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JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
卷 134, 期 3, 页码 648-654出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jn/134.3.648
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gestational diabetes; breastfeeding; nutritional programming; hypothalamus; regulation of food intake and body weight
Exposure to maternal gestational diabetes (GD) programs offspring for obesity in childhood and later life. Recent clinical data suggest that neonatal ingestion of breast milk from diabetic mothers might be crucially involved. Mediobasal hypothalamic nuclei such as the ventromedial nucleus (VMN), the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and the arcuate nucleus (ARC) play a key role in the central nervous system regulation of food intake and body weight. In the ARC, orexigenic neuropeptides such as neuropeptide Y (NPY), galanin (GAL), and agouti-related peptide (AGRP) and anorexigenic neuropeptides such as proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) are expressed. We investigated the effects of neonatal exposure to milk from GD rat dams on the development of hypothalamic nuclei in weanling rats. Offspring of control (CO) rat dams cross-fostered to GD rat dams (CO-GD) developed early postnatal growth delay. On d 21 of life, CO-GD rats showed structural and functional hypothalamic malprogramming. The ARC of CO-GD rats showed increased immunopositivity of both NPY and AGRP under basal conditions, despite normal levels of glucose, leptin, and insulin. Conversely, CO-GD rats showed decreased immunopositivity of both POMC and MSH and decreased density of immunopositive neurons, compared with offspring of control rat dams cross-fostered to control rat dams. No morphometric alterations were found in the VMN, whereas CO-GD rats showed an increased total number of neurons in the PVN. In summary, neonatal exposure to maternal diabetes through the intake of dam's milk in rats leads to a complex malprogramming of hypothalamic orexigenic and anorexigenic circuits that are critically involved in the lifelong regulation of food intake, body weight, and metabolism.
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