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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced intra-uterine fetal death (IUFD) in mice is principally due to maternal cause but not fetal sensitivity to LPS.

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:The present study deals with whether lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced intra-uterine fetal death (IUFD) is related to LPS-susceptibility of either mother or fetus and how LPS or LPS-induced TNF causes IUFD. LPS-susceptible C3H/HeN or -hypo-susceptible C3H/HeJ pregnant mice and the mice mated reciprocally with these mice were used on days 14 to 16 of gestation for experiments. All of fetuses in pregnant C3H/HeN mice mated with either C3H/HeN males [HeN(HeN)] or C3H/HeJ males [HeN(HeJ)] were killed within 24 hr when injected intravenously (i.v.) with 50 or 100 microg of LPS. On the other hand, the majority of fetuses in C3H/HeJ females mated with either C3H/HeJ males [HeJ(HeJ)] or C3H/HeN males [HeJ(HeN)] survived when injected i.v. with even 400 microg of LPS. These findings indicate that LPS-induced IUFD depends on the maternal LPS-responsiveness. LPS injected into mothers could pass through placenta to fetuses, since an injection with 125I-labeled LPS or IgG into pregnant mice resulted in considerable levels of radioactivity in fetuses as well as placenta. Cultured peritoneal macrophages derived from F1 mice of HeJ(HeN) or HeN(HeJ) mice, produced nitric oxide (NO) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in response to LPS, although the levels of NO and TNF were lower in comparison with those of C3H/HeN macrophage cultures, suggesting a possibility that the fetus as well as F1 cells might be responsible to LPS. LPS-induced IUFD was not blocked by treatment with anti-TNF antibody which inhibited LPS-induced TNF production in pregnant females, although an injection of recombinant TNFalpha instead of LPS could induce IUFD, suggesting that the cause of IUFD cannot be attributed to mother-derived TNF alone. The roles of LPS passed through placenta and LPS-induced mediators on IUFD were discussed.

journal_name

Microbiol Immunol

journal_title

Microbiology and immunology

authors

Kohmura Y,Kirikae T,Kirikae F,Nakano M,Sato I

doi

10.1111/j.1348-0421.2000.tb02581.x

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pub_date

2000-01-01 00:00:00

pages

897-904

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eissn

0385-5600

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1348-0421

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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced intra-uterine fetal death (IUFD) in mice is principally due to maternal cause but not fetal sensitivity to LPS.