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Al-Shuweli S, Landt E, Ellervik C, Poulsen HE, Ramar M, Dahl M, Fedulov AV. Risk of asthma in offspring of asthmatic fathers versus mothers: A population-based study of 21,000 individuals in Denmark. Respir Med 2023; 207:107116. [PMID: 36642344 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2023.107116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Revised: 01/04/2023] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Parental asthma or allergy have been linked to higher risk of asthma in a child; this occurs to a variable extent in different study populations. Moreover, it is debated whether maternal more so than paternal asthma history is a stronger predisposing factor: while in some countries/populations the maternal effect was clearly seen over paternal, in others the parental effects were equivalent, and in a few studies paternal effect dominated. Here we aimed to determine parental asthma and allergy effect in the Danish GEneral SUburban population Study (GESUS). This cross-sectional study has involved 21,362 adults aged 20+ years in the suburbs of Copenhagen. We used a combination of questionnaire approach, history of prescribed asthma medications and pulmonary function testing to determine odds ratios for maternal and paternal (and combined) asthma and allergy linked to asthma in the test subjects. We found that the input of maternal vs. paternal asthma effect was approximately equal (age and sex-adjusted OR 2.46, 95% CI: 2.15-2.81 for asthmatic mothers vs. 2.97, 2.58-3.42 for asthmatic fathers), except for the "ever asthma" age and sex-adjusted odds ratios where paternal allergy seems to have conferred a marginally greater effect (age and sex-adj. OR 1.96 for maternal allergy vs. 2.44 for paternal allergy, p = 0.03). Stratifying for gestational tobacco smoking did not affect the maternal results. We conclude that in the GESUS study parental asthma or allergy were strongly linked to higher asthma risk in offspring, without a prominent maternal or paternal effect.
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- Suzan Al-Shuweli
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Data Support, Region Zealand, Sorø, Denmark; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Endocrinology I, University Hospital Copenhagen Bispebjerg Frederiksberg Hospital, and Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Copenhagen at Hillerød, Denmark
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- Department of Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, RI, USA
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, RI, USA.
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Kumar M, Yano N, Fedulov AV. Gestational exposure to titanium dioxide, diesel exhaust, and concentrated urban air particles affects levels of specialized pro-resolving mediators in response to allergen in asthma-susceptible neonate lungs. JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. PART A 2022; 85:243-261. [PMID: 34802391 PMCID: PMC8785906 DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2021.2000906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Maternal gestational exposures to traffic and urban air pollutant particulates have been linked to increased risk and/or worsening asthma in children; however, mechanisms underlying this vertical transmission are not entirely understood. It was postulated that gestational particle exposure might affect the ability to elicit specialized proresolving mediator (SPM) responses upon allergen encounter in neonates. Lipidomic profiling of 50 SPMs was performed in lungs of neonates born to mice exposed to concentrated urban air particles (CAP), diesel exhaust particles (DEP), or less immunotoxic titanium dioxide particles (TiO2). While asthma-like phenotypes were induced with identical eosinophilia intensity across neonates of all particle-exposed mothers, levels of LXA4, HEPE and HETE isoforms, and HDoHe were only decreased by CAP and DEP only but not by TiO2. However, RvE2 and RvD1 were inhibited by all particles. In contrast, isomers of Maresin1 and Protectin D1 were variably elevated by CAP and DEP, whereas Protectin DX, PGE2, and TxB2 were increased in all groups. Only Protectin D1/DX, MaR1(n-3,DPA), 5(S),15(S)-DiHETE, PGE2, and RvE3 correlated with eosinophilia but the majority of other analytes, elevated or inhibited, showed no marked correlation with inflammation intensity. Evidence indicates that gestational particle exposure leads to both particle-specific and nonspecific effects on the SPM network.
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- Mohan Kumar
- Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital. 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI, USA. 02903
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- Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital. 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI, USA. 02903
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- Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital. 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI, USA. 02903
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Kim D, Chen Z, Zhou LF, Huang SX. Air pollutants and early origins of respiratory diseases. Chronic Dis Transl Med 2018; 4:75-94. [PMID: 29988883 PMCID: PMC6033955 DOI: 10.1016/j.cdtm.2018.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Air pollution is a global health threat and causes millions of human deaths annually. The late onset of respiratory diseases in children and adults due to prenatal or perinatal exposure to air pollutants is emerging as a critical concern in human health. Pregnancy and fetal development stages are highly susceptible to environmental exposure and tend to develop a long-term impact in later life. In this review, we briefly glance at the direct impact of outdoor and indoor air pollutants on lung diseases and pregnancy disorders. We further focus on lung complications in later life with early exposure to air pollutants. Epidemiological evidence is provided to show the association of prenatal or perinatal exposure to air pollutants with various adverse birth outcomes, such as preterm birth, lower birth weight, and lung developmental defects, which further associate with respiratory diseases and reduced lung function in children and adults. Mechanistic evidence is also discussed to support that air pollutants impact various cellular and molecular targets at early life, which link to the pathogenesis and altered immune responses related to abnormal respiratory functions and lung diseases in later life.
