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- Title
A Mitochondrial Specific Antioxidant Reverses Metabolic Dysfunction and Fatty Liver Induced by Maternal Cigarette Smoke in Mice.
- Authors
Li, Gerard; Chan, Yik Lung; Sukjamnong, Suporn; Anwer, Ayad G.; Vindin, Howard; Padula, Matthew; Zakarya, Razia; George, Jacob; Oliver, Brian G.; Saad, Sonia; Chen, Hui
- Abstract
Maternal smoking leads to glucose and lipid metabolic disorders and hepatic damage in the offspring, potentially due to mitochondrial oxidative stress. Mitoquinone mesylate (MitoQ) is a mitochondrial targeted antioxidant with high bioavailability. This study aimed to examine the impact of maternal cigarette smoke exposure (SE) on offspring's metabolic profile and hepatic damage, and whether maternal MitoQ supplementation during gestation can affect these changes. Female Balb/c mice (eight weeks) were either exposed to air or SE for six weeks prior to mating and throughout gestation and lactation. A subset of the SE dams were supplied with MitoQ in the drinking water (500 µmol/L) during gestation and lactation. Intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test was performed in the male offspring at 12 weeks and the livers and plasma were collected at 13 weeks. Maternal SE induced glucose intolerance, hepatic steatosis, mitochondrial oxidative stress and related damage in the adult offspring. Maternal MitoQ supplementation reduced hepatic mitochondrial oxidative stress and improved markers of mitophagy and mitochondrial biogenesis. This may restore hepatic mitochondrial health and was associated with an amelioration of glucose intolerance, hepatic steatosis and pathological changes induced by maternal SE. MitoQ supplementation may potentially prevent metabolic dysfunction and hepatic pathology induced by intrauterine SE.
- Subjects
THERAPEUTIC use of antioxidants; PREVENTION of pregnancy complications; FATTY liver prevention; ANIMAL experimentation; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHILD health services; LACTATION; METABOLIC disorders; MICE; MITOCHONDRIAL pathology; SMOKING; OXIDATIVE stress; PREGNANCY
- Publication
Nutrients, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 7, p1669
- ISSN
2072-6643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nu11071669