Oxytocin antagonism prevents pregnancy-associated aortic dissection in a mouse model of Marfan syndrome.

Abstract:

:Women with Marfan syndrome (MFS) are at high risk for pregnancy-associated aortic dissection. Pathogenic models that singularly invoke hemodynamic stress are difficult to reconcile with predominant postnatal occurrence of aortic tear, often occurring weeks to months after delivery. In consideration of events that peak at term, are sustained after delivery, and might synergize with previously defined signaling pathways implicated in aneurysm progression, we examined the hormone oxytocin, which initiates uterine contraction and milk letdown for the duration of lactation through phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK). In a mouse model of MFS that shows highly penetrant postnatal aortic dissection, risk was strongly attenuated by preventing lactation or use of an oxytocin receptor antagonist. Survival correlated inversely with the extent of ERK activation in the aortic wall, and strong protection was observed upon attenuation of ERK phosphorylation using an inhibitor of ERK kinase (MEK) or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medication hydralazine, offering potential therapeutic strategies for pregnancy-associated vascular catastrophe in the setting of MFS.

journal_name

Sci Transl Med

authors

Habashi JP,MacFarlane EG,Bagirzadeh R,Bowen C,Huso N,Chen Y,Bedja D,Creamer TJ,Rykiel G,Manning M,Huso D,Dietz HC

doi

10.1126/scitranslmed.aat4822

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-05-01 00:00:00

issue

490

eissn

1946-6234

issn

1946-6242

pii

11/490/eaat4822

journal_volume

11

pub_type

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