Dimorphic placental stress: A repercussion of interaction between endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and fetal sex

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• 作者：Surbhi Sood^a ; ^b ; Sudhanshu Shekhar^a ; ^b ; Winkins Santosh^a ; ^c ; ^{santoshmcc@yahoo.com}
• 关键词：Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) ; Placental stress ; Fetal sex ; Sexual dimorphism ; Disease susceptibility
• 刊名：Medical Hypotheses
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：99
• 期：Complete
• 页码：73-75
• 全文大小：233 K
• 卷排序：99

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Placental homeostasis is critical for fetal development as it determines the health of mother and fetus during pregnancy and in later life. Interestingly even the fetus, in a sexually dimorphic manner, influences the pedantic growth and development of placenta. Although placenta is thought to act as a protective barrier against chemical exposures, certain endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that are circulating in mother’s blood tend to cross placenta. These EDCs have been reported to cause changes in expression levels of certain genes, immunogenic factors and non-coding RNAs such as micro RNA (miRNA) and long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) leading to placental stress. We hypothesize that these changes in placenta occur in a sexually dimorphic manner as a result of interaction between EDC exposure and fetal sex. Therefore, we propose that the ability of placenta to respond and buffer EDC exposure depends on fetal sex and, hence the EDC associated disease susceptibility of one sex differs from the other.