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Wunderlich AL, Stopa L, Martins AB, de Souza CF, Monteiro É, Aguiar D, Guergolette R, Shishido P, Zaia CT, Uchoa E. Neonatal overnutritional programming impairs the hypophagia and neuron activation induced by acute lipopolysaccharide in adult male rats. Nutr Neurosci 2024; 27:734-744. [PMID: 37650777 DOI: 10.1080/1028415x.2023.2250967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Nutritional status during critical windows in early development can challenge metabolic functions and physiological responses to immune stress in adulthood, such as the systemic inflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term effects of post-natal over- and undernutrition on the anorexigenic effect of LPS and its association with neuronal activation in the brainstem and hypothalamus of male rats. Animals were raised in litters of 3 (small - SL), 10 (normal - NL), or 16 (large - LL) pups per dam. On post-natal day 60, male rats were treated with LPS (500 µg/Kg) or vehicle for the evaluation of food intake and c-Fos expression in the area postrema (AP), nucleus of solitary tract (NTS), and paraventricular (PVN), arcuate (ARC), ventromedial (VMH), and dorsomedial (DMH) nuclei of the hypothalamus. SL, NL, and LL animals showed a decreased food consumption after LPS treatment. In under- and normonourished animals, peripheral LPS induced an increase in neuronal activation in the brainstem, PaV, PaMP, and ARC and a decrease in the number of c-Fos-ir neurons in the DMH. Overnourished rats showed a reduced hypophagic response, lower neuron activation in the NTS and PaMP, and no response in the DMH induced by LPS. These results indicate that early nutritional programming displays different responses to LPS, by means of neonatal overnutrition decreasing LPS-mediated anorexigenic effect and neuronal activation in the NTS and hypothalamic nuclei.
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- Ana Luiza Wunderlich
- Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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- Multicenter Program in Physiological Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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- Ciências Fisiológicas, State University of Londrina: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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- Ciências Fisiológicas, State University of Londrina: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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- Ciências Fisiológicas, State University of Londrina: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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Wen J, Lv A, Aihemaitijiang S, Li H, Zhou Y, Liu J. The association of maternal gestational weight gain with cardiometabolic risk factors in offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutr Rev 2024:nuae027. [PMID: 38607346 DOI: 10.1093/nutrit/nuae027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/13/2024] Open
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CONTEXT Gestational weight gain (GWG) is known to be a risk factor for offspring obesity, a precursor of cardiometabolic diseases. Accumulating studies have investigated the association of GWG with offspring cardiometabolic risk factors (CRFs), leading to inconsistent results. OBJECTIVE This study synthesized available data from cohort studies to examine the effects of GWG on offspring CRFs. DATA SOURCE Four electronic databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Embase, were searched through May 2023. DATA EXTRACTION Cohort studies evaluating the association between GWG and CRFs (fat mass [FM], body fat percentage [BF%], waist circumference [WC], systolic blood pressure [SBP] and diastolic blood pressure, high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol [HDL-C] and low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol, triglyceride [TG], total cholesterol, fasting blood glucose, and fasting insulin levels) were included. Regression coefficients, means or mean differences with 95% confidence intervals [CIs], or standard deviations were extracted. DATA ANALYSIS Thirty-three cohort studies were included in the meta-analysis. Higher GWG (per increase of 1 kg) was associated with greater offspring FM (0.041 kg; 95% CI, 0.016 to 0.067), BF% (0.145%; 95% CI, 0.116 to 0.174), WC (0.154 cm; 95% CI, 0.036 to 0.272), SBP (0.040 mmHg; 95% CI, 0.010 to 0.070), and TG (0.004 mmol/L; 95% CI, 0.001 to 0.007), and with lower HDL-C (-0.002 mmol/L; 95% CI, -0.004 to 0.000). Consistently, excessive GWG was associated with higher offspring FM, BF%, WC, and insulin, and inadequate GWG was associated with lower BF%, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, and TG, compared with adequate GWG. Most associations went non-significant or attenuated with adjustment for offspring body mass index or FM. CONCLUSIONS Higher maternal GWG is associated with increased offspring adiposity, SBP, TG, and insulin and decreased HDL-C in offspring, warranting a need to control GWG and to screen for cardiometabolic abnormalities of offspring born to mothers with excessive GWG. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION PROSPERO registration no. CRD42023412098.
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- Jiaxing Wen
- Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, Ministry of Health Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, Ministry of Health Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, Ministry of Health Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, Ministry of Health Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, Ministry of Health Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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Wang W, Choudhary A, Mu C, Scantlebury MH, Shearer J, Reimer RA. Protocol for nutritional intervention in neonatal rats using the "pup-in-a-cup" artificial rearing system. STAR Protoc 2024; 5:102919. [PMID: 38427567 PMCID: PMC10918325 DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2024.102919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024] Open
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Early-life nutrition fundamentally influences newborn development and health. Here, we present a protocol for nutritional intervention in neonatal rats using the "pup-in-a-cup" artificial rearing system. We describe steps for rat milk substitute preparation, cheek cannulation and maintenance, and nutritional manipulation during the suckling period. This protocol enables investigation into the role of nutritional factors in newborns by artificially rearing rats away from the mother with experimental diets starting at postnatal day 4 for up to 18 days. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Wang et al.,1 Choudhary et al.,2 and Mu et al.3,4.
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- Weilan Wang
- Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada; Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada; Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada; Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada.
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Wunderlich ALM, Martins AB, de Souza CF, Stopa LRS, Monteiro ÉCAM, Aguiar DD, Guergolette RP, Zaia CTBV, Uchôa ET. Neonatal overnutrition, but not neonatal undernutrition, disrupts CCK-induced hypophagia and neuron activation of the nucleus of the solitary tract and paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus of male Wistar rats. Brain Res Bull 2023; 195:109-119. [PMID: 36813046 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2023.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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Metabolic programming may be induced by reduction or enhancement of litter size, which lead to neonatal over or undernutrition, respectively. Changes in neonatal nutrition can challenge some regulatory processes in adulthood, such as the hypophagic effect of cholecystokinin (CCK). In order to investigate the effects of nutritional programming on the anorexigenic function of CCK in adulthood, pups were raised in small (SL, 3 pups per dam), normal (NL, 10 pups per dam), or large litters (LL, 16 pups per dam), and on postnatal day 60, male rats were treated with vehicle or CCK (10 µg/Kg) for the evaluation of food intake and c-Fos expression in the area postrema (AP), nucleus of solitary tract (NTS), and paraventricular (PVN), arcuate (ARC), ventromedial (VMH), and dorsomedial (DMH) nuclei of the hypothalamus. Overnourished rats showed increased body weight gain that was inversely correlated with neuronal activation of PaPo, VMH, and DMH neurons, whereas undernourished rats had lower body weight gain, inversely correlated with increased neuronal activation of PaPo only. SL rats showed no anorexigenic response and lower neuron activation in the NTS and PVN induced by CCK. LL exhibited preserved hypophagia and neuron activation in the AP, NTS, and PVN in response to CCK. CCK showed no effect in c-Fos immunoreactivity in the ARC, VMH, and DMH in any litter. These results indicate that anorexigenic actions, associated with neuron activation in the NTS and PVN, induced by CCK were impaired by neonatal overnutrition. However, these responses were not disrupted by neonatal undernutrition. Thus, data suggest that an excess or poor supply of nutrients during lactation display divergent effects on programming CCK satiation signaling in male adult rats.
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- Multicenter Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Multicenter Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil; Multicenter Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil; Department of Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil; Multicenter Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil; Department of Physiological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil.
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Effect of supplementation with select human milk oligosaccharides on artificially reared newborn rats. Br J Nutr 2022; 128:1906-1916. [PMID: 34963503 DOI: 10.1017/s0007114521005146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Early life nutrition fundamentally influences neonatal development and health. Human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) are key components of breast milk but not standard infant formula that support the establishment of the newborn gut microbiota. Using an artificial rearing system, our objective was to test the effect of two HMO on the whole body and organ growth, adiposity, glucose tolerance and faecal microbiota in young rat pups. From postnatal days 4 to 21, Sprague-Dawley rats were randomised to receive one of: (1) CTR (rat milk substitute); (2) 2'FL (CTR + 1·2 g/l 2'-fucosyllactose); (3) 3'SL (CTR + 1·2 g/l 3'-sialyllactose) and (4) 2'FL + 3'SL (CTR + 0·6 g/l 2'-FL + 0·6 g/l 3'-SL). Body weight (BW), bowel movements and food intake were monitored daily, faecal samples collected each week and oral glucose tolerance, body composition and organ weight measured at weaning. No significant differences were observed between groups in growth performance, body composition, organ weight and abundance of dominant faecal microbes. A decreased relative abundance of genus Proteus in week 1 faecal samples and Terrisporobacter in week 3 faecal samples (P < 0·05) was suggestive of a potential pathogen inhibitory effect of 3'SL. Longitudinal changes in the faecal microbiota of artificially reared suckling rats were primarily governed by age (P = 0·001) and not affected by the presence of 2'-FL and/or 3'-SL in rat milk substitutes (P = 0·479). Considering the known protective effects of HMO, further investigation of supplementation with these and other HMO in models of premature birth, extremely low BW or malnutrition may show more pronounced outcomes.
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Rajamoorthi A, LeDuc CA, Thaker VV. The metabolic conditioning of obesity: A review of the pathogenesis of obesity and the epigenetic pathways that "program" obesity from conception. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2022; 13:1032491. [PMID: 36329895 PMCID: PMC9622759 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2022.1032491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Understanding the developmental origins of health and disease is integral to overcome the global tide of obesity and its metabolic consequences, including atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. The rising prevalence of obesity has been attributed, in part, to environmental factors including the globalization of the western diet and unhealthy lifestyle choices. In this review we argue that how and when such exposures come into play from conception significantly impact overall risk of obesity and later health outcomes. While the laws of thermodynamics dictate that obesity is caused by an imbalance between caloric intake and energy expenditure, the drivers of each of these may be laid down before the manifestation of the phenotype. We present evidence over the last half-century that suggests that the temporospatial evolution of obesity from intrauterine life and beyond is, in part, due to the conditioning of physiological processes at critical developmental periods that results in maladaptive responses to obesogenic exposures later in life. We begin the review by introducing studies that describe an association between perinatal factors and later risk of obesity. After a brief discussion of the pathogenesis of obesity, including the systemic regulation of appetite, adiposity, and basal metabolic rate, we delve into the mechanics of how intrauterine, postnatal and early childhood metabolic environments may contribute to adult obesity risk through the process of metabolic conditioning. Finally, we detail the specific epigenetic pathways identified both in preclinical and clinical studies that synergistically "program" obesity.
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- Ananthi Rajamoorthi
- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
- The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University IRVING Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
- The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University IRVING Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
- Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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Litter Size Reduction as a Model of Overfeeding during Lactation and Its Consequences for the Development of Metabolic Diseases in the Offspring. Nutrients 2022; 14:nu14102045. [PMID: 35631188 PMCID: PMC9145223 DOI: 10.3390/nu14102045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Revised: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Overfeeding during lactation has a deleterious impact on the baby’s health throughout life. In humans, early overnutrition has been associated with higher susceptibility to obesity and metabolic disorders in childhood and adulthood. In rodents, using a rodent litter size reduction model (small litter) to mimic early overfeeding, the same metabolic profile has been described. Therefore, the rodent small litter model is an efficient tool to investigate the adaptive mechanisms involved in obesogenesis. Besides central and metabolic dysfunctions, studies have pointed to the contribution of the endocrine system to the small litter phenotype. Hormones, especially leptin, insulin, and adrenal hormones, have been associated with satiety, glucose homeostasis, and adipogenesis, while hypothyroidism impairs energy metabolism, favoring obesity. Behavioral modifications, hepatic metabolism changes, and reproductive dysfunctions have also been reported. In this review, we update these findings, highlighting the interaction of early nutrition and the adaptive features of the endocrine system. We also report the sex-related differences and epigenetic mechanisms. This model highlights the intense plasticity during lactation triggering many adaptive responses, which are the basis of the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) concept. Our review demonstrates the complexity of the adaptive mechanisms involved in the obesity phenotype promoted by early overnutrition, reinforcing the necessity of adequate nutritional habits during lactation.
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Rasmussen JM, Thompson PM, Entringer S, Buss C, Wadhwa PD. Fetal programming of human energy homeostasis brain networks: Issues and considerations. Obes Rev 2022; 23:e13392. [PMID: 34845821 DOI: 10.1111/obr.13392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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In this paper, we present a transdisciplinary framework and testable hypotheses regarding the process of fetal programming of energy homeostasis brain circuitry. Our model proposes that key aspects of energy homeostasis brain circuitry already are functional by the time of birth (with substantial interindividual variation); that this phenotypic variation at birth is an important determinant of subsequent susceptibility for energy imbalance and childhood obesity risk; and that this brain circuitry exhibits developmental plasticity, in that it is influenced by conditions during intrauterine life, particularly maternal-placental-fetal endocrine, immune/inflammatory, and metabolic processes and their upstream determinants. We review evidence that supports the scientific premise for each element of this formulation, identify future research directions, particularly recent advances that may facilitate a better quantification of the ontogeny of energy homeostasis brain networks, highlight animal and in vitro-based approaches that may better address the determinants of interindividual variation in energy homeostasis brain networks, and discuss the implications of this formulation for the development of strategies targeted towards the primary prevention of childhood obesity.
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- Jerod M Rasmussen
- Development, Health and Disease Research Program, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Development, Health and Disease Research Program, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.,Department of Medical Psychology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Development, Health and Disease Research Program, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.,Department of Medical Psychology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Development, Health and Disease Research Program, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.,Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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Rodrigues VST, Moura EG, Peixoto TC, Soares P, Lopes BP, Bertasso IM, Silva BS, Cabral S, Kluck GEG, Atella GC, Trindade PL, Daleprane JB, Oliveira E, Lisboa PC. The model of litter size reduction induces long-term disruption of the gut-brain axis: An explanation for the hyperphagia of Wistar rats of both sexes. Physiol Rep 2022; 10:e15191. [PMID: 35146951 PMCID: PMC8831958 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 04/26/2023] Open
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The gut microbiota affects the host's metabolic phenotype, impacting health and disease. The gut-brain axis unites the intestine with the centers of hunger and satiety, affecting the eating behavior. Deregulation of this axis can lead to obesity onset. Litter size reduction is a well-studied model for infant obesity because it causes overnutrition and programs for obesity. We hypothesize that animals raised in small litters (SL) have altered circuitry between the intestine and brain, causing hyperphagia. We investigated vagus nerve activity, the expression of c-Fos, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), gastrointestinal (GI) hormone receptors, and content of bacterial phyla and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in the feces of adult male and female Wistar rats overfed during lactation. On the 3rd day after birth, litter size was reduced to 3 pups/litter (SL males or SL females) until weaning. Controls had normal litter size (10 pups/litter: 5 males and 5 females). The rats were killed at 5 months of age. The male and female offspring were analyzed separately. The SL group of both sexes showed higher food consumption and body adiposity than the respective controls. SL animals presented dysbiosis (increased Firmicutes, decreased Bacteroidetes) and had increased vagus nerve activity. Only the SL males had decreased hypothalamic GLP-1 receptor expression, while only the SL females had lower acetate and propionate in the feces and higher CCK receptor expression in the hypothalamus. Thus, overfeeding during lactation differentially changes the gut-brain axis, contributing to hyperphagia of the offspring of both sexes.
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- Vanessa S. T. Rodrigues
- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyBiology InstituteState University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyBiology InstituteState University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyBiology InstituteState University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyBiology InstituteState University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyBiology InstituteState University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyBiology InstituteState University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyBiology InstituteState University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Lipids and Lipoprotein BiochemistryBiochemistry InstituteFederal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Lipids and Lipoprotein BiochemistryBiochemistry InstituteFederal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Lipids and Lipoprotein BiochemistryBiochemistry InstituteFederal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory for studies of Interactions between Nutrition and GeneticsNutrition InstituteRio de Janeiro State UniversityRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory for studies of Interactions between Nutrition and GeneticsNutrition InstituteRio de Janeiro State UniversityRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyBiology InstituteState University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyBiology InstituteState University of Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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The associations between maternal BMI and gestational weight gain and health outcomes in offspring at age 1 and 7 years. Sci Rep 2021; 11:20865. [PMID: 34675369 PMCID: PMC8531053 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99869-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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In secondary analyses of a randomised controlled trial of exercise during pregnancy, we examined associations between mid-pregnancy maternal body mass index (BMI) and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) with offspring health. Follow-up data were available on 57 mother–child pairs at 1-year and 52 pairs at 7-year follow-ups. Clinical assessments included body composition and fasting blood tests. At age 1 year, increased maternal BMI in mid-gestation was associated with greater weight standard deviation scores (SDS) in the offspring (p = 0.035), with no observed associations for excessive GWG. At age 7 years, greater maternal BMI was associated with increased weight SDS (p < 0.001), BMI SDS (p = 0.005), and total body fat percentage (p = 0.037) in their children. Irrespective of maternal BMI, children born to mothers with excessive GWG had greater abdominal adiposity (p = 0.043) and less favourable lipid profile (lower HDL-C and higher triglycerides). At 7 years, maternal BMI and excessive GWG had compounded adverse associations with offspring adiposity. Compared to offspring of mothers with overweight/obesity plus excessive GWG, children of normal-weight mothers with adequate and excessive GWG were 0.97 and 0.64 SDS lighter (p = 0.002 and p = 0.014, respectively), and 0.98 and 0.63 SDS leaner (p = 0.001 and p = 0.014, respectively). Both greater maternal BMI in mid-pregnancy and excessive GWG were independently associated with increased adiposity in offspring at 7 years.
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Deal CK, Volkoff H. Response of the thyroid axis and appetite-regulating peptides to fasting and overfeeding in goldfish (Carassius auratus). Mol Cell Endocrinol 2021; 528:111229. [PMID: 33662475 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2021.111229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2020] [Revised: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The thyroid axis is a major regulator of metabolism and energy homeostasis in vertebrates. There is conclusive evidence in mammals for the involvement of the thyroid axis in the regulation of food intake, but in fish, this link is unclear. In order to assess the effects of nutritional status on the thyroid axis in goldfish, Carassius auratus, we examined brain and peripheral transcripts of genes associated with the thyroid axis [thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), thyrotropin-releasing hormone receptors (TRH-R type 1 and 2), thyroid stimulating hormone beta (TSHβ), deiodinase enzymes (DIO2, DIO3) and UDP-glucoronsyltransferase (UGT)] and appetite regulators [neuropeptide Y (NPY), proopiomelanocortin (POMC), agouti-related peptide (AgRP) and cholecystokinin (CCK)] in fasted and overfed fish for 7 and 14 day periods. We show that the thyroid axis responds to overfeeding, with an increase of brain TRH and TSHβ mRNA expression after 14 days, suggesting that overfeeding might activate the thyroid axis. In fasted fish, hepatic DIO3 and UGT transcripts were downregulated from 7 to 14 days, suggesting a time-dependent inhibition of thyroid hormone degradation pathways. Nutritional status had no effect on circulating levels of thyroid hormone. Central appetite-regulating peptides exhibited temporal changes in mRNA expression, with decreased expression of the appetite-inhibiting peptide POMC from 7 to 14 days for both fasted and overfed fish, with no change in central NPY or AgRP, or intestinal CCK transcript expression. Compared to control fish, fasting increased AgRP mRNA expression at both 7 and 14 days, and POMC expression was higher than controls only at 7 days. Our results indicate that nutritional status time-dependently affects the thyroid axis and appetite regulators, although no clear correlation between thyroid physiology and appetite regulators could be established. Our study helps to fill a knowledge gap in current fish endocrinological research on the effects of energy balance on thyroid metabolism and function.
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- Cole K Deal
- Departments of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X9, Canada
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- Departments of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X9, Canada; Departments of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X9, Canada.
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Schumacher R, Rossetti MF, Lazzarino GP, Canesini G, García AP, Stoker C, Andreoli MF, Ramos JG. Temporary effects of neonatal overfeeding on homeostatic control of food intake involve alterations in POMC promoter methylation in male rats. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2021; 522:111123. [PMID: 33338550 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2020.111123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Revised: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A small litter (SL) model was used to determine how neonatal overfeeding affects the homeostatic control of food intake in male rats at weaning and postnatal day (PND) 90. At PND4, litters were reduced to small (4 pups/dam) or normal (10 pups/dam) litters. At weaning, SL rats showed higher body weight and characteristic features of the metabolic syndrome. Gene expression of pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript, neuropeptide Y (NPY) and leptin and ghrelin (GHSR) receptors were increased and POMC promoter was hypomethylated in arcuate nucleus, indicating that the early development of obesity may involve the GHSR/NPY system and changes in POMC methylation state. At PND90, body weight, metabolic parameters and gene expression were restored; however, POMC methylation state remained altered. This work provides insight into the effects of neonatal overfeeding, showing the importance of developmental plasticity in restoring early changes in central pathways involved in metabolic programming.
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- Rocio Schumacher
- Instituto de Salud y Ambiente del Litoral (ISAL), Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa-CONICET, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Salud y Ambiente del Litoral (ISAL), Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa-CONICET, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina; Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica y Cuantitativa, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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- Centro de Neurociencia Social y Afectiva, Departamento de Medicina Clínica y Experimental, Universidad de Linköping, 58x xx, Linköping, Suecia.
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- Instituto de Salud y Ambiente del Litoral (ISAL), Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa-CONICET, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Salud y Ambiente del Litoral (ISAL), Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa-CONICET, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Salud y Ambiente del Litoral (ISAL), Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa-CONICET, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina; Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica y Cuantitativa, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Desarrollo e Investigaciones Pediátricas (IDIP), Hospital de niños de La Plata y Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC-PBA), 1900, La Plata, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Salud y Ambiente del Litoral (ISAL), Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa-CONICET, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina; Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica y Cuantitativa, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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Parra-Vargas M, Ramon-Krauel M, Lerin C, Jimenez-Chillaron JC. Size Does Matter: Litter Size Strongly Determines Adult Metabolism in Rodents. Cell Metab 2020; 32:334-340. [PMID: 32814016 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2020.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In this essay, we highlight how litter size in rodents is a strong determinant of neonatal growth and long-term metabolic health. Based on these effects, we strongly advise that scientific articles that utilize rodent models for obesity and metabolic research should include information on the litter sizes in the study to increase the data transparency of such reports.
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- Marcela Parra-Vargas
- Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Endocrinology, c/ Santa Rosa 39-57, 4ª planta, Esplugues, 08950 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Endocrinology, c/ Santa Rosa 39-57, 4ª planta, Esplugues, 08950 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Endocrinology, c/ Santa Rosa 39-57, 4ª planta, Esplugues, 08950 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Endocrinology, c/ Santa Rosa 39-57, 4ª planta, Esplugues, 08950 Barcelona, Spain.
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Navarro VM. Metabolic regulation of kisspeptin - the link between energy balance and reproduction. Nat Rev Endocrinol 2020; 16:407-420. [PMID: 32427949 PMCID: PMC8852368 DOI: 10.1038/s41574-020-0363-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Hypothalamic kisspeptin neurons serve as the nodal regulatory centre of reproductive function. These neurons are subjected to a plethora of regulatory factors that ultimately affect the release of kisspeptin, which modulates gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) release from GnRH neurons to control the reproductive axis. The presence of sufficient energy reserves is critical to achieve successful reproduction. Consequently, metabolic factors impose a very tight control over kisspeptin synthesis and release. This Review offers a synoptic overview of the different steps in which kisspeptin neurons are subjected to metabolic regulation, from early developmental stages to adulthood. We cover an ample array of known mechanisms that underlie the metabolic regulation of KISS1 expression and kisspeptin release. Furthermore, the novel role of kisspeptin neurons as active players within the neuronal circuits that govern energy balance is discussed, offering evidence of a bidirectional role of these neurons as a nexus between metabolism and reproduction.
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- Víctor M Navarro
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Harvard Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Boston, MA, USA.
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Marangon PB, Mecawi AS, Antunes-Rodrigues J, Elias LLK. Perinatal over- and underfeeding affect hypothalamic leptin and ghrelin neuroendocrine responses in adult rats. Physiol Behav 2020; 215:112793. [PMID: 31874179 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.112793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2019] [Revised: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Changes in the nutritional supply during the perinatal period can lead to metabolic disturbances and obesity in adulthood. OBJECTIVE The divergent litter size model was used to investigate the hypothalamic sensitivity to leptin and ghrelin as well as the mechanisms involved in the disruption of food intake and energy expenditure. METHODS On postnatal day 3 (P3), male Wistar rats were divided into 3 groups: small litter (SL - 3 pups), normal litter (NL - 10 pups), and large litter (LL - 16 pups). Animals at P60 were intraperitoneally treated with leptin (500 µg/Kg), ghrelin (40 µg/Kg), or vehicle (0.9% NaCl) at 5 pm and the following parameters were assessed: food intake and body weight; immunostaining of p-STAT-3 in the hypothalamus; Western Blotting analysis of p-AMPKα and UCP2 in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH), and UCP1 in the interscapular brown adipose tissue (BAT); or heat production, VO2, VCO2, and locomotor activity. RESULTS SL rats had earlier leptin and ghrelin surges, while LL rats had no variations. At P60, after leptin treatment, LL rats showed hypophagia and increased p-STAT-3 expression in the arcuate nucleus, but SL rats had no response. After ghrelin treatment, LL rats did not have the orexigenic response or AMPKα phosphorylation in the MBH, while SL animals, unexpectedly, decreased body weight gain, without changes in food intake, and increased metabolic parameters and UCP1 expression in the BAT. CONCLUSIONS Changes in the nutritional supply at early stages of life modify leptin and ghrelin responsiveness in adulthood, programming metabolic and central mechanisms, which contribute to overweight and obesity in adulthood.
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- Paula B Marangon
- Department of Physiology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biophysics, Paulista School of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Schellong K, Melchior K, Ziska T, Henrich W, Rancourt RC, Plagemann A. Sex-specific epigenetic alterations of the hypothalamic Agrp-Pomc system do not explain 'diabesity' in the offspring of high-fat diet (HFD) overfed maternal rats. J Nutr Biochem 2019; 75:108257. [PMID: 31710935 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2019.108257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Revised: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 10/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Maternal high-fat diet (HFD) overfeeding pre- and during pregnancy and lactation may 'program' a 'diabesity' predisposition in the offspring, for inconclusive reasons. Acquired alterations of the hypothalamic promoter methylation and mRNA expression of the satiety neurohormone Pomc are possibly of critical importance here. We investigated within one developmental approach, including male and female rats, the sex-specific DNA methylation pattern and corresponding mRNA expression of both Pomc and its endogenous functional antagonist Agrp in the hypothalamus of adult HFD offspring. Obesity and diabetic disturbances occurred in both male and female HFD offspring, accompanied by altered Pomc promoter methylation pattern. However, this was not related to significant Pomc mRNA expression alterations. In contrast, male-specific alterations of Agrp promoter methylation were found, even associated with reduced mRNA expression of this orexigenic/anabolic Pomc antagonist. In conclusion, acquired epigenetic alterations of the hypothalamic Agrp-Pomc system hardly explain the 'diabesity' phenotype in HFD offspring, while distinct vulnerability and functionality of Agrp promoter and related genomic regions methylation should be further investigated.
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- Karen Schellong
- Division of 'Experimental Obstetrics', Clinic of Obstetrics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of 'Experimental Obstetrics', Clinic of Obstetrics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of 'Experimental Obstetrics', Clinic of Obstetrics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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- Clinic of Obstetrics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of 'Experimental Obstetrics', Clinic of Obstetrics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany.
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- Division of 'Experimental Obstetrics', Clinic of Obstetrics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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Feeding circuit development and early-life influences on future feeding behaviour. Nat Rev Neurosci 2019; 19:302-316. [PMID: 29662204 DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2018.23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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A wide range of maternal exposures - undernutrition, obesity, diabetes, stress and infection - are associated with an increased risk of metabolic disease in offspring. Developmental influences can cause persistent structural changes in hypothalamic circuits regulating food intake in the service of energy balance. The physiological relevance of these alterations has been called into question because maternal impacts on daily caloric intake do not persist to adulthood. Recent behavioural and epidemiological studies in humans provide evidence that the relative contribution of appetitive traits related to satiety, reward and the emotional aspects of food intake regulation changes across the lifespan. This Opinion article outlines a neurodevelopmental framework to explore the possibility that crosstalk between developing circuits regulating different modalities of food intake shapes future behavioural responses to environmental challenges.
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Soch A, Sominsky L, De Luca SN, Spencer SJ. Obesity after neonatal overfeeding is independent of hypothalamic microgliosis. J Neuroendocrinol 2019; 31:e12757. [PMID: 31233242 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The early-life environment is important in programming brain development, and metabolic disruptions at this time can have long-lasting effects. Previously, we have shown that rats overfed for the first 3 weeks of their neonatal life maintain obesity into adulthood. Neonatal overfeeding also leads to primed hypothalamic and hippocampal microglia that are hyper-responsive to an immune challenge in adulthood. However, whether this microglial priming contributes to the obese phenotype and whether it is possible to reverse either the obesity or the microglial priming are not clear. In the present study, we hypothesised that an intervention with minocycline during the juvenile period (postnatal day 21-42) would normalise both the microglial priming and obesity. To induce obesity in neonatal Wistar rats, we manipulated the litter sizes in which they were suckled, yielding litters of 12 (control-fed) or four (neonatally overfed). After weaning, we administered minocycline i.p. every second day for a 3-week period and examined body composition and microglial profiles 24 hours following an immune challenge with lipopolysaccharide. As demonstrated previously, neonatal overfeeding resulted in prolonged weight gain. However, minocycline failed to reverse this effect. Minocycline did reverse microglial priming in feeding-related regions of the hypothalamus, with minimal effects on pro-inflammatory cytokines and on microglial number and morphology in the hippocampus. Thus, the programming effect of neonatal overfeeding on microglial priming can be ameliorated by minocycline later in life. However, the persistent obesity seen after neonatal overfeeding is likely not driven by changes in hypothalamic inflammation and microglial activity.
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- Alita Soch
- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Glavas MM, Hui Q, Tudurí E, Erener S, Kasteel NL, Johnson JD, Kieffer TJ. Early overnutrition reduces Pdx1 expression and induces β cell failure in Swiss Webster mice. Sci Rep 2019; 9:3619. [PMID: 30842440 PMCID: PMC6403421 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39177-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2018] [Accepted: 01/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Childhood obesity and early rapid growth increase the risk for type 2 diabetes. Such early overnutrition can be modeled in mice by reducing litter size. We investigated the effects of early overnutrition and increased dietary fat intake on β cell function in Swiss Webster mice. On a moderate-fat diet, early overnutrition accelerated weight gain and induced hyperinsulinemia in pups. Early overnutrition males exhibited higher β cell mass but reduced islet insulin content and Pdx1 expression. Males had a high diabetes incidence that was increased by early overnutrition, characterized by a progressive increase in insulin secretion as well as β cell death, indicated by histological analysis and increased circulating miR-375 levels. Females maintained normoglycemia throughout life. High-fat diet (HFD) increased diabetes incidence in males, whereas low-fat diet was completely protective. This protective effect was abolished in early overnutrition males transiently exposed to HFD in early life. Although Swiss Webster mice are not known to be diabetes-prone, the high diabetes incidence suggests an underlying genetic susceptibility that can be induced by overnutrition and increased dietary fat intake in early life. Thus, the nutritional environment in early life may impact long-term β cell function and increase diabetes risk, particularly in genetically susceptible individuals.
