Vitamin D depletion does not affect key aspects of the preeclamptic phenotype in a transgenic rodent model for preeclampsia

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Vitamin D depletion does not affect key aspects of the preeclamptic phenotype in a transgenic rodent model for preeclampsia
Creators Name:	Andersen, L.B. and Golic, M. and Przybyl, L. and Sorensen, G.L. and Jørgensen, J.S. and Fruekilde, P. and von Versen-Höynck, F. and Herse, F. and Højskov, C.S. and Dechend, R. and Christesen, H.T. and Haase, N.
Abstract:	Maternal vitamin D deficiency is proposed as a risk factor for preeclampsia in humans. We tested the hypothesis that vitamin D depletion aggravates and high supplementation ameliorates the preeclampsia phenotype in an established transgenic rat model of human renin-angiotensin system-mediated preeclampsia. Adult rat dams, transgenic for human angiotensinogen (hAGT) and mated with male rats transgenic for human renin (hREN), were fed either vitamin D-depleted chow (VDd) or enriched chow (VDh) 2 weeks before mating and during pregnancy. Mean blood pressure was recorded by tail-cuff, and 24-hour urine samples were collected in metabolic cages at days 6 and 18 of gestation. Rats were sacrificed at day 21 of gestation. Depleted dams (VDd) had negligible serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D2+3 levels (mean ± SEM; 2.95 +/- 0.45 nmol/l vs. VDh 26.20 +/- 2.88 nmol/l, P = .01), but in both groups, levels of 1,25(OH)2D3 remained below detection level of 25 pmol/l. Dietary vitamin D depletion did not aggravate hypertension (mean +/- SEM BP, day 20 of gestation: 151.38 +/- 5.65 mmHg VDd vs. 152.00 +/- 4.10 mmHg VDh) or proteinuria. Fetal anthropometrics were similar between the groups, whereas VDd displayed lower placental:fetal weight ratios (0.15 vs. 0.16 g/g, P = .01) and increased sFlt-1/PlGF ratio. Expression of hREN was lower in placenta of VDd dams (0.82 +/- 0.44 AU vs. 1.52 +/- 0.15 AU, P = .04). Expression of key vitamin D metabolizing enzymes was unchanged. Dietary vitamin D intervention did not alter key aspects of the preeclampsia phenotype using the transgenic rodent model of human renin-angiotensin system-mediated pre-eclampsia, plausibly due to altered vitamin D metabolism or excretion in the transgenic rats.
Keywords:	Renin-Angiotensin System, Transgenic Rodents, Animals, Rats
Source:	Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
ISSN:	1933-1711
Publisher:	Elsevier
Volume:	10
Number:	7
Page Range:	597-607.e1
Date:	July 2016
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jash.2016.05.008
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