Mitochondrial Targeted Therapies to Prevent Maternal Diabetes-Induced Congenital Heart Defects.
Mitochondrial Targeted Therapies to Prevent Maternal Diabetes-Induced Congenital Heart Defects.
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线粒体靶向治疗可预防孕产妇糖尿病引起的先天性心脏缺陷。
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10.1016/j.jacbts.2024.01.016
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2024
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Reddy,Sushma
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Reddy,Sushma
The United States has the highest infant mortality rate among high-income countries at 5.4% per 1,000 live births. Birth defects are a major cause of infant mortality. Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common type of birth defect and accounts for about 40% of birth defect–related mortalities in the United States and worldwide. 1 Most of these deaths occur during infancy, and this has not changed significantly in the past 2 decades despite the dramatic improvements seen in pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery. At a systemic level, racial/ethnic disparities, access to quality care, insurance status, and socioeconomic status all play a key role in CHD-related deaths. Reducing the incidence of CHDs should therefore be factored into the overall solutions to reduce CHD-related mortality. The etiology of CHDs is likely multifactorial, with genetic (< 10%) and noninherited risk factors. Environmental teratogens such as certain medications (thalidomide, isotretinoin, and lithium), viral infections such as maternal rubella, maternal exposure to smoking and alcohol, maternal malnutrition including folic acid and vitamin B9 deficiency, and chronic diseases such as maternal diabetes and obesity contribute to the noninherited risk for developing CHDs and pose a potential solution to decreasing the incidence of CHDs. 2 Maternal pregestational diabetes mellitus is the only relatively prevalent population risk factor for CHDs, associated with a profoundly increased risk for CHDs in the fetus (adjusted relative risk: 4.0; 95% CI: 3.51-4.53). 3 Women with diabetes-related complications have a higher CHD risk than women with diabetes without complications (relative risk: 7.62 vs 3.49). Despite improvements in prenatal care and optimal diabetes control, the incidence of pregestational diabetes-related CHDs has not changed in many decades, highlighting the need to better understand the causal mechanisms.Experimental data point to hyperglycemia during early embryogenesis altering gene expression in key cellular components of the developing heart, such as the outflow tracts. The mechanisms underlying altered gene expression are only now being unraveled. Diabetic animal models demonstrate the downregulation of genes involved in metabolism, development, and proliferation of cardiac neural crest cells. This down-regulation of genes is mediated by hyperglycemia-induced oxidative stress, which then impairs paired box 3–mediated cardiac neural crest migration for outflow tract septation. In addition to hyperglycemia-induced oxidative stress, major reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging enzymes and antioxidant enzyme levels are also decreased in maternal diabetes, leading to cellular stress and damage during early embryogenesis, suggesting that the teratogenicity of glucose is mediated, in part, by oxidative stress. As mitochondria are the largest source and targets of oxidative stress, several groups have investigated the role of mitochondria in embryonic heart development. Balanced mitochondrial dynamics during embryonic development are critical to sustain the changes in heart metabolism, especially in energy-demanding cells such as cardiomyocytes. The mitochondrial fusion factors, mitofusin 2 (MFN2) and optic atrophy are essential for the differentiation