Abstract
Aims/hypothesis
We tested the hypothesis that diabetes in pregnancy can result in the in-utero reprogramming of renal calcium and magnesium handling and of bone formation in the offspring, which persists into adulthood.
Methods
Male offspring of streptozotocin-treated diabetic rats (OD rats) and of control non-diabetic animals (OC rats) were investigated as neonates and at 8, 12 and 16 weeks of age.
Results
Compared with OC rats, urinary calcium and magnesium output was significantly reduced in OD rats at every age studied; Na+ and K+ outputs were unaffected. The renal expression of proteins involved in the tubular reabsorption of calcium (calcium ATPase, calbindin-D28k and epithelial calcium channel) was increased in OD animals compared with that in OC animals. Additionally, we observed that adult OD rats had lower trabecular and higher cortical femoral bone volumes, explained by deposition of bone on the endosteal surface.
Conclusions/interpretation
These data show that diabetes in pregnancy has profound effects on male offspring in terms of renal tubular calcium and magnesium reabsorption and the normal pattern of bone formation. These effects persist into adulthood. Such long-lasting effects of diabetes on kidney and the skeleton were not suspected and could have important implications for the health of children born to diabetic women.
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Introduction
Epidemiological and experimental evidence suggests that low birthweight predicts subsequent hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and ischaemic heart disease in adult life [1, 2]. Disturbed glucose metabolism and gestational diabetes have also been observed in rat offspring born to diabetic mothers [3, 4]. However the substantial effect of maternal diabetes on electrolyte balance, and specifically calcium homeostasis has largely been ignored with respect to effects on the offspring.
Neonatal hypocalcaemia [5–8] and hypomagnesaemia [6, 9] are observed in infants born to diabetic mothers and have been associated with altered bone mineral content [10, 11]. Reduced bone mineral content and/or retarded skeletal development is found in the neonates of transgenic and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats [12–15]. This may, in part, be related to the greatly increased renal calcium and magnesium loss suffered by the diabetic mother, as compared with her non-diabetic pregnant counterparts [16]; an effect that could influence fetal renal function. Active transcellular calcium transport in the kidney occurs mainly in the distal portion of the nephron [17] and involves three key proteins: epithelial calcium channel 1 (ECaC1), calbindin-D28K and plasma membrane calcium ATPase (PMCA) [18–20]. Altered PMCA [20] and calbindin-D28K [21] expression has been observed in diabetic rats. No information is available regarding the effect of diabetes on ECaC1 and no data are available on the effects of diabetic pregnancy on the expression of these calcium-transporting proteins in the resulting offspring.
The possibility that calcium or magnesium homeostasis may be altered in adult offspring of diabetic pregnancies has not previously been investigated. In this study we tested the hypothesis that offspring born to diabetic mothers exhibit alterations in bone formation and in renal calcium and magnesium reabsorption as a result of in-utero programming, which persist from birth through to adulthood.
Materials and methods
Diabetic and control pregnant rats
Female Sprague–Dawley rats (Charles River, Manston, Kent, UK) aged 8 weeks (weight 221–242 g) were rendered diabetic with streptozotocin (i. p. injection of 60 mg/kg 0.1 mol/l citrate buffer, pH 4.8). Control rats were given an i. p. injection of the vehicle (0.1 mol/l citrate buffer) alone. After 48 h, diabetes was confirmed in the former group by the development of glycosuria (Uristix; Ames DVN, Miles, Slough, UK) and hyperglycaemia (blood glucose concentration >15 mmol/l). Blood for the latter was obtained via direct needle puncture of the tail vein, which was followed by immediate assay using a blood glucose analyser (Hemocue, Sheffield, UK). The diabetic female rats were then housed with a non-diabetic male for mating. The first day of gestation (term=21–23 days) was determined by the discovery of a copulation plug. The female was removed and housed individually. All mothers were provided with nesting material and allowed to litter naturally. All experiments were performed in accordance with the UK Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act of 1986.
