Attenuated cholesterol metabolism pathway suppresses regulatory T cell development in prenatal nicotine exposed female mice.

In conclusion, this study showed that PNE could suppress Tregs development in female mice by up-regulating ABCG1-dependent cholesterol efflux, and suggested that PNE-induced thymic Tregs recession of offspring at early life was the developmental origin mechanism of immune dysfunction in later life.
PMID: 31629012 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Toxicology - October 15, 2019 Category: Toxicology Authors: Wen X, Zhao WH, Chen LZ, Qu W, Liu HX, Yan HY, Hou LF, Ping J Tags: Toxicology Source Type: research