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- Maria M Glavas
- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y , Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. .,Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Aylwin CF, Toro CA, Shirtcliff E, Lomniczi A. Emerging Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms Underlying Pubertal Maturation in Adolescence. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE 2019; 29:54-79. [PMID: 30869843 DOI: 10.1111/jora.12385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The adolescent transition begins with the onset of puberty which, upstream in the brain, is initiated by the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) pulse generator that activates the release of peripheral sex hormones. Substantial research in human and animal models has revealed a myriad of cellular networks and heritable genes that control the GnRH pulse generator allowing the individual to begin the process of reproductive competence and sexual maturation. Here, we review the latest knowledge in neuroendocrine pubertal research with emphasis on genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying the pubertal transition.
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Pedroza A, Ferreira DS, Santana DF, da Silva PT, de Aguiar Júnior FCA, Sellitti DF, Lagranha CJ. A maternal low-protein diet and neonatal overnutrition result in similar changes to glomerular morphology and renal cortical oxidative stress measures in male Wistar rats. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 2019; 44:164-171. [DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2018-0288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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There is a strong correlation between inadequate gestational and postpartum nutrition and the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases. The present study investigated the effects of a maternal low-protein diet and neonatal overfeeding on the oxidative balance and morphology of the renal cortex of male Wistar rats. Two independent protocols were used. First, pregnant Wistar rats received diets containing either 17% (normal protein) or 8% (low protein) casein throughout pregnancy and lactation. Second, the litter size was reduced by one-third on the third postnatal day to induce overnourishment in offspring. At 30 days, the oxidative balance and morphology of the renal cortex were analyzed. There was a small but significant increase in renal corpuscle area in the low protein (LP, 5%) and overnutrition (ON, 8%) groups. Glomerular tuft area also increased in LP (6%) and ON (9%), as did glomerular cellularity (LP, +11%; ON, +12%). In the oxidative stress analyses, both nutritional insults significantly elevated lipid peroxidation (LP, +18%; ON, +135%) and protein oxidation (LP, +40%; ON, +65%) while significantly reducing nonenzymatic antioxidant defenses, measured as reduced glutathione (LP, –32%; ON, –45%) and total thiol content (LP, –28%; ON, –24%). We also observed a decrease in superoxide dismutase (LP, –78%; ON, –51%), catalase (LP, –18%; ON, –61%), and glutathione S-transferase (only in ON, –44%) activities. Our results demonstrate that nutritional insults, even those of a very different nature, during perinatal development can result in similar changes in oxidative parameters and glomerular morphology in the renal cortex.
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- Anderson Pedroza
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Exercise Biochemistry, Academic Center of Vitoria, Federal University of Pernambuco, Vitoria de Santo Antao, 55608-680, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Exercise Biochemistry, Academic Center of Vitoria, Federal University of Pernambuco, Vitoria de Santo Antao, 55608-680, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Exercise Biochemistry, Academic Center of Vitoria, Federal University of Pernambuco, Vitoria de Santo Antao, 55608-680, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Academic Center of Vitoria, Federal University of Pernambuco, Vitoria de Santo Antao, 55608-680, Brazil
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799, USA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Exercise Biochemistry, Academic Center of Vitoria, Federal University of Pernambuco, Vitoria de Santo Antao, 55608-680, Brazil
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Bohlen TM, Silveira MA, Buonfiglio DDC, Ferreira-Neto HC, Cipolla-Neto J, Donato J, Frazao R. A Short-Day Photoperiod Delays the Timing of Puberty in Female Mice via Changes in the Kisspeptin System. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2018; 9:44. [PMID: 29515520 PMCID: PMC5826198 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The reproduction of seasonal breeders is modulated by exposure to light in an interval of 24 h defined as photoperiod. The interruption of reproductive functions in seasonally breeding rodents is accompanied by the suppression of the Kiss1 gene expression, which is known to be essential for reproduction. In non-seasonal male rodents, such as rats and mice, short-day photoperiod (SP) conditions or exogenous melatonin treatment also have anti-gonadotropic effects; however, whether photoperiod is able to modulate the puberty onset or Kiss1 gene expression in mice is unknown. In the present study, we investigated whether photoperiodism influences the sexual maturation of female mice via changes in the kisspeptin system. We observed that SP condition delayed the timing of puberty in female mice, decreased the hypothalamic expression of genes related to the reproductive axis and reduced the number of Kiss1-expressing neurons in the rostral hypothalamus. However, SP also reduced the body weight gain during development and affected the expression of neuropeptides involved in the energy balance regulation. When body weight was recovered via a reduction in litter size, the timing of puberty in mice born and raised in SP was advanced and the effects in hypothalamic mRNA expression were reverted. These results suggest that the SP delays the timing of puberty in female mice via changes in the kisspeptin system, although the effects on hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis are likely secondary to changes in body weight gain.
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- Tabata Mariz Bohlen
- Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- *Correspondence: Renata Frazao,
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Sominsky L, Ziko I, Nguyen TX, Quach J, Spencer SJ. Hypothalamic effects of neonatal diet: reversible and only partially leptin dependent. J Endocrinol 2017; 234:41-56. [PMID: 28455431 DOI: 10.1530/joe-16-0631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Early life diet influences metabolic programming, increasing the risk for long-lasting metabolic ill health. Neonatally overfed rats have an early increase in leptin that is maintained long term and is associated with a corresponding elevation in body weight. However, the immediate and long-term effects of neonatal overfeeding on hypothalamic anorexigenic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) and orexigenic agouti-related peptide (AgRP)/neuropeptide Y (NPY) circuitry, and if these are directly mediated by leptin, have not yet been examined. Here, we examined the effects of neonatal overfeeding on leptin-mediated development of hypothalamic POMC and AgRP/NPY neurons and whether these effects can be normalised by neonatal leptin antagonism in male Wistar rats. Neonatal overfeeding led to an acute (neonatal) resistance of hypothalamic neurons to exogenous leptin, but this leptin resistance was resolved by adulthood. While there were no effects of neonatal overfeeding on POMC immunoreactivity in neonates or adults, the neonatal overfeeding-induced early increase in arcuate nucleus (ARC) AgRP/NPY fibres was reversed by adulthood so that neonatally overfed adults had reduced NPY immunoreactivity in the ARC compared with controls, with no further differences in AgRP immunoreactivity. Short-term neonatal leptin antagonism did not reverse the excess body weight or hyperleptinaemia in the neonatally overfed, suggesting factors other than leptin may also contribute to the phenotype. Our findings show that changes in the availability of leptin during early life period influence the development of hypothalamic connectivity short term, but this is partly resolved by adulthood indicating an adaptation to the metabolic mal-programming effects of neonatal overfeeding.
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- Luba Sominsky
- School of Health and Biomedical SciencesRMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical SciencesRMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical SciencesRMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical SciencesRMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical SciencesRMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Novelle MG, Vázquez MJ, Peinado JR, Martinello KD, López M, Luckman SM, Tena-Sempere M, Malagón MM, Nogueiras R, Diéguez C. Sequential Exposure to Obesogenic Factors in Females Rats: From Physiological Changes to Lipid Metabolism in Liver and Mesenteric Adipose Tissue. Sci Rep 2017; 7:46194. [PMID: 28387334 PMCID: PMC5384043 DOI: 10.1038/srep46194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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During their lifetime, females are subjected to different nutritional and hormonal factors that could increase the risk of obesity and associated comorbidities. From early postnatal periods until the postmenopausal phase, exposure to over nutrition, high-energy diet and oestrogen deficiency, are considered as significant obesity risk factors in women. In this study, we assessed how key transitional life events and exposure to different nutrition influence energy homeostasis in a rat model. Specifically, we assessed the sequential exposure to postnatal over nutrition, high-fat diet (HFD) after weaning, followed later by ovariectomy (OVX; as a model of menopause). Each obesity risk factor increased significantly body weight (BW) and adiposity, with additive effects after sequential exposure. Increased energy intake in both HFD and/or OVX groups, and decreased locomotor activity and energy expenditure after OVX can explain these metabolic changes. Our study also documents decreased lipogenic pathway in mesenteric adipose tissue after HFD and/or OVX, independent of previous postnatal programming, yet only HFD evoked this effect in liver. In addition, we report an increase in the expression of the hepatic PEPCK depending on previous metabolic status. Overall, our results identify the impact of different risk factors, which will help in understanding the development of obesity in females.
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- Marta G Novelle
- Department of Physiology, CIMUS, University of Santiago de Compostela-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, AV Hill Building, Manchester, UK
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- Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofia University Hospital, Edificio IMIBIC, Avda. Menéndez Pidal s/n, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.,Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Department of Physiology, CIMUS, University of Santiago de Compostela-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Physiology, CIMUS, University of Santiago de Compostela-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, AV Hill Building, Manchester, UK
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- Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofia University Hospital, Edificio IMIBIC, Avda. Menéndez Pidal s/n, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.,Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofia University Hospital, Edificio IMIBIC, Avda. Menéndez Pidal s/n, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.,Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Department of Physiology, CIMUS, University of Santiago de Compostela-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Physiology, CIMUS, University of Santiago de Compostela-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Histological and Metabolic State of Dams Suckling Small Litter or MSG-Treated Pups. ScientificWorldJournal 2016; 2016:1678541. [PMID: 28004032 PMCID: PMC5149680 DOI: 10.1155/2016/1678541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2016] [Revised: 06/13/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Lactation is an important function that is dependent on changes in the maternal homeostasis and sustained by histological maternal adjustments. We evaluated how offspring manipulations during the lactational phase can modulate maternal morphologic aspects in the mammary gland, adipose tissue, and pancreatic islets of lactating dams. Two different models of litter-manipulation-during-lactation were used: litter sizes, small litters (SL) or normal litters (NL) and subcutaneous injections in the puppies of monosodium glutamate (MSG), or saline (CON). SL Dams and MSG Dams presented an increase in WAT content and higher plasma levels of glucose, triglycerides, and insulin, in relation to NL Dams and CON Dams, respectively. The MG of SL Dams and MSG Dams presented a high adipocyte content and reduced alveoli development and the milk of the SL Dams presented a higher calorie and triglyceride content, compared to that of the NL Dams. SL Dams presented a reduction in islet size and greater lipid droplet accumulation in BAT, in relation to NL Dams. SL Dams and MSG Dams present similar responses to offspring manipulation during lactation, resulting in changes in metabolic parameters. These alterations were associated with higher fat accumulation in BAT and changes in milk composition only in SL Dams.