Offspring
Neonatal study
Urine samples were collected from offspring of diabetic pregnant mothers (OD rats) and offspring of control pregnant mothers (OC rats) on day 1 postpartum using the method previously described by Kavlock and Gray [22]. This method adopts the principle that neonatal rats do not micturate voluntarily, but require an external stimulus to empty their bladders. The three largest male OD and OC rats were removed from their mothers within 1 day postpartum and their bladders emptied via stimulation of the perineal region. The pups were then incubated at 37°C for 2 h, the bladder emptied again, and the urine sample collected. Following determination of urine volume, the samples from the same litter were pooled to produce a sufficient volume for analysis.
Terminal carotid blood samples were then collected for analysis, and the animals were killed by cervical dislocation. Blood was collected into heparinised tubes and centrifuged immediately to separate the plasma. Both kidneys were removed, immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at −80°C until analysis. Hind legs were removed and stored in 100% ethanol until analysis.
Adult study
Immediately following birth, all offspring were cross-fostered. For this purpose, pups were sexed and litters limited to six male pups. One-half of the control mothers had their pups removed. The other half of the control mothers then had their offspring (OC rats) removed and fostered onto this initial group of control mothers. The OD pups were then removed from their diabetic mothers and fostered onto the remaining group of control mothers. All mothers and pups were left undisturbed for 3 weeks. After 3 weeks, the pups were weaned, housed in groups of 3–4 and given free access to food and water.
Metabolism studies
Metabolism studies were performed on OD and OC rats housed individually in wire-bottomed Metabowl cages (Astra-Zeneca, Loughborough, UK) at 8, 12 and 16 weeks. Animals were acclimated to the cages for a period of 7 days. Collections were made every 24 h over a 3-day period, noting food and fluid intake and output of urine and faeces. Urine samples were kept at 4°C until further analysis. After a period of at least 1 day following the metabolic study, one animal from each litter was killed by cervical dislocation. Following immediate laparotomy, a blood sample was withdrawn from the abdominal aorta into a heparinised tube for plasma separation. Both kidneys were removed and immediately frozen in liquid N2. Femurs were also removed, the bone stripped, and stored in 100% ethanol until analysis. Other animals were returned to their normal cages between metabolic studies.
Analyses
Urinary Na+ and K+ concentrations were analysed in duplicate using flame photometry (Corning 480 Photometer; Corning, Halstead, Essex, UK) standardised for urine (160 mmol/l NaCl, 80 mmol/l KCl) with combined Corning MultiCal vials. Urinary and plasma calcium and magnesium concentrations were analysed in triplicate by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry (Perkin Elmer 3100 Spectrophotometer; Seer Green, Buckinghamshire, UK). Samples for calcium analysis were diluted 1:50 in a 0.3% lanthanum (LaCl3.H2O) solution. Samples were diluted in deionised water for magnesium analysis (urine 1:200, plasma 1:50).
Samples were assayed for plasma glucose concentration by the glucose oxidase–peroxidase method (Ames Sera-Pak; Bayer Diagnostics, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK).
Western blotting
Protein samples were prepared from either one adult kidney from each animal or from pooled kidneys of neonates from the same mother to obtain sufficient protein for analysis. The adult kidneys were taken from animals aged 8–12 weeks (the effects of diabetes were similar across this age range—see Results). Kidneys were thawed and homogenised in buffer containing 12 mmol/l HEPES (pH 7.6), 300 mmol/l mannitol, 2 μg/ml pepstatin, 1 μg/ml leupeptin and 100 μmol/l AEBSF [4-(2-aminoethyl)benzenesulphonyl fluoride]. The homogenate was centrifuged at 2,500 g for 15 min, and aliquots of this post-nuclear supernatant stored at −80°C for calbindin-D28K assay. The remaining supernatant was centrifuged at 100 000 g for 30 min to obtain a particulate protein pellet. This was resuspended in buffer (as above), and aliquots were stored at −80°C for ECaC1 and PMCA assay. Samples were normalised for protein content (Bio-Rad Protein Assay, BioRad Laboratories, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK). A pooled adult kidney protein sample was run on every blot to allow normalisation of density data between different blots.
