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- Title
High-fat diet during pregnancy lowers fetal weight and has a long-lasting adverse effect on brown adipose tissue in the offspring.
- Authors
Yamaguchi, Mihoko; Mori, Jun; Nishida, Nozomi; Miyagaki, Satoshi; Kawabe, Yasuhiro; Ota, Takeshi; Morimoto, Hidechika; Tsuma, Yusuke; Fukuhara, Shota; Ogata, Takehiro; Okamaura, Takuro; Nakanishi, Naoko; Hamaguchi, Masahide; Nakajima, Hisakazu; Fukui, Michiaki; Iehara, Tomoko
- Abstract
Maternal obesity and malnutrition during gestation and lactation have been recognized to increase the risk of obesity and metabolic disorders in the offspring across their lifespan. However, the gestational period during which malnutrition exerts a decisive effect is unclear. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) plays a critical role in energy metabolism owing to its high efficiency in oxidizing glucose and fatty acids. This study aimed to determine the impact of maternal high-fat diet (HFD) consumption only during pregnancy on BAT and energy metabolism in offspring mice. Dams were fed an HFD or a normal chow diet from embryonic day 2.5. HFD consumption during pregnancy induced glucose intolerance and hypertension in dams. In the offspring of HFD-fed dams, maternal HFD lowered fetal weight without affecting placental weight, whereas HFD consumption after birth exacerbated oxygen consumption and cold-induced thermogenesis at 12 months of age, accompanied by increased lipid droplet size in BAT. These data demonstrate that HFD consumption only during pregnancy exerts a long-lasting effect on BAT. Collectively, these findings indicate the importance of nutrition during pregnancy with respect to the energy metabolism of the offspring, and pregnant women should thus ensure proper nutrition during pregnancy to ensure normal energy metabolism in the offspring.
- Subjects
BROWN adipose tissue; HIGH-fat diet; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT women; ENERGY metabolism
- Publication
Journal of Developmental Origins of Health & Disease, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 2, p261
- ISSN
2040-1744
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S2040174422000551