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El-Haddad MA, Desai M, Gayle D, Ross MG. In Utero Development of Fetal Thirst and Appetite: Potential for Programming. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 11:123-30. [PMID: 15051031 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsgi.2003.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Thirst and appetite-mediated ingestive behavior develop and are likely programmed in utero, thus preparing for newborn and adult ingestive behavior. Fetal swallowing activity is markedly different from that of the adult, as spontaneous fetal swallowing occurs at a markedly (six-fold) higher rate compared with spontaneous adult drinking activity. This high rate of fetal swallowing is critical for the regulation of amniotic fluid volume and the development of the fetal gastrointestinal tract. Disordered fetal swallowing has been associated with both a decrease (oligohydramnios) and increase (polyhydramnios) in amniotic fluid volume. Both conditions are associated with a significant increase in perinatal morbidity and mortality, and limited treatment modalities are currently available. The mechanisms underlying the high rate of human fetal swallowing are regulated, in part, by tonic activity of central angiotensin II, glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors, and neuronal nitric oxide synthase. Fetal hypertonicity-mediated dipsogenesis is likely programmed in utero, as offspring of water-restricted ewes demonstrate a programmed syndrome of plasma hypertonicity, with significant hematologic and cardiovascular alterations. Similar to dipsogenic mechanisms, peripheral and central fetal orexic mechanisms also develop in utero, as demonstrated by increased fetal swallowing after both oral sucrose infusion and central injection of neuropeptide Y. The role of leptin in regulating fetal ingestive behavior is interesting because, contrary to actions in adults, leptin does not suppress fetal ingestive behavior. Teleologically, this may be of value during the newborn period, as unopposed appetite stimulatory mechanisms may facilitate rapid fetal and newborn weight gain. An adverse intrauterine environment, with altered fetal orexic factors during the critical developmental period of fetal life, may alter the normal setpoints of appetitive behavior and potentially lead to programming of adulthood hyperphagia and obesity. Further research is needed to delineate the mechanistic relationship between the intrauterine environment and the development of the setpoints of adult appetite and thirst.
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- M A El-Haddad
- Perinatal Research Laboratories, Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Conceição EPS, Moura EG, Manhães AC, Carvalho JC, Nobre JL, Oliveira E, Lisboa PC. Calcium reduces vitamin D and glucocorticoid receptors in the visceral fat of obese male rats. J Endocrinol 2016; 230:263-74. [PMID: 27325245 DOI: 10.1530/joe-16-0041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2016] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Rats overfed during lactation show higher visceral adipose tissue (VAT) mass and metabolic dysfunctions at adulthood. As both vitamin D and glucocorticoids change adipogenesis, parameters related to metabolism and action of these hormones in the adipocyte can be altered in rats raised in small litters (SL). We also studied the antiobesity effects of high calcium diet since it decreases visceral fat in obesity models. On postnatal day (PN) 3, litter size was adjusted to 3pups/dam (SL) to induce overfeeding. Control litters (NL) remained with 10pups/dam until weaning. From PN120 to PN180, half of the SL rats were fed standard chow (SL) and the other half was fed a calcium-supplemented chow (SL-Ca, 10g CaCO3/kg). Both SL groups were heavier and hyperphagic when compared with the NL group; however, SL-Ca rats ate less than SL. SL-Ca rats had decreased VAT mass and adipocyte size, associated with lower hypothalamic NPY content, VAT fat acid synthase content and leptinemia. At PN120, SL rats had increased plasma 25(OH)D3, Cyp27b1 mRNA and glucocorticoid receptor (GR-α) in the VAT, but lower vitamin D receptor (Vdr) mRNA. At PN180, Cyp27b1 and GR-α remained higher, while Vdr normalized in SL rats. SL-Ca rats had normal VAT Cyp27b1 and GR-α, but lower Vdr Thus, higher body mass and glucocorticoid receptors in the VAT of SL rats are normalized by calcium-enriched diet, and Vdr expression in this tissue is reduced, suggesting a possible role of glucocorticoids and vitamin D in calcium action in the adipocyte.
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- E P S Conceição
- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Roberto Alcantara Gomes Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Roberto Alcantara Gomes Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of NeurophysiologyDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Roberto Alcantara Gomes Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Roberto Alcantara Gomes Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Roberto Alcantara Gomes Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Roberto Alcantara Gomes Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine PhysiologyDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Roberto Alcantara Gomes Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Wood CT, Skinner AC, Yin HS, Rothman RL, Sanders LM, Delamater AM, Perrin EM. Bottle Size and Weight Gain in Formula-Fed Infants. Pediatrics 2016; 138:peds.2015-4538. [PMID: 27273748 PMCID: PMC4925078 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-4538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Formula-fed infants may be at greater risk for overfeeding and rapid weight gain. Different size bottles are used for feeding infants, although little is known about whether bottle size is related to weight gain in bottle-fed infants. METHODS Data from the Greenlight Intervention Study, a cluster randomized trial to prevent childhood obesity at 4 pediatric resident clinics, were used to analyze the exposure to regular (<6 oz) or large (≥6 oz) bottle size at the 2-month visit on changes in weight, weight-for-age z score (WAZ), and weight-for-length z score (WLZ) at the 6-month visit. Using multivariable regression, we adjusted for potential confounders (birth weight, gender, age, weight measures at 2 months, parent race/ethnicity, education, household income and size, time between 2- and 6-month visits, and first child status). RESULTS Forty-five percent (n = 386; 41% black, 35% Hispanic, 23% white, 2% other) of infants at the 2-month visit were exclusively formula-fed, and 44% used large (≥6 oz) bottles. Infants whose parents fed with large bottles had 0.21 kg (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.05 to 0.37) more weight change, 0.24 U (95% CI: 0.07 to 0.41) more change in WAZ, and 0.31 U (95% CI: 0.08 to 0.54) more change in WLZ during this period than infants fed with regular bottles. CONCLUSIONS Using a large bottle in early infancy independently contributed to greater weight gain and change in WLZ at the 6-month visit. Although growth in infancy is complex, bottle size may be a modifiable risk factor for rapid infant weight gain and later obesity among exclusively formula-fed infants.
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- Charles T. Wood
- Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina;,Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Duke Clinical Research Institute and Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center, New York University, New York, New York
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- Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Pediatrics, Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention, Stanford University, Stanford, California; and
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Bollwein H, Janett F, Kaske M. Impact of nutritional programming on the growth, health, and sexual development of bull calves. Domest Anim Endocrinol 2016; 56 Suppl:S180-90. [PMID: 27345315 DOI: 10.1016/j.domaniend.2016.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2015] [Revised: 02/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The growth, health, and reproductive performance of bull calves are important prerequisites for a successful cattle breeding program. Therefore, several attempts have been made to improve these parameters via nutritional programming. Although an increase in energy uptake during the postweaning period (7-8 mo of age) of the calves leads to a faster growing rate, it has no positive effects on sexual development. In contrast, a high-nutrition diet during the prepubertal period (8-20 wk of age) reduced the age at puberty of the bulls and increased the size and/or weight of the testis and the epididymal sperm reserves. This faster sexual development is associated with an increased transient LH peak, which seems to be mediated by an increase in serum IGF-I concentrations. However, the exact mechanisms responsible for the interaction between nutrition and the subsequent development of the calves are not clear. The sexual development of bull calves depends not only on the nutrition of the calves after birth but also on the feed intake of their mothers during pregnancy. In contrast to the effects of the feed intake of the bull calves, a high-nutrition diet fed to the mother during the first trimester has negative effects on the reproductive performance of their offspring. In conclusion, it has been clearly demonstrated that growth, health, and reproductive performance can be improved by nutritional programming, but further studies are necessary to obtain a better understanding about the mechanisms responsible for this phenomenon.
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- H Bollwein
- Clinic of Reproductive Medicine, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zurich.
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- Clinic of Reproductive Medicine, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zurich
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- Clinic of Reproductive Medicine, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zurich
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Argente-Arizón P, Ros P, Díaz F, Fuente-Martin E, Castro-González D, Sánchez-Garrido MÁ, Barrios V, Tena-Sempere M, Argente J, Chowen JA. Age and sex dependent effects of early overnutrition on metabolic parameters and the role of neonatal androgens. Biol Sex Differ 2016; 7:26. [PMID: 27195103 PMCID: PMC4870809 DOI: 10.1186/s13293-016-0079-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2015] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Background Males and females respond differently to diverse metabolic situations. Being raised in a small litter is reported to cause overnutrition that increases weight gain and predisposes an individual to metabolic disturbances in adulthood; however, existing data are inconsistent. Indeed, significant weight gain and/or metabolic disturbances, such as hyperinsulinemia and hyperleptinemia, are sometimes not encountered. We hypothesized that these inconsistencies could be due to the animal’s sex and/or age at which metabolic parameters are measured. Methods To analyze the effects of neonatal overnutrition, male and female Wistar rats were raised in litters of 4 or 12 pups/dam and killed at postnatal days (PND) 10, 21, 30, 50, 85, or 150. In a second study to determine if neonatal sex steroid levels influence sex differences in metabolic parameters, female rats were treated with testosterone on PND1. Effects on weight, length, fat pads, adipokine production, and serum levels of glucose, metabolic hormones, and cytokines were analyzed in both studies. Results By PND10, both males and females raised in small litters had increased body weight, body length, adiposity, and serum glucose, insulin, leptin, and adiponectin levels. Females had a greater increase in inguinal fat, and males had higher expression of leptin messenger RNA (mRNA) and serum insulin, as well as increased testosterone levels. Most of the litter size effects diminished or disappeared after weaning and reappeared during adulthood in males, with sex differences in body size and adiposity being apparent postpubertally. Treatment of females with testosterone on PND1 tended to masculinize some metabolic parameters in adulthood such as increased body weight and serum leptin levels. Conclusions Our results indicate that (1) both sex and age determine the response to neonatal overnutrition; (2) differences in neonatal sex steroid levels may participate in the development of sex differences in metabolic parameters in adulthood and possibly in the response to neonatal overnutrition; and (3) the comparison of circulating hormone and cytokine levels, even in normal control animals, should take into consideration the early neonatal nutritional environment.