Protein-SDS complexes were prepared by adding a 15-μl sample of kidney protein to 7.5 μl reducing buffer (8 mol/l urea, 5% SDS, 0.04% bromophenol blue, 455 mmol/l dithiothreitol in 50 mmol/l Tris–HCl, pH 6.9). Samples were subjected to SDS-PAGE on a 7, 10 and 12% gel for PMCA (15-μg protein), ECaC1 (30 μg neonate protein, 50 μg adult protein) and calbindin-D28K (15 μg protein), respectively, and then electrotransferred onto nitrocellulose membranes (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Little Chalfont, UK). The antisera used were mouse monoclonal anti-calbindin-D28K (1:2,500 dilution; Sigma, Poole, Dorset, UK), mouse monoclonal anti-PMCA 5F10 (1:1,500 dilution; Cambridge Bioscience, Cambridge, UK) and affinity-purified rabbit polyclonal anti-ECaC1 (1:1,000 dilution; Alpha Diagnostic International, San Antonio, TX, USA). Negative controls were performed by omitting the primary antibody. Immunoreactive species were detected with sheep anti-mouse antibody (1:1,000 dilution, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) or goat anti-rabbit antibody (1:2,000 dilution, Dako, Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK) using an enhanced chemiluminescence detection system (ECL; Amersham Pharmacia Biotech). The density of the immunoreactive species was assessed following scanning of the film using a Quantinet 600 semiautomated image analyser (Leica Microsystems Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) and normalised to that of the control band for each experimental run.
Bone analysis
This part of the study was carried out on distal adult (8–12 weeks of age) femurs and proximal neonatal tibias. These bones were selected because they could be guaranteed to be accurately oriented in the different age groups. Bone histomorphometry was performed on paired femurs and tibias from three adult and three neonatal animals. There was a straight-line relationship between the trabecular bone volumes of the two bones (data not shown). In the main part of the study, six adult femurs and six neonatal tibias from animals in each of the two groups were transected transversely through the mid-shaft. Each half of the bone was fixed in alcohol. The distal femur and proximal tibia were processed undecalcified into methylmethacrylate-based resin. The bones were supported during resin polymerisation in such a way that it was possible to make accurate coronal sections of each bone. Serial 7-μm tissue sections were stained with toluidine blue and von Kossa’s stains, and then mounted on microscope slides. For each animal, one section of every five was taken, such that five sections were used for examination that covered about 150 μm of bone. Sections were examined at ×60 magnification. An area of bone extending from the primary bone of the growth plate to a fixed point in the diaphysis was used for the blinded assessment of cortical and trabecular bone volume, using a Quantinet 600 semiautomated image analyser. All parameters, their measurement and nomenclature are in accordance with internationally accepted standards [23]. The other part of each bone was embedded in methacrylate resin, with the shaft pointing upwards. The shaft was measured under a dissecting microscope attached to the image analyser. The internal and external diameters of the cortex, together with the absolute area of the cortex and its mean thickness, were measured.
Because of the large differences in absolute and derived proportional measurements of bone parameters between adult and neonatal animals, all data are expressed relative to the mean value for control (OC) bone (100%).
Statistical analysis
Data are shown as means±SEM (where n=the number of litters); where more than one offspring was studied from a particular litter, data were averaged to give a single value for that litter. Data from the two different groups were compared using Student’s t-test.
Results
Body weight, food consumption and fluid intake
At birth, the neonatal male OD rats were significantly lighter than the male OC rats (5.1±0.2 vs 6.2±0.2 g, p<0.001); thus, all neonatal urinary output data are expressed per gram body weight. No significant differences were observed between the two groups in terms of body weight, or food or fluid intake at 8, 12 or 16 weeks (data not shown).
Renal function
There were no significant differences between the OD and OC rats in terms of urinary volume, osmolality, Na+ or K+ output over 24 h, or in plasma calcium or glucose concentrations at any of the time points studied (data not shown). In contrast, Fig. 1a shows that urinary calcium output was significantly lower in the OD rats than in the OC rats at 0 (neonates), 8, 12 and 16 weeks. Figure 1b shows that compared with the OC rats, the OD rats had a significantly lower urinary magnesium output at 0 (neonates), 12 and 16 weeks.
