Journal
FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 379-390Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-218685
Keywords
developmental programming; aging; cardiovascular disease
Categories
Funding
- UK Department of Health's National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres
- British Heart Foundation
- BBSRC [BB/F015364/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G0600717, MC_UU_12012/4, MC_PC_12012] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F015364/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- British Heart Foundation [FS/09/029/27902, PG/09/037/27387] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MC_UU_12012/4, G0600717, G0600717B] Funding Source: researchfish
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Low birth weight and accelerated postnatal growth lead to increased risk of cardiovascular disease. We reported previously that rats exposed to a low-protein diet in utero and postnatal catch-up growth (recuperated) develop metabolic dysfunction and have reduced life span. Here we explored the hypothesis that cardiac oxidative and nitrosative stress leading to DNA damage and accelerated cellular aging could contribute to these phenotypes. Recuperated animals had a low birth weight (P<0.001) but caught up in weight to controls during lactation. At weaning, recuperated cardiac tissue had increased (P<0.05) protein nitrotyrosination and DNA single-stranded breaks. This condition was preceded by increased expression of DNA damage repair molecules 8-oxoguanine-DNA-glycosylase-1, nei-endonuclease-VIII-like, X-ray-repair-complementing-defective-repair-1, and Nthl endonuclease III-like-1 on d 3. These differences were maintained on d 22 and became more pronounced in the case of 8-oxoguanine-DNA-glycosylase-1 and nei-endonuclease-VIII-like. This was accompanied by increases in xanthine oxidase (P<0.001) and NADPH oxidase (P<0.05), major sources of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The detrimental effects of increased ROS in recuperated offspring may be exaggerated at 22 d by reductions (P<0.001) in the antioxidant enzymes peroxiredoxin-3 and CuZn-superoxide-dismutase. We conclude that poor fetal nutrition followed by accelerated postnatal growth results in increased cardiac nitrosative and oxidative-stress and DNA damage, which could contribute to age-associated disease risk.-Tarry-Adkins, J. L., Martin-Gronert, M. S., Fernandez-Twinn, D. S., Hargreaves, I., Alfaradhi, M. Z., Land, J. M., Aiken, C. E., Ozanne, S. E. Poor maternal nutrition followed by accelerated postnatal growth leads to alterations in DNA damage and repair, oxidative and nitrosative stress and oxidative defense capacity in rat heart. FASEB J. 27, 379-390 (2013). www.fasebj.org
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available