whether there is a gender specific genetic effect.Methods Institute of cancer research(ICR)CD-1 mice during gestational days 15-17 were injected with lipopolysaccha-ride daily(LPS group,50 μg/kg),or equal volume of normal saline(CON group).At the age of 2 months after their delivery,LPS treated offspring mice(F1-LPS,male and female)were randomly selected and hybridized with age-matched wild-type CD-1 mice.F1-LPS males and females with different littermates,and F1-CON males and fe-males were hybridized to obtain F2 generations of different lineages.Similarly,F2-LPS mice were mated with wild-type mice to conceive the F3 generation.At the age of 3 and 18 months old,F1,F2,and F3 mice(n=8 in each group)were randomly selected to complete the Morris maze experiment in order to test their cognitive abilities.Re-sults Compared with 3-month-old CON mice,18-month-old CON mice showed poorer learning and memory abili-ties,especially in females.For Fl generation,the learning and memory abilities of the 3-month-old and 18-month-old F1-LPS mice were inferior to those of the same aged CON mice.For F2 generation,the 3-month-old F2-LPS-parental mice had poorer learning and memory compared to the same aged CON mice,while the F2-LPS-paternal mice only had poorer memory compared to the same aged CON group.The learning and memory abilities of 18-month-old F2-LPS paternal and F2-LPS-parental mice were inferior to those of the same aged CON mice.The learn-ing and memory abilities of F2-LPS maternal male mice were inferior to those of CON male mice,and the memory abilities of F2-LPS maternal mice were stronger than those of F2-LPS-parental mice.With regards to the F3 genera-tion,the memory of the 3-month-old F3-LPS-parental mice was poorer than that of the same aged CON mice.The learning and memory abilities of F3-LPS paternal and F3-LPS-parental mice at 18 months old were inferior to those of CON mice of the same age.The 18-month-old F3-LPS maternal and paternal male mice had better memory than F3-LPS-parental male mice.Conclusion Exposure to lipopolysaccharides in late pregnancy can accelerate age-re-lated cognitive decline in offspring mice,and it has a cross generational genetic effect and gender differences,mainly in paternal inheritance.
