Reproductive tract extracellular vesicles are sufficient to transmit intergenerational stress and program neurodevelopment

Evidence for sperm small noncoding RNA-mediated intergenerational transmission implies communication from responsive somatic cells to sperm. Here, authors show that epididymal cells alter extracellular vesicle cargo after stress exposure, to impact offspring neurodevelopment and stress reactivity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jennifer C. Chan, Christopher P. Morgan, N. Adrian Leu, Amol Shetty, Yasmine M. Cisse, Bridget M. Nugent, Kathleen E. Morrison, Eldin Jašarević, Weiliang Huang, Nickole Kanyuch, Ali B. Rodgers, Natarajan V. Bhanu, Dara S. Berger, Benjamin A. Garcia, Seth Ament, Maureen Kane, C. Neill Epperson, Tracy L. Bale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15305-w