Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital , Southampton SO16 6YD , UK
2. School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital , Southampton SO16 6YD , UK
Abstract
AbstractPoor maternal nutrition during pregnancy is known to impair fetal development. Moreover, the preimplantation period is vulnerable to adverse programming of disease. Here, we investigated the effect of a mouse maternal high-fat diet in healthy non-obese dams during preimplantation or throughout pregnancy and lactation on metabolism-related parameters and hippocampal neurogenesis in adult offspring. Female mice were fed from conception either a normal fat diet (normal fat diet group) or high-fat diet throughout gestation and lactation (high-fat diet group), or high-fat diet only during preimplantation (embryonic high-fat diet group, high-fat diet up to E3.5, normal fat diet thereafter). Maternal high-fat diet caused changes in the offspring, including increased systolic blood pressure, diurnal activity, respiratory quotient, and energy expenditure in high-fat diet females, and increased systolic blood pressure and respiratory quotient but decreased energy expenditure in high-fat diet males. High-fat diet males had a higher density of newborn neurons and a lower density of mature neurons in the dentate gyrus, indicating that exposure to a maternal high-fat diet may regulate adult neurogenesis. A maternal high-fat diet also increased the density of astrocytes and microglia in the hippocampus of high-fat diet males and females. Generally, a graded response (normal fat diet < embryonic high-fat < high-fat diet) was observed, with only 3 days of high-fat diet exposure altering offspring energy metabolism and hippocampal cell density. Thus, early maternal exposure to a fatty diet, well before neural differentiation begins and independently of maternal obesity, is sufficient to perturb offspring energy metabolism and brain physiology with lifetime consequences.
Funder
University of Southampton
Medical Research Council
Newton-Caldas Fund
British Council
Innovative Training Networks
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Neurology,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience,Biological Psychiatry,Psychiatry and Mental health
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