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Gumpp 2020 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

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Gumpp AM, Boeck C, Behnke A, Bach AM, Ramo-Fernández L, Welz T, Gündel H, Kolassa IT, Karabatsiakis A (2020) Childhood maltreatment is associated with changes in mitochondrial bioenergetics in maternal, but not in neonatal immune cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117:24778-84.

» PMID: 33004627

Gumpp Anja M, Boeck Christina, Behnke Alexander, Bach Alexandra M, Ramo-Fernandez Laura, Welz Thilo, Guendel Harald, Kolassa Iris-Tatjana, Karabatsiakis Alexander (2020) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Abstract: Childhood maltreatment (CM) comprises experiences of abuse and neglect during childhood. CM causes psychological as well as biological alterations in affected individuals. In humans, it is hardly explored whether these CM consequences can be transmitted directly on a biological level to the next generation. Here, we investigated the associations between maternal CM and mitochondrial bioenergetics (mitochondrial respiration and intracellular mitochondrial density) in immune cells of mothers and compared them with those of their newborns. In n = 102 healthy mother-newborn dyads, maternal peripheral blood mononuclear cells and neonatal umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells were collected and cryopreserved shortly after parturition to measure mitochondrial respiration and intracellular mitochondrial density with high-resolution respirometry and spectrophotometric analyses, respectively. Maternal CM was assessed with the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Maternal and neonatal mitochondrial bioenergetics were quantitatively comparable and positively correlated. Female newborns showed higher mitochondrial respiration compared to male newborns. Maternal CM load was significantly and positively associated with mitochondrial respiration and density in mothers, but not with mitochondrial respiration in newborns. Although maternal and neonatal mitochondrial bioenergetics were positively correlated, maternal CM only had a small effect on mitochondrial density in newborns, which was not significant in this study after adjustment for multiple comparisons. The biological relevance of our finding and its consequences for child development need further investigation in future larger studies. This study reports data on mitochondrial bioenergetics of healthy mother-newborn dyads with varying degrees of CM. Keywords: Bioenergetics, Childhood maltreatment, Immune cells, Intracellular density, Mitochondria Bioblast editor: Plangger M O2k-Network Lab: DE Ulm Gumpp A


Labels: MiParea: Respiration, Comparative MiP;environmental MiP 


Organism: Human  Tissue;cell: Blood cells  Preparation: Intact cells 


Coupling state: LEAK, ROUTINE, ET  Pathway: ROX  HRR: Oxygraph-2k 

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