Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Decreased maternal serum acetate and impaired fetal thymic and regulatory T cell development in preeclampsia

  • Mingjing Hu,
  • David Eviston,
  • Peter Hsu,
  • Eliana Mariño,
  • Ann Chidgey,
  • Brigitte Santner-Nanan,
  • Kahlia Wong,
  • James L. Richards,
  • Yu Anne Yap,
  • Fiona Collier,
  • Ann Quinton,
  • Steven Joung,
  • Michael Peek,
  • Ron Benzie,
  • Laurence Macia,
  • David Wilson,
  • Ann-Louise Ponsonby,
  • Mimi L. K. Tang,
  • Martin O’Hely,
  • Norelle L. Daly,
  • Charles R. Mackay,
  • Jane E. Dahlstrom,
  • The BIS Investigator Group,
  • Peter Vuillermin,
  • Ralph Nanan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10703-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Maternal immunological dysregulation might affect the immunological development of the fetus. Here the authors show that decreased maternal acetate is associated with preeclampsia, impaired fetal thymic output and regulatory T cell development.