Western blotting
Expression of PMCA
The monoclonal anti-PMCA antibody detected a broad protein band at around 140 kDa (∼133–147 kDa) and a smaller band at 92 kDa, consistent with previous observations [19]; these bands were absent from negative control blots (data not shown). The relative density of the major immunoreactive species at ∼140 kDa, representing PMCA [19], was significantly greater in the OD rats than in the OC rats, in both neonatal (Fig. 2a) and adult (Fig. 2d) kidney membrane fractions.
Expression of calbindin-D28K
The monoclonal anti-calbindin-D28K antibody detected a single protein band at 28 kDa in the renal post-nuclear supernatant. The relative density of this band was significantly increased in both neonatal (Fig. 2b) and adult (Fig. 2e) OD rats as compared with that in OC rats.
Expression of ECaC1
The polyclonal anti-ECaC1 antibody detected a single protein band at 84 kDa in membrane fractions of kidneys. The relative density of this band was significantly increased in the neonatal OD rats as compared with that in the neonatal OC rats (Fig. 2c); there was no difference between the two groups of adult rats (Fig. 2f).
Bone analysis
In neonatal tibias, there was no difference in trabecular bone volume between the two groups, although there was a slight increase in cortical bone volume in the OD rats relative to the OC rats (Fig. 3). In adult OD rats, there was a relative increase in cortical bone volume and a marked decrease in trabecular bone volume (Fig. 3). Further analysis of the adult bones revealed that the mean cortical area and thickness of the OD femurs were increased relative to those of the OC femurs, predominantly due to a decrease in mean internal diameter (Fig. 4).
Discussion
Diabetes mellitus in human pregnancy is associated with a number of abnormalities of calcium and magnesium homeostasis in the neonate including hypocalcaemia, hypomagnesaemia and altered bone mineral content [5–11]. The diabetic pregnant rat exhibits marked hypercalciuria and hypermagnesiuria [16, 24], and the newborn offspring have retarded ossification and delayed bone maturation [15, 24]. Despite these well-documented effects of diabetic pregnancy on calcium and magnesium homeostasis in the human and rat neonate, no previous study had investigated whether these effects persist beyond the neonatal period. Our results show that there are long-lasting effects on renal handling of calcium and magnesium and on the structure of bone.
Urinary calcium output was significantly reduced in OD animals compared with that in OC animals, in neonates and at all adult stages studied (up to 16 weeks of age). A similar decrease in urinary magnesium output was observed in OD animals. These changes occurred in the absence of any differences in food or water intake, or in plasma concentrations of glucose or calcium, and are the converse of those found in the diabetic mothers, where urinary calcium and magnesium output is specifically increased [16, 25]. However, the changes in urinary calcium and magnesium output in diabetic mothers and their offspring occur in the absence of any change in urinary Na+ or K+ excretion. This indicates that the effect of diabetes on renal electrolyte reabsorption appears to involve a specific effect on the tubular handling of the divalent cations. We only investigated male offspring in the present study, and the effects of diabetic pregnancy on renal electrolyte excretion by female offspring also need to be considered; our preliminary data suggest that the effect is similar (H. Bond and K. Hamilton, unpublished observations).
We next investigated the mechanism underlying the hypocalciuria in the OD neonates and adults by assessing the expression of renal proteins involved in tubular calcium reabsorption. Levels of calbindin-D28K and PMCA, as determined by western blotting, were higher in neonatal and adult OD animals than in OC animals. Levels of ECaC1 were also significantly higher in OD neonates, but this trend did not continue into adulthood. These three proteins are the primary proteins responsible for the transcellular transport/reabsorption of calcium from the renal tubule lumen back into the blood. Therefore, the observed increase in levels of PMCA, calbindin-D28K and ECaC1 (neonates only), if reflected in transport activity, would increase calcium reabsorption in the distal nephron [25, 26]. This suggests that the hypocalciuria observed in OD rats arises from tubular modification of calcium handling; a conclusion supported by our preliminary data showing that the renal fractional excretion of calcium is decreased in adult anaesthetised OD rats [27]. As OD pups were cross-fostered onto control mothers at birth, factors within the in utero environment must have programmed the apparently permanent changes in calbindin-D28k and PMCA expression and the more transient change in ECaC1 levels.
