Abstract
Iron is one of the essential trace elements for almost all living organisms, and of course it is especially important for pregnancy and fetal development. However, inappropriately low or high levels of iron during pregnancy are detrimental and contribute to serious and lasting effects on the fetus, such as fetal growth and development disorders, thereby increasing the risk of adulthood. Here we stress pregnant rats by drinking water with 10−7 mol/L dexamethasone, and then explore its effects on iron metabolism of placenta and fetal rats. The results showed that dexamethasone treatment inhibited placental development, down‐regulated the expression of placental iron transporter TFR1, and decreased iron levels in fetal rats. Furthermore, we use a human placental choriocarcinoma cell line (BeWo) as model to explore the pathway linking inhibit of TFR1 under Dex challenge, our results demonstrate that the decrease in TFR1 caused by dexamethasone is alleviated by the addition of dexamethasone inhibitor RU486. Taken together, our results show that dexamethasone downregulate TFR1 expression adjust iron metabolism via GR‐mediated.Support or Funding InformationThis work was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0500502), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31872439), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions and the Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Meat Production and Processing, Quality and Safety Control.
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