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IL-1β regulation of Zika-mediated adverse perinatal outcomes

IL-1β 调节 Zika 介导的不良围产期结局

基本信息

批准号：
10189676
负责人：
IRINA BURD
金额：
$ 59.74万
依托单位：
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-21 至 2023-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10189676
关键词：
Address Adverse effects Affect African American Antiviral Agents Asians Birth Brain Communication Congenital Abnormality Data Development Disease Dose Embryo Transfer Family Female Fetal Development Fetus Flaviviridae Genetic Gestational Age Immunocompetent Immunomodulators Infection Inflammasome Inflammation Inflammatory Interleukin-1 Receptors Interleukin-1 beta Intervention Kineret Kinetics Lead Mediating Microcephaly Modeling Mouse Strains Nature Neonatal Nervous System Trauma Neurologic Deficit Outcome Pathogenesis Perinatal Perinatal Brain Injury Pharmaceutical Preparations Pharmacology Placenta Pregnancy Problem behavior Production Publishing RNA Viruses Receptor Signaling Recombinants Regulation Research Proposals Role Sex Differences Signal Transduction Testing Therapeutic Intervention Thinness Translational Research Vaccines Viral Load result Viral Pathogenesis Wild Type Mouse ZIKA ZIKV infection Zika Virus adverse outcome brain abnormalities congenital infection early pregnancy experimental study fetal fetal brain injury fetal infection immunopathology improved in utero intrauterine infection intrauterine inflammation mouse model neurobehavioral neurotoxicity novel offspring perinatal medicine perinatal outcomes placental infection pregnant prenatal exposure receptor receptor binding response sex therapeutically effective tool

项目摘要

SUMMARY Zika virus (ZIKV) infection of pregnant females results in congenital infection of offspring and long-term developmental birth defects. Using an immunocompetent mouse model that we developed (published in Nature Communications), we have shown that intrauterine infection with either African, American, or Asian strains of ZIKV during early, but not late, pregnancy causes infection of the placenta and fetuses, placental inflammation, neonatal cortical thinning, and short-term neurologic deficits in offspring. More recently, we have demonstrated that placental IL-1β concentrations are elevated in ZIKV-infected dams, and we can reverse the ZIKV-associated short-term neurobehavioral sequelae in offspring by blocking IL-1 receptor signaling during the infection. We hypothesize that placental inflammation following intrauterine ZIKV infection causes perinatal neurological injury, which can then be reversed by targeting maternal IL-1β signaling. While most ZIKV interventions focus on antivirals and vaccines to limit perinatal ZIKV infection, to date no studies have considered the role of maternal and placental inflammation as a mechanism mediating long-term adverse perinatal outcomes following ZIKV infection. Specific Aim 1 will assess the mechanisms mediating elevated IL- 1β signaling in the placenta at different gestational ages following ZIKV infection, the long-term downstream effects of the placental immunopathology and placental IL-1β signaling, and whether these effects are sex- specific. In particular, Aim 1 will determine how placental inflammasome activation, IL-1β release, or engagement of the IL-1 receptor lead to adverse perinatal outcomes. Specific Aim 2 will examine the importance of maternal as opposed to fetal IL-1β signaling in the pathogenesis of perinatal brain injury following ZIKV infection. Using embryo transfer of IL-1β signaling deficient and wild type mouse strains, Aim 2 will assess whether IL-1β activity of maternal origin is critical for sex-specific fetal brain injury. Our novel translational research proposal, utilizing a ZIKV model that we developed, will have a significant impact on perinatal medicine as it will lead to a better understanding of the role of placental inflammation in the pathogenesis of fetal congenital diseases caused by infection or other inflammatory states during pregnancy.

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