Wada M, Iwase M, Wakisaka M, Nunoi K, Yoshinari M, Fujishima M. A new model of diabetic pregnancy with genetic hypertension: pregnancy in spontaneously hypertensive rats with neonatal streptozotocin-induced diabetes.
Am J Obstet Gynecol 1995;
172:626-30. [PMID:
7856696 DOI:
10.1016/0002-9378(95)90583-9]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
We designed this study to develop a new animal model of high-risk pregnancy complicated by hypertension and diabetes mellitus.
STUDY DESIGN
Female spontaneously hypertensive rats were injected intraperitoneally with 75 mg/kg streptozotocin or vehicle as control at 2 days of age. They were mated with untreated male spontaneously hypertensive rats at 4 to 5 months of age.
RESULTS
Hyperglycemia, defined as > 20 mmol/L plasma glucose level, was maintained during pregnancy in streptozotocin-treated spontaneously hypertensive rats, and systolic blood pressure was significantly higher in the streptozotocin-treated group than in controls before delivery (p < 0.01). Furthermore, urinary albumin excretion was significantly increased in the streptozotocin-treated group during and after pregnancy compared with the prepregnant level (p < 0.05), whereas in controls it remained unchanged. The incidence of low birth weight was significantly higher in male neonates from streptozotocin-treated mothers than those from control mothers (p < 0.05).
CONCLUSION
Neonatally streptozotocin-treated spontaneously hypertensive rats may be useful for studying the combined effect of hypertension and diabetes mellitus during pregnancy.
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