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MicroRNA 200b is upregulated in the lungs of fetal rabbits with surgically induced diaphragmatic hernia.

Prenatal Diagnosis 2018 August
OBJECTIVE: Profiling of miR-200b expression and its targets (transforming growth factor [TGF]-β2 and ZEB2) in the surgical rabbit congenital diaphragmatic hernia (DH) model before and after tracheal occlusion (TO).

METHODS: Thirty-eight timed-pregnant rabbits had left DH creation on gestational day (GD) 23. On GD28, 17 randomly selected fetuses had TO. We harvested fetuses at GD23, GD28, or GD30. We calculated lung-to-body weight ratios, processed lungs for miR-200b in situ hybridization and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction, and evaluated effects on downstream targets TGF-β2 or ZEB2.

RESULTS: We obtained 16 DH fetuses (n = 7 GD28 and n = 9 GD30), 13 TO fetuses (GD30), and 38 control fetuses (n = 15 GD23, n = 11 GD28, and n = 12 GD30). Diaphragmatic hernia lungs were hypoplastic, and TO resulted in control lung-to-body weight ratio levels. Term miR-200b-3p levels were significantly upregulated in the hypoplastic compared with control ipsilateral lung (1.906 ± 0.90 vs 0.7429 ± 0.44) (P < .01). Fetal TO ipsilateral lungs displayed a variable miR-200b response on in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction, with levels similar to control and congenital DH lungs. The TGF-β2 was unchanged in hypoplastic and TO lungs, and ZEB2 tended to be reduced in TO compared with DH lungs (1.79 [0.4-2.9] vs 0.73 [0.5-1.4]).

CONCLUSIONS: Hypoplastic fetal rabbit lungs display upregulation of miR-200b expression although downstream targets are not different from controls. Following TO, fetal rabbit lungs display a variable miR-200b response.

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