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- Pilar Argente-Arizón
- Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Avenida Menéndez Pelayo 65, Madrid, 28009 Spain ; Department of Pediatrics, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Madrid, Spain ; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Madrid, Spain ; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Avenida Menéndez Pelayo 65, Madrid, 28009 Spain ; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Avenida Menéndez Pelayo 65, Madrid, 28009 Spain ; Department of Pediatrics, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Madrid, Spain ; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Avenida Menéndez Pelayo 65, Madrid, 28009 Spain ; Department of Pediatrics, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Madrid, Spain ; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ; Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC/HURS), Córdoba, 14004 Spain
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- Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Avenida Menéndez Pelayo 65, Madrid, 28009 Spain ; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ; Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC/HURS), Córdoba, 14004 Spain
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- Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Avenida Menéndez Pelayo 65, Madrid, 28009 Spain ; Department of Pediatrics, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Madrid, Spain ; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Avenida Menéndez Pelayo 65, Madrid, 28009 Spain ; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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Bohlen TM, Silveira MA, Zampieri TT, Frazão R, Donato J. Fatness rather than leptin sensitivity determines the timing of puberty in female mice. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2016; 423:11-21. [PMID: 26762764 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2015.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2015] [Revised: 12/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/30/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Leptin is a permissive factor for the onset of puberty. However, changes in adiposity frequently influence leptin sensitivity. Thus, the objective of the present study was to investigate how changes in body weight, fatness, leptin levels and leptin sensitivity interact to control the timing of puberty in female mice. Pre-pubertal obesity, induced by raising C57BL/6 mice in small litters, led to an early puberty onset. Inactivation of Socs3 gene in the brain or exclusively in leptin receptor-expressing cells reduced the body weight and leptin levels at pubertal onset, and increased leptin sensitivity. Notably, these female mice exhibited significant delays in vaginal opening, first estrus and onset of estrus cyclicity. In conclusion, our findings suggest that increased leptin sensitivity did not play an important role in favoring pubertal onset in female mice. Rather, changes in pubertal body weight, fatness and/or leptin levels were more important in influencing the timing of puberty.
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- Tabata M Bohlen
- Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Juan De Solis A, Baquero AF, Bennett CM, Grove KL, Zeltser LM. Postnatal undernutrition delays a key step in the maturation of hypothalamic feeding circuits. Mol Metab 2016; 5:198-209. [PMID: 26977392 PMCID: PMC4770263 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2016.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2015] [Revised: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE Humans and animals exposed to undernutrition (UN) during development often experience accelerated "catch-up" growth when food supplies are plentiful. Little is known about the mechanisms regulating early growth rates. We previously reported that actions of leptin and presynaptic inputs to orexigenic NPY/AgRP/GABA (NAG) neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus are almost exclusively excitatory during the lactation period, since neuronal and humoral inhibitory systems do not develop until after weaning. Moreover, we identified a critical step that regulates the maturation of electrophysiological responses of NAG neurons at weaning - the onset of genes encoding ATP-dependent potassium (KATP) channel subunits. We explored the possibility that UN promotes subsequent catch-up growth, in part, by delaying the maturation of negative feedback systems to neuronal circuits driving food intake. METHODS We used the large litter (LL) size model to study the impacts of postnatal UN followed by catch-up growth. We evaluated the maturation of presynaptic and postsynaptic inhibitory systems in NAG neurons using a combination of electrophysiological and molecular criteria, in conjunction with leptin's ability to suppress fasting-induced hyperphagia. RESULTS The onset of KATP channel subunit expression and function, the switch in leptin's effect on NAG neurons, the ingrowth of inhibitory inputs to NAG neurons, and the development of homeostatic feedback to feeding circuits were delayed in LL offspring relative to controls. The development of functional KATP channels and the establishment of leptin-mediated suppression of food intake in the peri-weaning period were tightly linked and were not initiated until growth and adiposity of LL offspring caught up to controls. CONCLUSIONS Our data support the idea that initiation of KATP channel subunit expression in NAG neurons serves as a molecular gatekeeper for the maturation of homeostatic feeding circuits.
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Key Words
- ARH, arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus
- AgRP
- AgRP, agouti-related peptide
- EPSC, excitatory postsynaptic current
- Feeding circuits
- GABA, gamma-aminobutyric acid
- IPSC, inhibitory postsynaptic current
- KATP channel
- KATP, ATP-sensitive potassium channel
- Kir, potassium inward rectifiying channel subunit
- LL, large litter
- Lepr, leptin receptor
- Leptin
- NAG, NPY, AgRP, GABA, NPY, neuropeptide Y
- NPY
- P, postnatal day
- PVH, paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus
- Pomc, pro-opiomelanocortin
- SUR, sulfonylurea receptor
- UN, undernutrition
- Undernutrition
- pSTAT3, phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription 3
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- Alain Juan De Solis
- Division of Molecular Genetics, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Division of Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA.
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- Division of Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA.
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- Division of Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA.
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- Division of Molecular Genetics, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Muhlhausler BS, Gugusheff JR, Ong ZY, Vithayathil MA. Pregnancy, obesity and insulin resistance: maternal overnutrition and the target windows of fetal development. Horm Mol Biol Clin Investig 2015; 15:25-36. [PMID: 25436730 DOI: 10.1515/hmbci-2013-0029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2013] [Accepted: 07/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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A substantial body of literature has demonstrated that the nutritional environment an individual experiences before birth or in early infancy is a key determinant of their health outcomes across the life course. This concept, the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis, was initially focused on the adverse consequences of exposure to a suboptimal nutrient supply and provided evidence that maternal undernutrition, fetal growth restriction, and low birth weight were associated with heightened risk of central adiposity, insulin resistance, and cardiovascular disease. More recently, the epidemic rise in the incidence of maternal obesity has seen the attention of the DOHaD field turn toward identifying the impact on the offspring of exposure to an excess nutrient supply in early life. The association between maternal obesity and increased risk of obesity in the offspring has been documented in human populations worldwide, and animal models have provided critical insights into the biological mechanisms that drive this relationship. This review will discuss the important roles that programming of the adipocyte and programming of the central neural networks which control appetite and reward play in the early life programming of metabolic disease by maternal overnutrition. It will also highlight the important research gaps and challenges that remain to be addressed and provide a personal perspective on where the field should be heading in the coming 5-10 years.
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- Beverly S Muhlhausler
- FOODplus Research Centre, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Jahan-Mihan A, Rodriguez J, Christie C, Sadeghi M, Zerbe T. The Role of Maternal Dietary Proteins in Development of Metabolic Syndrome in Offspring. Nutrients 2015; 7:9185-217. [PMID: 26561832 PMCID: PMC4663588 DOI: 10.3390/nu7115460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2015] [Revised: 10/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and obesity has been increasing. Pre-natal environment has been suggested as a factor influencing the risk of metabolic syndrome in adulthood. Both observational and experimental studies showed that maternal diet is a major modifier of the development of regulatory systems in the offspring in utero and post-natally. Both protein content and source in maternal diet influence pre- and early post-natal development. High and low protein dams’ diets have detrimental effect on body weight, blood pressure191 and metabolic and intake regulatory systems in the offspring. Moreover, the role of the source of protein in a nutritionally adequate maternal diet in programming of food intake regulatory system, body weight, glucose metabolism and blood pressure in offspring is studied. However, underlying mechanisms are still elusive. The purpose of this review is to examine the current literature related to the role of proteins in maternal diets in development of characteristics of the metabolic syndrome in offspring.
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- Alireza Jahan-Mihan
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Brook College of Health, University of North Florida, UNF Dr. Bldg 39, Room 3057A, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Brook College of Health, University of North Florida, UNF Dr. Bldg 39, Room 3057A, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Brook College of Health, University of North Florida, UNF Dr. Bldg 39, Room 3057A, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Brook College of Health, University of North Florida, UNF Dr. Bldg 39, Room 3057A, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Brook College of Health, University of North Florida, UNF Dr. Bldg 39, Room 3057A, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
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Suboptimal maternal nutrition exerts lasting impacts on obesity risk in offspring, but the direction of the effect is determined by the timing of exposure. While maternal undernutrition in early pregnancy is associated with increased body mass index, in later pregnancy it can be protective. The importance of the timing of maternal undernutrition is also observed in rodents, however, many of the processes that occur in the last trimester of human gestation are delayed to the postnatal period. Neonatal leptin administration exerts lasting impacts on susceptibility to obesity in rodents. Although leptin can influence the formation of hypothalamic circuits involved in homeostatic control of feeding during the postnatal period, these effects are too late to account for its ability to reverse adverse metabolic programming due to early gestational exposure to maternal undernutrition. This review presents an alternative framework for understanding the effects of neonatal leptin through influences on developing thermoregulatory circuits.
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Barbosa EH, Vallim JH, Lachat JJ, de Castro VLSS. Assessments of Motor Abnormalities on the Grid-Walking and Foot-Fault Tests From Undernutrition in Wistar Rats. J Mot Behav 2015; 48:5-12. [DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2015.1024824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Gali Ramamoorthy T, Begum G, Harno E, White A. Developmental programming of hypothalamic neuronal circuits: impact on energy balance control. Front Neurosci 2015; 9:126. [PMID: 25954145 PMCID: PMC4404811 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 03/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The prevalence of obesity in adults and children has increased globally at an alarming rate. Mounting evidence from both epidemiological studies and animal models indicates that adult obesity and associated metabolic disorders can be programmed by intrauterine and early postnatal environment- a phenomenon known as "fetal programming of adult disease." Data from nutritional intervention studies in animals including maternal under- and over-nutrition support the developmental origins of obesity and metabolic syndrome. The hypothalamic neuronal circuits located in the arcuate nucleus controlling appetite and energy expenditure are set early in life and are perturbed by maternal nutritional insults. In this review, we focus on the effects of maternal nutrition in programming permanent changes in these hypothalamic circuits, with experimental evidence from animal models of maternal under- and over-nutrition. We discuss the epigenetic modifications which regulate hypothalamic gene expression as potential molecular mechanisms linking maternal diet during pregnancy to the offspring's risk of obesity at a later age. Understanding these mechanisms in key metabolic genes may provide insights into the development of preventative intervention strategies.
