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Cardiac development is a dynamic process, temporally and spatially. When disturbed, it leads to congenital cardiac anomalies that affect approximately 1% of live births. Genetic variants in several loci lead to anomalies, with the transcription factor  NKX2-5  being one of the largest. However, there are also non-genetic factors that influence cardiac malformations. We examined the hypothesis that hyperoxia may be beneficial and can rescue genetic cardiac anomalies induced by an  Nkx2-5  mutation. Intermittent mild hyperoxia (40% PO 2 ) was applied for 10 h per day to normal wild-type female mice mated with heterozygous  Nkx2-5  mutant males from gestational day 8.5 to birth. Hyperoxia therapy reduced excessive trabeculation in  Nkx2-5  mutant mice compared to normoxic conditions (ratio of trabecular layer relative to compact layer area, normoxia 1.84 ± 0.07 vs. hyperoxia 1.51 ± 0.04) and frequency of muscular ventricular septal defects per heart (1.53 ± 0.32 vs. 0.68 ± 0.15); however, the incidence of membranous ventricular septal defects in  Nkx2-5  mutant hearts was not changed.  Nkx2-5  mutant embryonic hearts showed defective coronary vessel organization, which was improved by intermittent mild hyperoxia. The results of our study showed that mild gestational hyperoxia therapy rescued genetic cardiac malformation induced by  Nkx2-5  mutation in part.

Gestational intermittent hyperoxia rescues murine genetic congenital heart disease in part