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In utero position matters for littermate cell transfer in mice: an additional and confounding source with maternal microchimerism
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In utero position matters for littermate cell transfer in mice: an additional and confounding source with maternal microchimerism
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Journal Article
In utero position matters for littermate cell transfer in mice: an additional and confounding source with maternal microchimerism
2023
Overview
Feto-maternal cell transfer during pregnancy is called microchimerism (Mc). Its persistence in respective hosts is increasingly studied as to its potential role in immune tolerance, autoimmunity, cancer, and degenerative diseases. Murine models with transgenic reporter genes, heterozygously carried by the mother, allow maternal Mc tracking in wild-type (WT) offspring. However, as gestation in mice is multi-embryonic, an exchange of cells between fetuses carrying the same reporter gene as their mother and negative WT littermate, named littermate Mc (LMc), can occur and be confounded with the maternal source. We propose here to evaluate LMc contribution in mice.
To avoid the maternal confounding source of Mc, transgenic males, heterozygous for a reporter gene, here, the human leukocyte antigen DRB1*04 (DR4
), were crossed with WT females (DR4
). DR4
LMc was specifically quantified by HLA-DR4 quantitative PCR, i)
in main organs from 15 DR4
fetuses from three litters of 11, nine, and five; and ii) after birth in two litters of eight pups: in two DR4
stillborns and four DR4
adult mice.
At embryonic stages, DR4
fetuses having one or two nearby DR4
littermates in the same uterine horn were almost seven times more frequently positive for DR4- microchimerism in their organs (
= 0.01) and had quantitatively more LMc (
= 0.009) than those without nearby DR4
littermates. Furthermore, LMc persists at birth and into adulthood with interindividual heterogeneity.
This study identifies heterogeneity for LMc acquisition according to
position and different interpretation of previously published results on maternal Mc in mice.
