Maternal exercise before and during pregnancy alleviates metabolic dysfunction associated with high-fat diet in pregnant mice, without significant changes in gut microbiota

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 42-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunhee Chung ◽  
Katherine A. Grue ◽  
Gurvinder Kaur ◽  
Brian Mallory ◽  
Christian R. Serrano ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Jun Seok Son ◽  
Yanting Chen ◽  
Song Ah Chae ◽  
Ke Chen ◽  
Mei-Jun Zhu ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Chun Lin ◽  
Hsiu-Chen Huang ◽  
Yu-Heng Lai ◽  
Jui-Chieh Chen ◽  
Hsiao-Hsuan Tien ◽  
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Abstract Background Obesity and its associated conditions, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), are a particular worldwide health problem at present. Momordica cochinchinensis fruit is consumed widely in Southeast Asia. However, whether it has functional effects on fat-induced metabolic dysfunction and gut microbiota remains unclear. This study was conducted to determine how Momordica cochinchinensis aril (MCA) affects obesity, nonalcoholic fatty liver, insulin resistance and gut microbiota in diet-induced obese mice.Methods Wild type male mice at age of 5 weeks received four different kinds of diets: a normal diet, high-fat diet (HFD), or HFD supplemented with 1% or 3% (wt:wt) lyophilized MCA for 10 weeks. Body weight, adipose tissue and liver weight, serum biochemical parameters, glucose tolerance and liver lipids were measured. Gut microbial composition was analyzed.Results MCA protected the mice against high-fat diet (HFD)-induced body weight gain, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia, compared with mice that were not treated. MCA inhibited the expansion of adipose tissue and adipocyte hypertrophy. In addition, the insulin sensitivity-associated index that evaluates insulin function was also significantly restored. MCA also regulated the secretion of adipokines in HFD-induced obese mice. Moreover, hepatic fat accumulation and liver inflammation were reduced, which suggested that fatty liver was prevented by MCA. Furthermore, MCA supplementation suppressed hepatic lipid accumulation by activation of AMPK and PPAR-alpha signaling pathway in the human fatty liver HuS-E/2 cell model. Supplementation with MCA resulted in microbiota populations changed significantly.Conclusion Our data indicate that dietary MCA is involved in the prevention of HFD-induced adiposity, insulin resistance and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and altered the microbial contents of the gut and modulated microbial dysbiosis in the host.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liyuan Zhou ◽  
Xinhua Xiao ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Ming Li ◽  
Miao Yu

Abstract Background: Early-life overnutrition programs increased risks of metabolic disorders in adulthood. Regular exercise is widely accepted to be an effective measure to maintain metabolic health. However, the transgenerational effects of maternal exercise and the specific mechanism are largely unclear. Aims: Our objective was to investigate whether maternal exercise could alleviate the metabolic disturbances induced by early-life overnutrition in both dams and offspring and to explore the role of gut microbiota-liver axis in mediating the transgenerational metabolic reprogramming. Methods: C57BL/6 females were randomly divided into three groups 3 weeks before mating and during pregnancy: the control group, high-fat group, and high-fat with exercise group (voluntary wheel running training). They received their original diets during lactation. The male offspring had ad libitum access to chow diet from weaning to 24 weeks of age. Glucose tolerance test and serum biochemical parameters were detected. The cecal contents from dams at weaning and 8-week and 24 week of offspring were collected for 16s rDNA sequencing. Hepatic HE staining and transcriptome were performed in adult offspring. Results: The results showed that perinatal high-fat diet resulted in significant glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and lipid profiles disorders in both dams and offspring. Maternal exercise markedly improved insulin sensitivity in dams and metabolic disorders in offspring from young into adulthood, especially the hepatic steatosis. The decrease in harmful bacteria and the persistent enrichment of short chain fatty acid producers from mothers to adult offspring, particularly the genus Odoribacter, were all associated with improvement in metabolism by maternal exercise. In addition, maternal exercise significant upregulated FGF21 and genes involved in the fatty acid oxidation and TCA cycle in adult offspring, which were down-regulated by perinatal high-fat diet and were significantly correlated with the altered microbial species. Conclusion: Overall, maternal exercise could significantly mitigate the detrimental effects of perinatal high-fat diet on metabolism in both dams and male offspring. The continuous alterations in gut microbiota and reprogramming hepatic metabolism might be critical factors in deciphering the transgenerational metabolic benefits of maternal exercise, which provides some novel evidence and targets for combating the metabolic diseases.


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2021 ◽  
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Hu Hua ◽  
Yue Zhang ◽  
Fei Zhao ◽  
Ke Chen ◽  
Tong Wu ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilin Liu ◽  
Chunyan Xie ◽  
Zhenya Zhai ◽  
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Hugo R. De Jonge ◽  
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of uridine on obesity, fat accumulation in liver, and gut microbiota composition in high-fat diet-fed mice.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalpana D. Acharya ◽  
Xing Gao ◽  
Elizabeth P. Bless ◽  
Jun Chen ◽  
Marc J. Tetel

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2021 ◽  
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In this study, Ougan juice (OJ) and lactic acid bacteria fermented Ougan juice (FOJ) were investigated individually for their capability of preventing obesity in high-fat diet (HFD)-fed C57BL/6J mice. After...


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