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- School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester Manchester, UK
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester Manchester, UK ; Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, University of Manchester Manchester, UK
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Consumption of sucrose from infancy increases the visceral fat accumulation, concentration of triglycerides, insulin and leptin, and generates abnormalities in the adrenal gland. Anat Sci Int 2015; 91:151-62. [DOI: 10.1007/s12565-015-0279-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Gangisetty O, Bekdash R, Maglakelidze G, Sarkar DK. Fetal alcohol exposure alters proopiomelanocortin gene expression and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function via increasing MeCP2 expression in the hypothalamus. PLoS One 2014; 9:e113228. [PMID: 25409090 PMCID: PMC4237387 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) is a precursor gene of the neuropeptide β-endorphin in the hypothalamus and is known to regulate various physiological functions including stress response. Several recent reports showed that fetal alcohol exposure programs the hypothalamus to produce lower levels of POMC gene transcripts and to elevate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to stressful stimuli. We investigated the role of methyl CpG binding protein (MeCP2) in the effects of prenatal ethanol on POMC gene expression and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function. Pregnant Sprague Dawley rats were fed between GD 7 and 21 with a liquid diet containing 6.7% alcohol, pair-fed with isocaloric liquid diet, or fed ad libitum with rat chow, and their male offsprings were used at 60 days after birth in this study. Fetal alcohol exposure reduced the level of POMC mRNA, but increased the level of DNA methylation of this gene in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) of the hypothalamus where the POMC neuronal cell bodies are located. Fetal alcohol exposed rats showed a significant increase in MeCP2 protein levels in POMC cells, MeCP2 gene transcript levels as well as increased MeCP2 protein binding on the POMC promoter in the arcuate nucleus. Lentiviral delivery of MeCP2 shRNA into the third ventricle efficiently reduced MeCP2 expression and prevented the effect of prenatal ethanol on POMC gene expression in the arcuate nucleus. MeCP2-shRNA treatment also normalized the prenatal ethanol-induced increase in corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) gene expression in the hypothalamus and elevated plasma adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) and corticosterone hormone responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge. These results suggest that fetal alcohol programming of POMC gene may involve recruitment of MeCP2 on to the methylated promoter of the POMC gene to suppress POMC transcript levels and contribute to HPA axis dysregulation.
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- Omkaram Gangisetty
- Endocrine Program, Department of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Endocrine Program, Department of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Endocrine Program, Department of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Endocrine Program, Department of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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Santangeli L, Sattar N, Huda SS. Impact of maternal obesity on perinatal and childhood outcomes. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol 2014; 29:438-48. [PMID: 25497183 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2014.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Maternal obesity is of major consequence, affecting every aspect of maternity care including both short- and long-term effects on the health of the offspring. Obese mothers are at a higher risk of developing gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia, potentially exposing the foetus to an adverse intrauterine environment. Maternal obesity is linked to foetal macrosomia, resulting in increased neonatal and maternal morbidity. Foetal macrosomia is a result of a change in body composition in the neonate with an increase in both percentage fat and fat mass. Maternal obesity and gestational weight gain are associated with childhood obesity, and this effect extends into adulthood. Childhood obesity in turn increases chances of later life obesity, thus type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease in the offspring. Further clinical trials of lifestyle and, potentially, pharmacological interventions in obese pregnant women are required to determine whether short- and long-term adverse effects for the mother and child can be reduced.
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- Louise Santangeli
- ST7 Obstetrics and Gynaecology Speciality Doctor, Wishaw General Hospital, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, UK.
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- Professor of Metabolic Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, RC214 Level C2, Institute of C&MS, BHF GCRC, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK.
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- Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Women and Children, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, UK.
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Sun B, Song L, Tamashiro KLK, Moran TH, Yan J. Large litter rearing improves leptin sensitivity and hypothalamic appetite markers in offspring of rat dams fed high-fat diet during pregnancy and lactation. Endocrinology 2014; 155:3421-33. [PMID: 24926823 PMCID: PMC5393320 DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2014] [Accepted: 06/06/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Maternal high-fat (HF) diet has long-term consequences on the offspring's metabolic phenotype. Here, we determined the effects of large litter (LL) rearing in offspring of rat dams fed HF diet during gestation and lactation. Pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats were maintained on standard chow (CHOW) or HF diet throughout gestation and lactation. Pups were raised in normal litters (NLs) (10 pups/dam) or LLs (16 pups/dam) during lactation, resulting in 4 groups: CHOW-NL, CHOW-LL, HF-NL, and HF-LL. The offspring were weaned onto to either CHOW or HF diet on postnatal day 21. Male and female pups with maternal HF diet (HF-NL) had greater body weight and adiposity, higher plasma leptin levels, impaired glucose tolerance, abnormal hypothalamic leptin signaling pathways (lower leptin receptor-b [OB-Rb] and signal transducer and activator of transcription 3, higher suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 mRNA expression) and appetite markers (lower neuropeptide Y and Agouti-related peptide mRNA expression), and reduced phospho-signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 level in response to leptin in the arcuate nucleus at weaning, whereas LL rearing normalized these differences. When weaned onto CHOW diet, adult male offspring from HF diet-fed dams continued to have greater adiposity, higher leptin levels, and lower hypothalamic OB-Rb, and LL rearing improved them. When weaned onto HF diet, both adult male and female offspring with maternal HF diet had greater body weight and adiposity, higher leptin levels, impaired glucose tolerance, lower OB-Rb, and higher suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 in hypothalamus compared with those of CHOW dams, whereas LL rearing improved most of them except male OB-Rb expression. Our data suggest that LL rearing improves hypothalamic leptin signaling pathways and appetite markers in an age- and sex-specific manner in this model.
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- Bo Sun
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology (B.S., L.S., J.Y.), Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, People's Republic of China; and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (K.L.K.T., T.H.M.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Epigenetic changes in hypothalamic appetite regulatory genes may underlie the developmental programming for obesity in rat neonates subjected to a high-carbohydrate dietary modification. J Dev Orig Health Dis 2014; 4:479-90. [PMID: 24924227 DOI: 10.1017/s2040174413000238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Earlier, we showed that rearing of newborn rats on a high-carbohydrate (HC) milk formula resulted in the onset of hyperinsulinemia, its persistence in the post-weaning period and adult-onset obesity. DNA methylation of CpG dinucleotides in the proximal promoter region and modifications in the N-terminal tail of histone 3 associated with the neuropeptide Y (Npy) and pro-opiomelanocortin (Pomc) genes were investigated to decipher the molecular mechanisms supporting the development of obesity in HC females. Although there were no differences in the methylation status of CpG dinucleotides in the proximal promoter region of the Pomc gene, altered methylation of specific CpG dinucleotides proximal to the transcription start site was observed for the Npy gene in the hypothalami of 16- and 100-day-old HC rats compared with their methylation status in mother-fed (MF) rats. Investigation of histone tail modifications on hypothalamic chromatin extracts from 16-day-old rats indicated decreased acetylation of lysine 9 in histone 3 (H3K9) for the Pomc gene and increased acetylation for the same residue for the Npy gene, without changes in histone methylation (H3K9) in both genes in HC rats. These findings are consistent with the changes in the levels of Npy and Pomc mRNAs in the hypothalami of HC rats compared with MF animals. Our results suggest that epigenetic modifications could contribute to the altered gene expression of the Npy and Pomc genes in the hypothalami of HC rats and could be a mechanism leading to hyperphagia and the development of obesity in adult female HC rats.
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Rinaldi W, Gomes RM, Scomparin DX, Grassiolli S, Ribeiro TA, Fabricio GS, Barella LF, Pavanello A, Trombini AB, Mathias PCDF, de Oliveira JC. Low-intensity and moderate exercise training improves autonomic nervous system activity imbalanced by postnatal early overfeeding in rats. J Int Soc Sports Nutr 2014; 11:25. [PMID: 24914402 PMCID: PMC4049453 DOI: 10.1186/1550-2783-11-25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2013] [Accepted: 05/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Postnatal early overfeeding and physical inactivity are serious risk factors for obesity. Physical activity enhances energy expenditure and consumes fat stocks, thereby decreasing body weight (bw). This study aimed to examine whether low-intensity and moderate exercise training in different post-weaning stages of life is capable of modulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity and inhibiting perinatal overfeeding-induced obesity in rats. Methods The obesity-promoting regimen was begun two days after birth when the litter size was adjusted to 3 pups (small litter, SL) or to 9 pups (normal litter, NL). The rats were organized into exercised groups as follows: from weaning until 90-day-old, from weaning until 50-day-old, or from 60- until 90-days-old. All experimental procedures were performed just one day after the exercise training protocol. Results The SL-no-exercised (SL-N-EXE) group exhibited excess weight and increased fat accumulation. We also observed fasting hyperglycemia and glucose intolerance in these rats. In addition, the SL-N-EXE group exhibited an increase in the vagus nerve firing rate, whereas the firing of the greater splanchnic nerve was not altered. Independent of the timing of exercise and the age of the rats, exercise training was able to significantly blocks obesity onset in the SL rats; even SL animals whose exercise training was stopped at the end of puberty, exhibited resistance to obesity progression. Fasting glycemia was maintained normal in all SL rats that underwent the exercise training, independent of the period. These results demonstrate that moderate exercise, regardless of the time of onset, is capable on improve the vagus nerves imbalanced tonus and blocks the onset of early overfeeding-induced obesity. Conclusions Low-intensity and moderate exercise training can promote the maintenance of glucose homeostasis, reduces the large fat pad stores associated to improvement of the ANS activity in adult rats that were obesity-programmed by early overfeeding.
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- Wilson Rinaldi
- Department of Physical Education, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Department of General Biology, State University of Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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Soares GDSF, Lima CB, Cavalcanti LC, Villacampa N, Castellano B, Guedes RCA. Brain effects of the lectin from Canavalia ensiformis in adult rats previously suckled in favorable and unfavorable conditions: A spreading depression and microglia immunolabeling study. Nutr Neurosci 2014; 18:307-15. [PMID: 24819023 DOI: 10.1179/1476830514y.0000000128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate in adult rats, previously suckled under favorable and unfavorable conditions, the brain electrophysiological and microglial effects of the treatment early in life with the lectin (ConA) from Canavalia ensiformis. METHODS Male Wistar newborn rats (n = 89) were suckled under favorable or unfavorable conditions, represented by litters with 6-7 pups or 12-14 pups (groups N6 and N12, respectively). From postnatal days 5-24, they were treated intraperitoneally with 1 or 10 mg/kg ConA (groups L1 and L10, respectively), or with saline solution (group Sal), or no treatment (group Naïve). At 90-120 days of age, cortical spreading depression (CSD) was recorded at two parietal points for 4 hours, and CSD parameters (velocity of propagation and amplitude and duration of the DC slow potential change) were measured. Fixative-perfused brain sections were reacted with anti-Iba1 antibodies to quantify immunolabeled microglia. RESULTS Compared with the control groups, ConA-treated animals dose-dependently presented with reduced CSD propagation velocities and increased amplitude and duration of the CSD slow potential change. Microglia Iba-1 immunoreactivity was lower in both nutritional groups treated with ConA, in comparison with the control groups. The CSD hemisphere presented with higher immunoreactivity compared with the CSD-free hemisphere. DISCUSSION Attenuation in CSD propagation and microglia reaction was associated in adulthood with ConA treatment during brain development, indicating that the lectin can affect the electrophysiological and microglial development, and suggesting long-lasting protective action of the lectin on the rat brain, which is not impeded by the unfavorable suckling condition.