In contrast to their offspring, diabetic pregnant rats show marked hypercalciuria and hypermagnesiuria [16]. However, glucose could be responsible for the altered renal divalent cation handling in both diabetic mothers and their offspring. Glucose rapidly crosses the placenta down a maternofetal plasma concentration gradient; consequently, and fetuses of diabetic rats show a similar degree of hyperglycaemia as their mothers [28]. If high plasma or tubular glucose inhibits calcium reabsorption in early parts of the nephron, the response in both mother and fetus may be to increase distal tubular PMCA and calbindin-D28k expression, as we have shown previously in mothers [21]. If such a response in the fetal kidney in utero persisted in the normoglycaemic offspring ex utero, hypocalciuria would develop. This reasoning is consistent with the results of the present study.
We have previously shown that unidirectional calcium transport across the placenta of the diabetic pregnant rat is impaired [29] and that OD fetuses in utero are calcium deficient [29]. This could exacerbate the glucose effect described above, fetal calcium deficiency resulting in decreased tubular concentrations of calcium and, in turn, the upregulation of the calcium-transporting proteins. The hypothesis that fetal kidney expression of calcium-transporting proteins is permanently programmed by prevailing in-utero glucose and/or calcium concentrations should be tested in future experiments. Such experiments also need to examine related endocrine changes: in a separate study we have found that concentrations of serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) are reduced in 8-week-old OD rats relative to those in OC rats [30].
The previously reported abnormal skeleton formation and bone mineral content in neonates of diabetic rats [12–15] led us to examine the distribution of bone between trabecular and cortical compartments in neonatal and adult offspring. In adult OD rats there was a marked shift from trabecular to cortical compartments. Measurements of shaft diameter and the proportion and distribution of cortical bone in adults showed that the thickening of the cortex was explained by the accumulation of bone on the endosteal (inner) surface. The mechanism underlying this effect now requires investigation, but must have its origins in utero. It could be a primary effect of maternal diabetes on fetal bone cell function (e.g. due to the programming of mechanisms leading to endocortical bone apposition) or a secondary effect of maternal diabetes on offspring renal function that involves the accumulation of minerals reabsorbed in the kidney postnatally at the endosteal site. Importantly, we have found no difference between the two groups in terms of faecal calcium and magnesium content (H. Bond, unpublished observations), suggesting that the intestinal handling of the ions is unaffected.
Irrespective of the mechanisms involved, the in-utero effects of maternal diabetes on mineral handling by kidney and bone, which extend to adulthood, may be of profound importance. The strength of a bone is determined by its size, shape and distribution of bone tissue. Thus, if the human adult offspring of diabetic individuals have generalised changes in cortical or trabecular bone mass similar to those seen in the long bones of the rats in this study, then their risk of bone fractures will be altered compared with that in the offspring of normal mothers. Similarly, there may be long-term implications for renal function in adults whose mothers were diabetic. Indeed, we have recently reported the results of a preliminary study showing decreased urinary calcium and magnesium excretion by children born to mothers with type 1 diabetes [31].
Abbreviations
- ECaC1:
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epithelial calcium channel 1
- OC:
-
offspring of control pregnant mothers
- OD:
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offspring of diabetic pregnant mothers
- PMCA:
-
plasma membrane calcium ATPase
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We are very grateful to the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust (London, UK) for funding this project and to Z. Mughal, J. Adams and N. Ashton for helpful discussion.
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Bond, H., Hamilton, K., Balment, R.J. et al. Diabetes in rat pregnancy alters renal calcium and magnesium reabsorption and bone formation in adult offspring. Diabetologia 48, 1393–1400 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-005-1804-5
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