Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Maternal and perinatal obesity induce bronchial obstruction and pulmonary hypertension via IL-6-FoxO1-axis in later life

  • Jaco Selle,
  • Katharina Dinger,
  • Vanessa Jentgen,
  • Daniela Zanetti,
  • Johannes Will,
  • Theodoros Georgomanolis,
  • Christina Vohlen,
  • Rebecca Wilke,
  • Baktybek Kojonazarov,
  • Oleksiy Klymenko,
  • Jasmine Mohr,
  • Silke v. Koningsbruggen-Rietschel,
  • Christopher J. Rhodes,
  • Anna Ulrich,
  • Dharmesh Hirani,
  • Tim Nestler,
  • Margarete Odenthal,
  • Esther Mahabir,
  • Sreenath Nayakanti,
  • Swati Dabral,
  • Thomas Wunderlich,
  • James Priest,
  • Werner Seeger,
  • Jörg Dötsch,
  • Soni S. Pullamsetti,
  • Miguel A. Alejandre Alcazar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31655-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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This study shows that maternal and perinatal obesity cause bronchial and vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation through an IL-6-FoxO1 axis, and favor thereby the emergence of bronchial obstruction and pulmonary hypertension later in life.