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Kjaergaard M, Nilsson C, Rosendal A, Nielsen MO, Raun K. Maternal chocolate and sucrose soft drink intake induces hepatic steatosis in rat offspring associated with altered lipid gene expression profile. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2014; 210:142-53. [PMID: 23782871 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2013] [Revised: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 06/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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AIM According to the World Diabetes Foundation, there is an urgent need to investigate the impact of maternal health and nutrition during pregnancy to understand the background for the accelerating incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In this study, we specifically concentrated on the role of overfeeding during different developmental periods. METHODS Sprague-Dawley rats were offered chow or high-fat/high-sucrose diet (chow plus chocolate and soft drink) during gestation and lactation. At birth, offspring were randomly cross-fostered within each dietary group into small and normal litter sizes until weaning, giving four dietary groups. RESULTS At postnatal day 1, offspring from high-fat/high-sucrose-fed dams were heavier and had increased hepatic triglycerides (TG), hepatic glycogen, blood glucose and plasma insulin compared with offspring from chow-fed dams. Hepatic genes involved in lipid oxidation, VLDL transport and insulin receptor were down-regulated, whereas FGF21 expression was up-regulated. Independent of postnatal litter size, offspring from high-fat/high-sucrose-fed dams aged 21 days had still increased hepatic TG and up-regulated FGF21 expression, while plasma insulin started to decrease. Litter size reduction in offspring from high-fat/high-sucrose-fed dams further increased body weight and adiposity, and up-regulated genes involved in hepatic mitochondrial lipid oxidation and VLDL transport compared with all other groups. Litter size reduction did not have any impact on body weight gain and adiposity in offspring born to chow-fed dams. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that supplementation of chocolate and soft drink during gestation and lactation contributes to early onset of hepatic steatosis associated with changes in hepatic gene expression and lipid handling.
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- M. Kjaergaard
- Department of Type 2 Diabetes Pharmacology; Novo Nordisk A/S; Maaloev Denmark
- Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences; University of Copenhagen; Frederiksberg Denmark
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- Uppsala University Innovation, Uppsala Science Park; Uppsala Sweden
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- Department of Assay Technology; Novo Nordisk A/S; Maaloev Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences; University of Copenhagen; Frederiksberg Denmark
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- Department of Type 2 Diabetes Pharmacology; Novo Nordisk A/S; Maaloev Denmark
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da Silva Germano PCP, Silva DDLE, Soares GDSF, dos Santos ÂA, Guedes RCA. Hypercaloric high-lipid diet and brain development: Effects on cortical spreading depression in adult rats. Nutr Neurosci 2013; 16:275-81. [DOI: 10.1179/1476830513y.0000000056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Schellong K, Neumann U, Rancourt RC, Plagemann A. Increase of long-term 'diabesity' risk, hyperphagia, and altered hypothalamic neuropeptide expression in neonatally overnourished 'small-for-gestational-age' (SGA) rats. PLoS One 2013; 8:e78799. [PMID: 24265718 PMCID: PMC3827123 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2013] [Accepted: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Epidemiological data have shown long-term health adversity in low birth weight subjects, especially concerning the metabolic syndrome and 'diabesity' risk. Alterations in adult food intake have been suggested to be causally involved. Responsible mechanisms remain unclear. METHODS AND FINDINGS By rearing in normal (NL) vs. small litters (SL), small-for-gestational-age (SGA) rats were neonatally exposed to either normal (SGA-in-NL) or over-feeding (SGA-in-SL), and followed up into late adult age as compared to normally reared appropriate-for-gestational-age control rats (AGA-in-NL). SGA-in-SL rats displayed rapid neonatal weight gain within one week after birth, while SGA-in-NL growth caught up only at juvenile age (day 60), as compared to AGA-in-NL controls. In adulthood, an increase in lipids, leptin, insulin, insulin/glucose-ratio (all p<0.05), and hyperphagia under normal chow as well as high-energy/high-fat diet, modelling modern 'westernized' lifestyle, were observed only in SGA-in-SL as compared to both SGA-in-NL and AGA-in-NL rats (p<0.05). Lasercapture microdissection (LMD)-based neuropeptide expression analyses in single neuron pools of the arcuate hypothalamic nucleus (ARC) revealed a significant shift towards down-regulation of the anorexigenic melanocortinergic system (proopiomelanocortin, Pomc) in SGA-in-SL rats (p<0.05). Neuropeptide expression within the orexigenic system (neuropeptide Y (Npy), agouti-related-peptide (Agrp) and galanin (Gal)) was not significantly altered. In essence, the 'orexigenic index', proposed here as a neuroendocrine 'net-indicator', was increased in SGA-in-SL regarding Npy/Pomc expression (p<0.01), correlated to food intake (p<0.05). CONCLUSION Adult SGA rats developed increased 'diabesity' risk only if exposed to neonatal overfeeding. Hypothalamic malprogramming towards decreased anorexigenic activity was involved into the pathophysiology of this neonatally acquired adverse phenotype. Neonatal overfeeding appears to be a critical long-term risk factor in 'small-for-gestational-age babies'.
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- Karen Schellong
- Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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- Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
- Medical Center for Women’s and Children’s Health, Department of Pediatrics, Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, Potsdam, Germany
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- Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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- Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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Liu Z, Lim CY, Su MYF, Soh SLY, Shui G, Wenk MR, Grove KL, Radda GK, Han W, Xiao X. Neonatal overnutrition in mice exacerbates high-fat diet-induced metabolic perturbations. J Endocrinol 2013; 219:131-43. [PMID: 23959078 DOI: 10.1530/joe-13-0111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Neonatal overnutrition results in accelerated development of high-fat diet (HFD)-induced metabolic defects in adulthood. To understand whether the increased susceptibility was associated with aggravated inflammation and dysregulated lipid metabolism, we studied metabolic changes and insulin signaling in a chronic postnatal overnutrition (CPO) mouse model. Male Swiss Webster pups were raised with either three pups per litter to induce CPO or ten pups per litter as control (CTR) and weaned to either low-fat diet (LFD) or HFD. All animals were killed on the postnatal day 150 (P150) except for a subset of mice killed on P15 for the measurement of stomach weight and milk composition. CPO mice exhibited accelerated body weight gain and increased body fat mass prior to weaning and the difference persisted into adulthood under conditions of both LFD and HFD. As adults, insulin signaling was more severely impaired in epididymal white adipose tissue (WAT) from HFD-fed CPO (CPO-HFD) mice. In addition, HFD-induced upregulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines was exaggerated in CPO-HFD mice. Consistent with greater inflammation, CPO-HFD mice showed more severe macrophage infiltration than HFD-fed CTR (CTR-HFD) mice. Furthermore, when compared with CTR-HFD mice, CPO-HFD mice exhibited reduced levels of several lipogenic enzymes in WAT and excess intramyocellular lipid accumulation. These data indicate that neonatal overnutrition accelerates the development of insulin resistance and exacerbates HFD-induced metabolic defects, possibly by worsening HFD-induced inflammatory response and impaired lipid metabolism.
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- Zhiguo Liu
- Laboratory of Lipid and Glucose Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 1 Youyi Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400016, People's Republic of China Laboratory of Metabolic Medicine, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), #02-02 Helios, 11 Biopolis Way, Singapore 138667, Singapore Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, 505 NW 185th Avenue, Beaverton, Oregon 97006, USA Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119275, Singapore
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Liu HW, Srinivasan M, Mahmood S, Smiraglia DJ, Patel MS. Adult-onset obesity induced by early life overnutrition could be reversed by moderate caloric restriction. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2013; 305:E785-94. [PMID: 23900419 PMCID: PMC3798704 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00280.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Overnutrition during the suckling period (small litter, SL) results in the development of adult-onset obesity. Our aim was to investigate whether two levels of caloric restriction (CR) in the early postweaning period can reverse obese phenotype in SL rats. The normal litter (NL) had 12 pups/dam and SL had 3 male pups/dam from the postnatal day 3 until day 21. After weaning, rats consumed lab chow as indicated: 1) NL and SL groups were on ad libitum regimen up to day 140, 2) another SL group was pair-fed (SL/PF) to NL(∼14% reduction), 3) SL/PF/AL group was pair-fed up to day 94 and then switched to ad libitum feeding, 4) SL/CR group received 24% reduction (moderate CR) in food intake compared with SL, and 5) SL/CR/AL group was on 24% CR up to day 94 and then switched to ad libitum feeding. Pair-feeding reduced body weight gains and serum insulin and leptin levels compared with SL rats, but these parameters were restored to SL levels in the SL/PF/AL rats after switching to ad libitum feeding. Interestingly, the moderate CR normalized these parameters in SL/CR and SL/CR/AL rats compared with NL. The expression of neuropeptide Y, proopiomelanocortin, and leptin receptor returned to control levels in hypothalami from SL/CR and SL/CR/AL rats. These results indicate that appropriate manipulation of energy intake during the early postweaning period could lead to longer-lasting effects on the regulation of body weight homeostasis via reversal of the early preweaning programming effects on the hypothalamic appetite regulation mechanism.
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- Hung-Wen Liu
- Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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Rocha-de-Melo AP, Cavalcanti JDB, Barros AS, Guedes RCA. Manipulation of rat litter size during suckling influences cortical spreading depression after weaning and at adulthood. Nutr Neurosci 2013; 9:155-60. [PMID: 17176638 DOI: 10.1080/10284150600903602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Nutritional conditions early in life constitute one environmental factor that can influence brain electrophysiological features. Cortical spreading depression (SD) is a brain electrophysiological phenomenon that can be altered by the early nutritional status of organism. SD-velocity changes were presently studied in young (30-40 days old) and adult (90-120 days) rats suckled in litters formed by 3, 6, or 12 pups (called respectively small (S), medium (M) and large (L) litters). Body weights and SD propagation velocities in the 3 groups varied, respectively in an inverse and direct way, in relation to the litter sizes. The present investigation provides the first systematic description of the effectiveness of favorable and unfavorable lactation conditions (respectively suckling in S and L litters) in altering cortical SD-propagation. The results confirm previous evidence in favor of permanent or at least long-lasting SD-changes associated to the prevailing nutritional status during the period of fast brain development.
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- Ana Paula Rocha-de-Melo
- Departamento de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR-50670-901 Recife, PE, Brazil
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