Maternal diabetes mellitus in early pregnancy leads to hyperlipidemia in reproductive tract organs and an altered embryonic environment. To investigate the consequences on embryonic metabolism, the effect of high environmental-lipid levels was studied in rabbit blastocysts cultured with a lipid mixture in vitro and in blastocysts from diabetic, hyperlipidemic rabbits in vivo. The gene and protein expression of marker molecules involved in lipid metabolism and stress response were analyzed. In diabetic rabbits, the expression of embryoblast genes encoding carnitine palmityl transferase 1 and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors α and γ increased, whereas trophoblast genes encoding for proteins associated with fatty acid synthesis and β-oxidation decreased. Markers for endoplasmic (activating transcription factor 4) and oxidative stress (nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2) were increased in embryoblasts, while markers for cellular redox status (superoxide dismutase 2) and stress (heat shock protein 70) were increased in trophoblasts from diabetic rabbits. The observed regulation pattern in vivo was consistent with an adaptation response to the hyperlipidemic environment, suggesting that maternal lipids have an impact on the intracellular metabolism of the preimplantation embryo in diabetic pregnancy and that embryoblasts are particularly vulnerable to metabolic stress.
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