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- Dasom Kim
- Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45249, USA
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45249, USA
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Gregory DJ, Kobzik L, Yang Z, McGuire CC, Fedulov AV. Transgenerational transmission of asthma risk after exposure to environmental particles during pregnancy. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2017; 313:L395-L405. [PMID: 28495853 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00035.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2017] [Revised: 04/11/2017] [Accepted: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Exposure to environmental particles during pregnancy increases asthma susceptibility of the offspring. We tested the hypothesis that this transmission continues to F2 and F3 generations and occurs via epigenetic mechanisms. We compared allergic susceptibility of three generations of BALB/c offspring after a single maternal exposure during pregnancy to diesel exhaust particles or concentrated urban air particles. After pregnant dams received intranasal instillations of particle suspensions or control, their F1, F2, and F3 offspring were tested in a low-dose ovalbumin protocol for sensitivity to allergic asthma. We found that the elevated susceptibility after maternal exposure to particles during pregnancy persists into F2 and, with lesser magnitude, into F3 generations. This was evident from elevated eosinophil counts in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, histopathological changes of allergic airway disease, and increased BAL levels of IL-5 and IL-13. We have previously shown that dendritic cells (DCs) can mediate transmission of risk upon adoptive transfer. Therefore, we used an enhanced reduced representation bisulfite sequencing protocol to quantify DNA methylation in DCs from each generation. Distinct methylation changes were identified in F1, F2, and F3 DCs. The subset of altered loci shared across the three generations were not linked to known allergy genes or pathways but included a number of genes linked to chromatin modification, suggesting potential interaction with other epigenetic mechanisms (e.g., histone modifications). The data indicate that pregnancy airway exposure to diesel exhaust particles (DEP) triggers a transgenerationally transmitted asthma susceptibility and suggests a mechanistic role for epigenetic alterations in DCs in this process.
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- David J Gregory
- Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; and.,Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; and
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- Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; and
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- Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; and.,Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; and .,Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Krauss-Etschmann S, Meyer KF, Dehmel S, Hylkema MN. Inter- and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: evidence in asthma and COPD? Clin Epigenetics 2015; 7:53. [PMID: 26052354 PMCID: PMC4456695 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-015-0085-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Evidence is now emerging that early life environment can have lifelong effects on metabolic, cardiovascular, and pulmonary function in offspring, a concept also known as fetal or developmental programming. In mammals, developmental programming is thought to occur mainly via epigenetic mechanisms, which include DNA methylation, histone modifications, and expression of non-coding RNAs. The effects of developmental programming can be induced by the intrauterine environment, leading to intergenerational epigenetic effects from one generation to the next. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance may be considered when developmental programming is transmitted across generations that were not exposed to the initial environment which triggered the change. So far, inter- and transgenerational programming has been mainly described for cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk. In this review, we discuss available evidence that epigenetic inheritance also occurs in respiratory diseases, using asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as examples. While multiple epidemiological as well as animal studies demonstrate effects of 'toxic' intrauterine exposure on various asthma-related phenotypes in the offspring, only few studies link epigenetic marks to the observed phenotypes. As epigenetic marks may distinguish individuals most at risk of later disease at early age, it will enable early intervention strategies to reduce such risks. To achieve this goal further, well designed experimental and human studies are needed.
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- Susanne Krauss-Etschmann
- />Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Helmholtz Center Munich and Children’s Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians University, Max-Lebsche-Platz 31, 81377 Munich, Germany
- />Priority Area Asthma & Allergy, Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Research Center Borstel and Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Airway Research Center North, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Parkallee 1-40, Borstel, Germany
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- />Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, Groningen, The Netherlands
- />University of Groningen, GRIAC Research Institute, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- />Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Helmholtz Center Munich and Children’s Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians University, Max-Lebsche-Platz 31, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- />Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, Groningen, The Netherlands
- />University of Groningen, GRIAC Research Institute, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Auten RL, Gilmour MI, Krantz QT, Potts EN, Mason SN, Foster WM. Maternal diesel inhalation increases airway hyperreactivity in ozone-exposed offspring. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2011; 46:454-60. [PMID: 22052876 PMCID: PMC3359947 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2011-0256oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Air pollutant exposure is linked with childhood asthma incidence and exacerbations, and maternal exposure to airborne pollutants during pregnancy increases airway hyperreactivity (AHR) in offspring. To determine if exposure to diesel exhaust (DE) during pregnancy worsened postnatal ozone-induced AHR, timed pregnant C57BL/6 mice were exposed to DE (0.5 or 2.0 mg/m(3)) 4 hours daily from Gestation Day 9-17, or received twice-weekly oropharyngeal aspirations of the collected DE particles (DEPs). Placentas and fetal lungs were harvested on Gestation Day 18 for cytokine analysis. In other litters, pups born to dams exposed to air or DE, or to dams treated with aspirated diesel particles, were exposed to filtered air or 1 ppm ozone beginning the day after birth, for 3 hours per day, 3 days per week for 4 weeks. Additional pups were monitored after a 4-week recovery period. Diesel inhalation or aspiration during pregnancy increased levels of placental and fetal lung cytokines. There were no significant effects on airway leukocytes, but prenatal diesel augmented ozone-induced elevations of bronchoalveolar lavage cytokines at 4 weeks. Mice born to the high-concentration diesel-exposed dams had worse ozone-induced AHR, which persisted in the 4-week recovery animals. Prenatal diesel exposure combined with postnatal ozone exposure also worsened secondary alveolar crest development. We conclude that maternal inhalation of DE in pregnancy provokes a fetal inflammatory response that, combined with postnatal ozone exposure, impairs alveolar development, and causes a more severe and long-lasting AHR to ozone exposure.
