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Maternal Diet, Metabolic State, and Inflammatory Response Exert Unique and Long-Lasting Influences on Offspring Behavior in Non-Human Primates

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in endocrinology, April 2018
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Title
Maternal Diet, Metabolic State, and Inflammatory Response Exert Unique and Long-Lasting Influences on Offspring Behavior in Non-Human Primates
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Frontiers in endocrinology, April 2018
DOI 10.3389/fendo.2018.00161
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Jacqueline R. Thompson, Hanna C. Gustafsson, Madison DeCapo, Diana L. Takahashi, Jennifer L. Bagley, Tyler A. Dean, Paul Kievit, Damien A. Fair, Elinor L. Sullivan

Abstract

Nutritional status influences brain health and gestational exposure to metabolic disorders (e.g. obesity and diabetes) increases the risk of neuropsychiatric disorders. The aim of the present study was to further investigate the role of maternal Western-style diet (WSD), metabolic state, and inflammatory factors in the programming of Japanese macaque offspring behavior. Utilizing structural equation modeling, we investigated the relationships between maternal diet, prepregnancy adiposity, third trimester insulin response, and plasma cytokine levels on 11-month-old offspring behavior. Maternal WSD was associated with greater reactive and ritualized anxiety in offspring. Maternal adiposity and third trimester macrophage-derived chemokine (MDC) exerted opposing effects on offspring high-energy outbursts. Elevated levels of this behavior were associated with low maternal MDC and increased prepregnancy adiposity. This is the first study to show that maternal MDC levels influence offspring behavior. We found no evidence suggesting maternal peripheral inflammatory response mediated the effect of maternal diet and metabolic state on aberrant offspring behavior. Additionally, the extent of maternal metabolic impairment differentially influenced chemokine response. Elevated prepregnancy adiposity suppressed third trimester chemokines, while obesity-induced insulin resistance augmented peripheral chemokine levels. WSD also directly increased maternal interleukin-12. This is the first non-human primate study to delineate the effects of maternal diet and metabolic state on gestational inflammatory environment and subsequent offspring behavior. Our findings give insight to the complex mechanisms by which diet, metabolic state, and inflammation during pregnancy exert unique influences on offspring behavioral regulation.

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Unknown 67 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 19%
Researcher 8 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Student > Master 6 9%
Other 14 21%
Unknown 13 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 10%
Neuroscience 6 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Other 13 19%
Unknown 15 22%
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