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Our previous study has demonstrated that dietary arginine supplementation during early pregnancy enhanced embryo implantation in rats. However, the mechanism was not clear. The objective of this study was to determine the mechanism that arginine enhanced embryo implantation during early pregnancy. Rats were fed the basal diets supplemented with 1.3% (wt:wt) l-arginine–HCl or 2.2% (wt:wt) l-alanine (isonitrogenous control) once pregnancy. On d4 of pregnancy, rats were given intrauterine injection of l-NG-nitro arginine methyl ester (l-NAME, nitric oxide synthase inhibitor), α-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO, polyamine synthesis inhibitor), wortmannin (PI3K inhibitor), or rapamycin (mTOR inhibitor). On d7 of pregnancy, rats were killed. Intrauterine injection of l-NAME decreased the implantation sites, while dietary arginine supplementation increased the implantation sites. Intrauterine injection of DFMO decreased the pregnancy rate, which was reversed by dietary arginine supplementation. Intrauterine injection of rapamycin or wortmannin inhibited embryo implantation. However, dietary arginine supplementation did not reverse this inhibition. Western blot analysis revealed that the expression of uterine p-PKB and p-S6K1 was greater in rats fed the arginine-supplemented diet in the presence of l-NAME treatment compared with rats fed the control diet. In the presence of DFMO treatment, the expression of uterine iNOS and eNOS was significantly enhanced in the arginine group compared with the control group. Similarly, intrauterine injection of wortmannin or rapamycin decreased the expression of uterine iNOS and eNOS, which was enhanced by dietary arginine supplementation. These data indicated that dietary arginine supplementation during early pregnancy could enhance embryo implantation through stimulation of PI3K/PKB/mTOR/NO signaling pathway.
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Uterine receptivity to implantation of blastocysts in mammals includes hatching from zona pellucida, precontact with uterine luminal (LE) and superficial glandular (sGE) epithelia and orientation of blastocyst, apposition between trophectoderm and uterine LE and sGE, adhesion of trophectoderm to uterine LE/sGE, and, in some species, limited or extensive invasion into the endometrial stroma and induction of decidualization of stromal cells. These peri-implantation events are prerequisites for pregnancy recognition signaling, implantation, and placentation required for fetal–placental growth and development through the remainder of pregnancy. Although there is a range of strategies for implantation in mammals, a common feature is the requirement for progesterone (P4) to downregulate expression of its receptors in uterine epithelia and P4 prior to implantation events. P4 then mediates its effects via growth factors expressed by stromal cells in most species; however, uterine luminal epithelium may express a growth factor in response to P4 and/or estrogens in species with a true epitheliochorial placenta. There is also compelling evidence that uterine receptivity to implantation involves temporal and cell-specific expression of interferon (IFN)-stimulated genes that may be induced directly by an IFN or induced by P4 and stimulated by an IFN. These genes have many roles including nutrient transport, cellular remodeling, angiogenesis and relaxation of vascular tissues, cell proliferation and migration, establishment of an antiviral state, and protection of conceptus tissues from challenges by the maternal immune cells.
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Maternal malnutrition gives rise to both short- and long-term consequences for the survival and health of the offspring. As the intermediary between mother and fetus, the placenta has the potential to interpret environmental signals, such as nutrient availability, and adapt to support fetal growth and development. While this potential is present, it is clear that at times placental adaptation fails to occur resulting in poor pregnancy outcomes. This review will focus on placental responses to maternal undernutrition related to changes in placental vascularization and hemodynamics and placental nutrient transport systems across species. While much of the available literature describes placental responses that result in poor fetal outcomes, novel models have been developed to utilize the inherent variation in fetal weight when dams are nutrient restricted to identify placental adaptations that result in normal-weight offspring. Detailed analyses of the spectrum of placental responses to maternal malnutrition point to alternations in placental histoarchitectural and vascular development, amino acid and lipid transport mechanisms, and modulation of immune-related factors. Dietary supplementation with selected nutrients, such as arginine, has the potential to improve placental growth and function through a variety of mechanisms including stimulating cell proliferation, protein synthesis, angiogenesis, vasodilation, and gene regulation. Improved understanding of placental responses to environmental cues is necessary to develop diagnostic and intervention strategies to improve pregnancy outcomes.
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The trophectoderm of the elongating conceptuses of cattle, sheep, and pigs secrete high amounts of interferons that increase or induce the expression of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) in the endometrium. Research concerning ISGs, performed from 1995 through 2023, is reviewed in this manuscript.
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Expression of the classical interferon (IFN) stimulated genes (ISGs) increases in the endometrial stroma and glandular epithelium (GE) through activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) signaling in response to the secretion of IFN tau (IFNT) and IFN gamma (IFNG) by the conceptuses of ruminants, including cattle and sheep, and pigs, respectively. The first of the classical ISGs to be characterized was ISG15 in cattle. Classical ISGs are not expressed by the endometrial luminal epithelium (LE) due to the expression of interferon regulatory factor 2 (IRF2) in the LE that prevents the expression of ISGs in the LE. Classical ISG expression in the endometrium serves as a reliable indicator of conceptus health and elongation in cattle. There are also nonclassical ISGs that are upregulated in endometrial LE in response to progesterone (P4) that are further stimulated by IFNT in sheep, the intracellular signaling pathway responsible for IFN effects on expression is unknown. ISGs are also upregulated in extrauterine tissues including CL and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). The expression of ISGs by the PBMCs of cattle serves as an early prognosticator of pregnancy. The physiological roles of ISGs remain obscure, but evidence suggests that they are at least in part involved in modifying the immune system to support endometrial remodeling necessary for the successful implantation of the conceptus. Our understanding of these ISGs is primarily the result of work from the laboratories of Drs Fuller Bazer, Thomas (Tod) Hansen, Gregory Johnson, Hakhyun Ka, Patrick Lonergan, Troy Ott, and Thomas Spencer.