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- Richard L Auten
- Departments of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Allina J, Grabowski J, Doherty-Lyons S, Fiel MI, Jackson CE, Zelikoff JT, Odin JA. Maternal allergy acts synergistically with cigarette smoke exposure during pregnancy to induce hepatic fibrosis in adult male offspring. J Immunotoxicol 2011; 8:258-64. [PMID: 21718087 DOI: 10.3109/1547691x.2011.589412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Maternal environmental exposures during pregnancy are known to affect disease onset in adult offspring. For example, maternal asthma exacerbations during pregnancy can worsen adult asthma in the offspring. Cigarette smoking during pregnancy is associated with future onset of cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes. However, little is known about the effect of maternal environmental exposures on offspring susceptibility to liver disease. This pilot study examined the long-term effect of maternal allergen challenge and/or cigarette smoking during pregnancy on hepatic inflammation and fibrosis in adult mouse offspring. Ovalbumin (OVA) or phosphate-buffered saline (PBS)-sensitized/challenged CD-1 dams were exposed to mainstream cigarette smoke (MCS) or filtered air from gestational day 4 until parturition. Eight weeks postnatally, offspring were sacrificed for comparison of hepatic histology and mRNA expression. Adult male offspring of OVA-sensitized/challenged dams exposed to MCS (OSM) displayed significantly increased liver fibrosis (9.2% collagen content vs. <4% for all other treatment groups). These mice also had 1.8-fold greater collagen 1A1 mRNA levels. From the results here, we concluded that maternal allergen challenge in combination with cigarette smoke exposure during pregnancy may be an important risk factor for liver disease in adult male offspring.
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- Jorge Allina
- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY, USA
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Auten RL, Potts EN, Mason SN, Fischer B, Huang Y, Foster WM. Maternal exposure to particulate matter increases postnatal ozone-induced airway hyperreactivity in juvenile mice. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009; 180:1218-26. [PMID: 19762564 PMCID: PMC2796733 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200901-0116oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2009] [Accepted: 09/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Epidemiologic studies implicate air pollutant exposure during pregnancy as a risk factor for wheezing in offspring. Ozone exposure is linked to exacerbations of wheezing in children. OBJECTIVES To determine if maternal pulmonary exposure to traffic-related particles during pregnancy augments ozone-induced airway hyperresponsiveness in offspring. METHODS C57BL6 time-mated mice were given NIST SRM#1648 (particulate matter [PM]) 0.48 mg, saline vehicle, or no treatment by tracheal insufflation twice weekly for 3 weeks. PM exposure augmented maternal lung inflammation and placental TNF-alpha, Keratinocyte-derived cytokine (KC), and IL-6 (measured at gestation Day 18). After parturition, dams and litters were exposed to air or ozone 1 ppm 3 h/d, every other day, thrice weekly for 4 weeks. Respiratory system resistance in pups was measured at baseline and after administration of nebulized methacholine. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Ozone increased airway hyperresponsiveness, but the increase was greatest in pups born to PM-treated dams. Whole-lung TNF-alpha, IL-1beta, KC, IL-6, and MCP-1 were increased in ozone-treated pups, with the greatest increase in pups born to dams given PM. Airway epithelial mucous metaplasia estimated by periodic acid-Schiff Alcian blue staining was increased in ozone-exposed pups born to PM-treated dams. Alveolar development, determined by morphometry, and airway smooth muscle bulk, estimated using alpha-actin histochemistry, were unaffected by prenatal or postnatal treatment. CONCLUSIONS Maternal pulmonary exposure to PM during pregnancy augments placental cytokine expression and postnatal ozone-induced pulmonary inflammatory cytokine responses and ozone-induced airway hyperresponsiveness without altering airway structure.
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- Richard L Auten
- Neonatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
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