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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE
卷 29, 期 7, 页码 775-781出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2011.05.004
关键词
Intra-uterine growth restriction; Fetus; Hypothalamus; Glucose; Adiposity; Neuropeptides; Leptin receptor
资金
- Scottish Government Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate (RERAD)
Intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) predisposes obesity in adulthood. This may be due to altered fetal nutrition causing sustained changes within the developing hypothalamic energy balance regulatory system. Using our established ovine model of IUGR, 130-day singleton fetuses (term = 147 days) were obtained from growing adolescent mothers on control dietary intake (C), high intake (H) or H with growth hormone administration during either early (H + early GH) or late gestation (H + late GH) (n = 6/group). GH increased maternal glycemia for the duration of treatment. H and H + early GH fetuses showed IUGR compared with C fetuses: body weight was partially restored in H + late GH fetuses, with 40% increased adiposity. In the fetal hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC), cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript mRNA (anorexigenic) was decreased in H fetuses and correlated across all groups with total fetal liver glycogen. Neuropeptide Y, agouti-related peptide (orexigenic) and proopiomelanocortin (anorexigenic) mRNAs were not different between groups. Insulin receptor mRNA in the ARC was increased in H, H + early GH and H + late GH fetuses and correlated negatively with fetal plasma insulin. Leptin receptor mRNA in the ARC correlated positively with fetal plasma leptin concentration and fetal fat content. Therefore, in IUGR fetuses, a key anorexigenic neuropeptide is sensitive to altered glucose supply and the hypothalamic leptin-signaling pathway is altered prenatally by increased adiposity and leptinemia. These changes could impact on postnatal energy balance regulation. (C) 2011 ISDN. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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