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Age-dependent effects of a high-fat diet combined with dietary advanced glycation end products on cognitive function and protection with voluntary exercise

Journal

FOOD & FUNCTION
Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages 4445-4458

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1fo03241k

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81872609, 82073535]

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The study found that a combination of a high fat diet and an advanced glycation end products diet induced worse cognitive impairment in middle-aged mice compared to just a high fat diet, and voluntary exercise improved cognitive function after the combined diet. In young mice, the neuro-protective effects of exercise were associated with inhibiting certain genes and promoting a balanced gut microbiota, while in middle-aged mice, exercise improved cognitive function by adjusting protein expression and restoring intestinal permeability.
To determine whether a high fat diet (HFD) combined with an advanced glycation end products (AGEs) diet will induce worse cognitive impairment than a HFD alone and to investigate whether voluntary exercise is capable of improving cognitive function after the combined diet, young and middle-aged male C57BL/6J mice were randomly assigned to four groups, i.e., control, HFD, combined diet, and combined diet treated with voluntary exercise. Compared to HFD, combined diet induced worse memory abilities only in middle-aged mice, as exhibited by the reduced number of crossings and reduced distance in the target zone during a probe trial. Exercise reversed combined-diet-induced cognitive impairment for both ages of mice. For young mice, the neuro-protective effects of exercise were mainly associated with inhibition of NLRP3, Dnmt3a, Dnmt3b, and H3K9me2 and elevation of OST48; it also elevated Bacilli and reduced Epsilonproteobacteria, Campylobacterales, and Helicobacter. For middle-aged mice, exercise elevated Tet2, inhibited NF-kappa B and NLRP3, and rebalanced circadian clock proteins and the RAGE-OST48 axis; also, exercise elevated Coriobacteriia/Coriobacteriaceae, Erysipelotrichaceae, and Allobaculum and restored intestinal permeability.

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