B09

Effects of maternal hyperlipidemia on embryo-derived macrophages and perinatal immune development

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Graphical abstract for Project B09

In this project, we analyze how maternal hyperlipidemia affects embryonic macrophages – the cell type at the core of the project leader's research interests.

Tools include temporal control of metabolic disease activity during pregnancy with low density lipoprotein receptor anti-sense oligonucleotides, cross fostering experiments, and long-term phenotyping of prenatally exposed mice. Furthermore, we investigate study human placental pathology with a focus on embryo-derived Hofbauer macrophages and maternal decidua macrophages.

Team

Publications

Resident and recruited macrophages differentially contribute to cardiac healing after myocardial ischemia

Tobias Weinberger, Messerer Denise, Markus Joppich, Maximilian Fischer, Clarisabel Garcia Rodriguez, Konda Kumaraswami, Vanessa Wimmler, Sonja Ablinger, Saskia Räuber, Jiahui Fang, Lulu Liu, Wing Han Liu, Julia Winterhalter, Johannes Lichti, Lukas Thomas, Dena Esfandyari, Guelce Percin, Sandra Matin, Andrés Hidalgo, Claudia Waskow, Stefan Engelhardt, Andrei Todica, Ralf Zimmer, Clare Pridans, Elisa Gomez Perdiguero, Christian Schulz

Mural cell-derived chemokines provide a protective niche to safeguard vascular macrophages and limit chronic inflammation

Pekayvaz K, Gold C, Hoseinpour P, Engel A, Martinez-Navarro A, Eivers L, Coletti R, Joppich M, Dionísio F, Kaiser R, Tomas L, Janjic A, Knott M, Mehari F, Polewka V, Kirschner M, Boda A, Nicolai L, Schulz H, Titova A, Kilani B, Lorenz M, Fingerle-Rowson G, Bucala R, Enard W, Zimmer R, Weber C, Libby P, Schulz C, Massberg S, Stark K.