A maternal Western diet during gestation and lactation modifies offspring’s microbiota activity, blood lipid levels, cognitive responses, and hippocampal neurogenesis in Yucatan pigs

Central nervous system regulation of intestinal lipid and lipoprotein metabolism

(2016) Sarah Farr et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN LIPIDOLOGY

Prenatal, but not early postnatal, exposure to a Western diet improves spatial memory of pigs later in life and is paired with changes in maternal prepartum blood lipid levels

(2016) Caroline Clouard et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Critical review evaluating the pig as a model for human nutritional physiology

(2016) Eugeni Roura et al.   NUTRITION RESEARCH REVIEWS

Perinatal Exposure to a Diet High in Saturated Fat, Refined Sugar and Cholesterol Affects Behaviour, Growth, and Feed Intake in Weaned Piglets

(2016) Caroline Clouard et al.   PLoS One

Microbiota and the gut–brain axis

(2015) John Bienenstock et al.   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Very low birth weight piglets show improved cognitive performance in the spatial cognitive holeboard task

(2015) Alexandra Antonides et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Pre-weaning dietary iron deficiency impairs spatial learning and memory in the cognitive holeboard task in piglets

(2015) Alexandra Antonides et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Placental accommodations for transport and metabolism during intra-uterine crowding in pigs

(2015) Jeffrey L Vallet et al.   Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Dietary sugars: their detection by the gut–brain axis and their peripheral and central effects in health and diseases

(2014) Melissa Ochoa et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Microglia and brain macrophages in the molecular age: from origin to neuropsychiatric disease

(2014) Marco Prinz et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Maternal Short-Chain Fructooligosaccharide Supplementation Influences Intestinal Immune System Maturation in Piglets

(2014) Cindy Le Bourgot et al.   PLoS One

Maternal Obesity Is Associated with Alterations in the Gut Microbiome in Toddlers

(2014) Jeffrey D. Galley et al.   PLoS One

Consuming a low-fat diet from weaning to adulthood reverses the programming of food preferences in male, but not in female, offspring of ‘junk food’-fed rat dams

(2013) Z. Y. Ong et al.   Acta Physiologica

Working and reference memory of pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) in a holeboard spatial discrimination task: the influence of environmental enrichment

(2013) J. Elizabeth Bolhuis et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Responses of conventional pigs and Göttingen miniature pigs in an active choice judgement bias task

(2013) Eimear Murphy et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Animal models of in utero exposure to a high fat diet: A review

(2013) Lyda Williams et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE

Parental Dietary Fat Intake Alters Offspring Microbiome and Immunity

(2013) I. A. Myles et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Liquid diets reduce cell proliferation but not neurogenesis in the adult rat hippocampus

(2013) A.R. Patten et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Cognitive Performance of Göttingen Minipigs Is Affected by Diet in a Spatial Hole-Board Discrimination Test

(2013) Annika Maria Juul Haagensen et al.   PLoS One

Gut Microbiota from Twins Discordant for Obesity Modulate Metabolism in Mice

(2013) V. K. Ridaura et al.   SCIENCE

Maternal high-fat diet in mice programs emotional behavior in adulthood

(2012) Daria Peleg-Raibstein et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Maternal western diet causes inflammatory milk and TLR2/4-dependent neonatal toxicity

(2012) Y. Du et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Research Review: Maternal prenatal distress and poor nutrition - mutually influencing risk factors affecting infant neurocognitive development

(2012) Catherine Monk et al.   JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

Cognitive performance of low- and normal-birth-weight piglets in a spatial hole-board discrimination task

(2012) Elise T. Gieling et al.   PEDIATRIC RESEARCH

Food preferences and aversions in human health and nutrition: how can pigs help the biomedical research?

(2011) C. Clouard et al.   Animal

The appetitively motivated “cognitive” holeboard: A family of complex spatial discrimination tasks for assessing learning and memory

(2011) F. Josef van der Staay et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Changes in Brain Activity After a Diet-Induced Obesity

(2011) David Val-Laillet et al.   Obesity

Metabolic Imprinting by Prenatal, Perinatal, and Postnatal Overnutrition: A Review

(2011) Jennifer Dyer et al.   SEMINARS IN REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE

Early Life Programming and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

(2010) Tracy L. Bale et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

A computed tomography scan application to evaluate adiposity in a minipig model of human obesity

(2010) D. Val-Laillet et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Enduring consequences of maternal obesity for brain inflammation and behavior of offspring

(2010) Staci D. Bilbo et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Maternal obesity impairs hippocampal BDNF production and spatial learning performance in young mouse offspring

(2010) Yusuke Tozuka et al.   NEUROCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL

Maternal high-fat intake alters presynaptic regulation of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and increases motivation for fat rewards in the offspring

(2010) L. Naef et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Cognitive testing of pigs (Sus scrofa) in translational biobehavioral research

(2010) Birgitte R. Kornum et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Murine Features of Neurogenesis in the Human Hippocampus across the Lifespan from 0 to 100 Years

(2010) Rolf Knoth et al.   PLoS One

Effects of high fat diet on Morris maze performance, oxidative stress, and inflammation in rats: Contributions of maternal diet

(2009) Christy L. White et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Early life exposure to a high fat diet promotes long-term changes in dietary preferences and central reward signaling

(2009) S.L. Teegarden et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Maternal obesity: consequences for children, challenges for clinicians and carers

(2009) W. McGuire et al.   Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Are pigs sensitive to variability in food rewards?

(2008) Francien H. de Jonge et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Feed preference in pigs: Relationship with feed particle size and texture1

(2008) D. Solà-Oriol et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE