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Andrés S, Gini C, Ceciliani F, Gutiérrez-Expósito D, Arteche-Villasol N, Martín A, Cremonesi P, Faré F, Ghaffari MH, Giráldez FJ, Abdennebi-Najar L. Essential oil supplementation in milk replacers: short- and long-term impacts on feed efficiency, the faecal microbiota and the plasma metabolome in dairy calves. J Dev Orig Health Dis 2024; 15:e5. [PMID: 38563206 DOI: 10.1017/s2040174424000084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Early supplementation with oregano essential oil (EO) in milk replacer (MR) may improve growth, immune responses, the microbiota and the metabolome in dairy calves during pre-weaning and in adulthood. Sixteen female dairy calves (3 days of age) were divided in two groups (n = 8/group): the control group (no EO) and the EO group (0.23 ml of EO in MR during 45 days). After weaning, calves were kept in a feedlot and fed ad libitum. The animals were weighed, and blood and faecal samples were collected on days 3 (T0), 45 (T1) and 370 (T2) to measure the biochemical profile and characterise peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs; CD4+, CD8+, CD14+, CD21+ and WC1+), the metabolome and microbiota composition. The EO group only had greater average daily weight gain during the suckling (EO supplementation) period (P = 0.030). The EO group showed higher average CD14+ population (monocytes) values, a lower abundance of Ruminococcaceae UCG-014, Faecalibacterium, Blautia and Alloprevotella and increased abundances of Allistipes and Akkermansia. The modification of some metabolites in plasma, such as butyric acid, 3-indole-propionic acid and succinic acid, particularly at T1, are consistent with intestinal microbiota changes. The data suggest that early EO supplementation increases feed efficiency only during the suckling period with notable changes in the microbiota and plasma metabolome; however, not all of these changes can be considered desirable from a gut health point of view. Additional research studies is required to demonstrate that EOs are a viable natural alternative to antibiotics for improving calf growth performance and health.
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- Sonia Andrés
- Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (CSIC-Universidad de León), León, Spain
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy
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- Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (CSIC-Universidad de León), León, Spain
- Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, León, Spain
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- Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (CSIC-Universidad de León), León, Spain
- Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, León, Spain
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- Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (CSIC-Universidad de León), León, Spain
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Genomics, Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology, IBBA-CNR, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Institute for Animal Science Physiology Unit, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (CSIC-Universidad de León), León, Spain
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- Quality and Health Department, IDELE Institute, Paris, France
- Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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Zaoui M, Louadj L, Ferrand N, Nehme R, Sabbah M, Abdennebi-Najar L. Carcinogenic effect of low doses of polycyclic and heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and amines and lack of protection by inulin supplementation. Food Chem Toxicol 2024; 185:114454. [PMID: 38237855 DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2024.114454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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Evidence suggests that meat processing and heat treatment may increase cancer risk through exposure to potentially carcinogenic compounds, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs). This study aims to investigate the effect of low concentrations of PAHs and HAAs (from 1 to 100 μmol/L/24h and 48h) in colorectal tumor cells (HT-29, HCT116, and LS174T) and to evaluate the effect of PAHs in the presence of inulin in mice. In vitro, the 4-PAHs have no effect on healthy colon cells but decreased the viability of the colorectal tumor cells and activated the mRNA and protein expressions of CYP1A1 and CYP1B1. In vivo, in mice with colitis induced by 3% DSS, the 4-PAHs (equimolar mix at 50,100, 150 mg/kg.bw, orally 3 times a week for 3 weeks) induced a loss of body weight and tumor formation. Inulin (10 g/L) had no effect on colon length and tumor formation. A significant decrease in the loss of b.w was observed in inulin group as compared to the fiber free group. These results underscore the importance of considering the biological association between low-dose exposure to 4-HAPs and diet-related colon tumors.
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- Maurice Zaoui
- Sorbonne Université-INSERM UMR 938, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Institut Universitaire de Cancérologie (IUC), Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université-INSERM UMR 938, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Institut Universitaire de Cancérologie (IUC), Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université-INSERM UMR 938, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Institut Universitaire de Cancérologie (IUC), Paris, France
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- Quality and Health Department, IDELE Institute, 149 Rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université-INSERM UMR 938, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Institut Universitaire de Cancérologie (IUC), Paris, France
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- Quality and Health Department, IDELE Institute, 149 Rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris, France; Sorbonne Université-INSERM UMR 938, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Institut Universitaire de Cancérologie (IUC), Paris, France.
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Pereira RB, Rahali FZ, Nehme R, Falleh H, Jemaa MB, Sellami IH, Ksouri R, Bouhallab S, Ceciliani F, Abdennebi-Najar L, Pereira DM. Anti-inflammatory activity of essential oils from Tunisian aromatic and medicinal plants and their major constituents in THP-1 macrophages. Food Res Int 2023; 167:112678. [PMID: 37087210 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2023.112678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Revised: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023]
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In this study, the capacity of eight essential oils (EOs), sage (Salvia officinalis), coriander (Coriandrum sativum), rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), black cumin (Nigella sativa), prickly juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus), geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), oregano (Origanum vulgare) and wormwood (Artemisia herba-alba), on the inhibition of NF-κB activation was screened at concentrations up to 0.25 µL/mL using THP-1 human macrophages bearing a NF-κB reporter. This screening selected coriander, geranium, and wormwood EOs as the most active, which later evidenced the ability to decrease over 50 % IL-6, IL-1β, TNF-α and COX-2 mRNA expression in LPS-stimulated THP-1 macrophages. The chemical composition of selected EOs was performed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The two major constituents (>50 % of each EO) were tested at the same concentrations presented in each EO. It was demonstrated that the major compound or the binary mixtures of the two major compounds could explain the anti-inflammatory effects reported for the crude EOs. Additionally, the selected EOs also inhibit>50 % caspase-1 activity. However, this effect could not be attributed to the major components (except for β-citronellol/geranium oil, 40 %/65 % caspase-1 inhibition), suggesting, in addition to potential synergistic effects, the presence of minor compounds with caspase-1 inhibitory activity. These results demonstrated the potential use of the EOs obtained from Tunisian flora as valuable sources of anti-inflammatory agents providing beneficial health effects by reducing the levels of inflammatory mediators involved in the genesis of several diseases.
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Nehme R, Andrés S, Pereira RB, Ben Jemaa M, Bouhallab S, Ceciliani F, López S, Rahali FZ, Ksouri R, Pereira DM, Abdennebi-Najar L. Essential Oils in Livestock: From Health to Food Quality. Antioxidants (Basel) 2021; 10:330. [PMID: 33672283 PMCID: PMC7926721 DOI: 10.3390/antiox10020330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Revised: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Using plant essential oils (EOs) contributes to the growing number of natural plants' applications in livestock. Scientific data supporting the efficacy of EOs as anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antioxidant molecules accumulates over time; however, the cumulative evidence is not always sufficient. EOs antioxidant properties have been investigated mainly from human perspectives. Still, so far, our review is the first to combine the beneficial supporting properties of EOs in a One Health approach and as an animal product quality enhancer, opening new possibilities for their utilization in the livestock and nutrition sectors. We aim to compile the currently available data on the main anti-inflammatory effects of EOs, whether encapsulated or not, with a focus on mammary gland inflammation. We will also review the EOs' antioxidant activities when given in the diet or as a food preservative to counteract oxidative stress. We emphasize EOs' in vitro and in vivo ruminal microbiota and mechanisms of action to promote animal health and performance. Given the concept of DOHaD (Developmental Origin of Health and Diseases), supplementing animals with EOs in early life opens new perspectives in the nutrition sector. However, effective evaluation of the significant safety components is required before extending their use to livestock and veterinary medicine.
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- Ralph Nehme
- Quality and Health Department, IDELE Institute, 149 rue de Bercy, 75595 Paris CEDEX 12, France;
- INRAE, Institut Agro, STLO, F-35042 Rennes, France;
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- Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (CSIC-Universidad de León, Finca Marzanas s/n, 24346 Grulleros, Spain; (S.A.); (S.L.)
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- REQUIMTE/LAQV Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Department of Chemistry Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto R Jorge Viterbo Ferreir 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal; (R.B.P.); (D.M.P.)
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- Laboratory of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Biotechnology Center of Borj-Cédria, Hammam-Lif BP 901 2050, Tunisia; (M.B.J.); (F.Z.R.); (R.K.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine Università degli Studi di Milano, 20122 Milano, Italy;
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- Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (CSIC-Universidad de León, Finca Marzanas s/n, 24346 Grulleros, Spain; (S.A.); (S.L.)
- Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad de León, 24007 León, Spain
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- Laboratory of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Biotechnology Center of Borj-Cédria, Hammam-Lif BP 901 2050, Tunisia; (M.B.J.); (F.Z.R.); (R.K.)
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- Laboratory of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Biotechnology Center of Borj-Cédria, Hammam-Lif BP 901 2050, Tunisia; (M.B.J.); (F.Z.R.); (R.K.)
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- REQUIMTE/LAQV Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Department of Chemistry Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto R Jorge Viterbo Ferreir 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal; (R.B.P.); (D.M.P.)
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- Quality and Health Department, IDELE Institute, 149 rue de Bercy, 75595 Paris CEDEX 12, France;
- Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Sorbonne University, INSERM UMR_S_938, 75020 Paris, France
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Grandjean P, Abdennebi-Najar L, Barouki R, Cranor CF, Etzel RA, Gee D, Heindel JJ, Hougaard KS, Hunt P, Nawrot TS, Prins GS, Ritz B, Soffritti M, Sunyer J, Weihe P. Timescales of developmental toxicity impacting on research and needs for intervention. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol 2019; 125 Suppl 3:70-80. [PMID: 30387920 PMCID: PMC6497561 DOI: 10.1111/bcpt.13162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Much progress has happened in understanding developmental vulnerability to preventable environmental hazards. Along with the improved insight, the perspective has widened, and developmental toxicity now involves latent effects that can result in delayed adverse effects in adults or at old age and additional effects that can be transgenerationally transferred to future generations. Although epidemiology and toxicology to an increasing degree are exploring the adverse effects from developmental exposures in human beings, the improved documentation has resulted in little progress in protection, and few environmental chemicals are currently regulated to protect against developmental toxicity, whether it be neurotoxicity, endocrine disruption or other adverse outcome. The desire to obtain a high degree of certainty and verification of the evidence used for decision-making must be weighed against the costs and necessary duration of research, as well as the long-term costs to human health because of delayed protection of vulnerable early-life stages of human development and, possibly, future generations. Although two-generation toxicology tests may be useful for initial test purposes, other rapidly emerging tools need to be seriously considered from computational chemistry and metabolomics to CLARITY-BPA-type designs, big data and population record linkage approaches that will allow efficient generation of new insight; epigenetic mechanisms may necessitate a set of additional regulatory tests to reveal such effects. As reflected by the Prenatal Programming and Toxicity (PPTOX) VI conference, the current scientific understanding and the timescales involved require an intensified approach to protect against preventable adverse health effects that can harm the next generation and generations to come. While further research is needed, the main emphasis should be on research translation and timely public health intervention to avoid serious, irreversible and perhaps transgenerational harm.
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- Philippe Grandjean
- Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- INSERM UMR-S 1124, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, California
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- Milken Institute, School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Institute of Environment, Health and Societies, Brunel University, London, UK
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- Program in Endocrine Disruption Strategies, Commonweal, Bolinas, California
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- National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- School of Molecular Biosciences and Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
- Department of Public Health, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
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- Chicago Center for Health and Environment (CACHET), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California
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- Ramazzini Institute, Bologna, Italy
- European Foundation for Cancer Research, Environmental and Occupational Diseases "Ruberti Schileo", Treviso, Italy
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Public Health and Occupational Medicine, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
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Storme L, Luton D, Abdennebi-Najar L, Le Huërou-Luron I. [DOHaD: long-term impact of perinatal diseases (IUGR and prematurity)]. Med Sci (Paris) 2016; 32:74-80. [PMID: 26850610 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20163201012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The first epidemiological studies showing a link between low birth weight and chronic diseases in adults did not distinguish the origins of low birth weight. A low birth weight may be the result of a premature birth. It can also be caused by an intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). A child can be both preterm and IUGR. It is clear now that prematurity is an independent risk factor for programming chronic adult diseases. However, unlike adults born IUGR, adults born prematurely do not have an increased risk to develop metabolic syndrome (dyslipidemia or obesity). An increased risk of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric morbidity and hypertension is found after a premature birth. Mechanisms of chronic diseases programming are multiple: they involve both the cause of prematurity and IUGR such as infection / inflammation or placental insufficiency, but also consequences for therapeutic or nutritional strategies needed to support these children. This chapter describes the possible prevention of perinatal programming of noncommunicable diseases.
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- Laurent Storme
- EA4489, environnement périnatal et santé, faculté de médecine, université Lille 2, hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, CHRU de Lille, 1, rue Eugène Avinée, Lille, France
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- Maternité, hôpitaux universitaires Paris Nord Val-de-Seine, Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, université Paris VII, Paris, France
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- UP 2012.10.101, Expression des gènes et régulation épigénétique par l'aliment, institut polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, France
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- UR1341, alimentation et adaptations digestives, nerveuses et comportementales, Inra, Saint-Gilles, France
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Elmhiri G, Hamoudi D, Dou S, Bahi-Jaber N, Reygnier J, Larcher T, Firmin S, Abdennebi-Najar L. Antioxidant properties of formula derived Maillard reaction products in colons of intrauterine growth restricted pigs. Food Funct 2016; 7:2582-90. [DOI: 10.1039/c5fo01551k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The present study has been conducted to evaluate the impact of the consumption of high MRP formula on changes in the microbiota and oxidative stress in the colon of IUGR piglets.
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- Ghada Elmhiri
- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101 Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais
- Beauvais Cedex
- France
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- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101 Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais
- Beauvais Cedex
- France
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- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101 Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais
- Beauvais Cedex
- France
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- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101 Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais
- Beauvais Cedex
- France
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- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101 Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais
- Beauvais Cedex
- France
- Laboratoire Périnatalité et Risques Toxiques (PERITOX)
- UMR-I01 INERIS
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- INRA
- UMR 703 APEX
- Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation Nantes-Atlantique (Oniris)
- Nantes
- France
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- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101 Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais
- Beauvais Cedex
- France
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Malta A, de Moura EG, Ribeiro TA, Tófolo LP, Abdennebi-Najar L, Vieau D, Barella LF, de Freitas Mathias PC, Lisboa PC, de Oliveira JC. Protein-energy malnutrition at mid-adulthood does not imprint long-term metabolic consequences in male rats. Eur J Nutr 2015; 55:1423-33. [PMID: 26133298 DOI: 10.1007/s00394-015-0960-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2014] [Accepted: 06/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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PURPOSE The long-term effects of the development of chronic metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity have been associated with nutritional insults in critical life stages. In this study, we evaluated the effect of a low-protein diet on metabolism in mid-adulthood male rats. METHODS At 90 days of age, Wistar male rats were fed a low-protein diet (4.0 %, LP group) for 30 days, whereas control rats were fed a normal-protein diet (20.5 %, NP group) throughout their lifetimes. To allow for dietary rehabilitation, from 120 to 180 days of age, the LP rats were fed a normal-protein diet. Then, we measured body composition, fat stores, glucose-insulin homeostasis and pancreatic islet function. RESULTS At 120 days of age, just after low-protein diet treatment, the LP rats displayed a strong lean phenotype, hypoinsulinemia, as assessed under fasting and glucose tolerance test conditions, as well as weak pancreatic islet insulinotropic response to glucose and acetylcholine (p < 0.01). At 180 days of age, after poor-protein diet rehabilitation, the LP rats displayed a slight lean phenotype (p < 0.05), which was associated with a high body weight gain (p < 0.001). Additionally, fat pad accumulation, glycemia and insulinemia, as well as the pancreatic islet insulinotropic response, were not significantly different between the LP and NP rats (p > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Taken together, the present data suggest that the effects of dietary restriction as a stressor in adulthood are reversible with dietary rehabilitation, indicating that adulthood is not a sensitive or critical time window for metabolic programming.
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- Ananda Malta
- Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Genetic and Cell Biology, State University of Maringa/UEM, Block H67, Room 19, Colombo Avenue 5790, Maringá, PR, 87020-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology, Department of Physiological Sciences, Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Genetic and Cell Biology, State University of Maringa/UEM, Block H67, Room 19, Colombo Avenue 5790, Maringá, PR, 87020-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Genetic and Cell Biology, State University of Maringa/UEM, Block H67, Room 19, Colombo Avenue 5790, Maringá, PR, 87020-900, Brazil
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- Maternal Perinatal Undernutrition Team, Perinatal Environment and Growth Laboratory, Lille-North of France University, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
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- Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Genetic and Cell Biology, State University of Maringa/UEM, Block H67, Room 19, Colombo Avenue 5790, Maringá, PR, 87020-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Genetic and Cell Biology, State University of Maringa/UEM, Block H67, Room 19, Colombo Avenue 5790, Maringá, PR, 87020-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology, Department of Physiological Sciences, Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Genetic and Cell Biology, State University of Maringa/UEM, Block H67, Room 19, Colombo Avenue 5790, Maringá, PR, 87020-900, Brazil.
- Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology, Department of Physiological Sciences, Biology Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
- Health Sciences Institute, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Sinop, MT, Brazil.
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Elmhiri G, Mahmood DFD, Niquet-Leridon C, Jacolot P, Firmin S, Guigand L, Tessier FJ, Larcher T, Abdennebi-Najar L. Formula-derived advanced glycation end products are involved in the development of long-term inflammation and oxidative stress in kidney of IUGR piglets. Mol Nutr Food Res 2015; 59:939-47. [DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201400722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2014] [Revised: 12/31/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Ghada Elmhiri
- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101, Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais; Beauvais France
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- UMR 8256 UPMC Université Paris 6, CNRS INSERM; Department of Adaptation and Ageing Biology 8256/ERL 1164; Paris France
- Biology Department; School of Science/University of Sulaimani; Sulaimani-KRG Iraq
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- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101, Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais; Beauvais France
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- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101, Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais; Beauvais France
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- INRA; UMR 703 APEX; Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation Nantes-Atlantique (Oniris); Nantes France
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- UP-EGEAL 2012.10.101, Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais; Beauvais France
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- INRA; UMR 703 APEX; Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation Nantes-Atlantique (Oniris); Nantes France
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Tófolo LP, da Silva Ribeiro TA, Malta A, Miranda RA, Gomes RM, de Oliveira JC, Abdennebi-Najar L, de Almeida DL, Trombini AB, da Silva Franco CC, Pavanello A, Fabricio GS, Rinaldi W, Barella LF, de Freitas Mathias PC, Palma-Rigo K. Short-term moderate exercise provides long-lasting protective effects against metabolic dysfunction in rats fed a high-fat diet. Eur J Nutr 2014; 54:1353-62. [DOI: 10.1007/s00394-014-0816-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2014] [Accepted: 12/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Mostyn A, Attig L, Larcher T, Dou S, Chavatte-Palmer P, Boukthir M, Gertler A, Djiane J, E Symonds M, Abdennebi-Najar L. UCP1 is present in porcine adipose tissue and is responsive to postnatal leptin. J Endocrinol 2014; 223:M31-8. [PMID: 25122002 DOI: 10.1530/joe-14-0155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) may be accompanied by inadequate thermoregulation, especially in piglets that are not considered to possess any brown adipose tissue (BAT) and are thus entirely dependent on shivering thermogenesis in order to maintain body temperature after birth. Leptin can stimulate heat production by promoting non-shivering thermogenesis in BAT, but whether this response occurs in piglets is unknown. Newborn female piglets that were characterised as showing IUGR (mean birth weight of approximately 0.98 kg) were therefore administered injections of either saline or leptin once a day for the first 5 days of neonatal life. The dose of leptin was 0.5 mg/kg, which is sufficient to increase plasma leptin by approximately tenfold and on the day of birth induced a rapid increase in body temperature to values similar to those of normal-sized 'control' piglets (mean birth weight of ∼1.47 kg). Perirenal adipose tissue was then sampled from all offspring at 21 days of age and the presence of the BAT-specific uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) was determined by immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting. UCP1 was clearly detectable in all samples analysed and its abundance was significantly reduced in the IUGR piglets that had received saline compared with controls, but was raised to the same amount as in controls in those IUGR females given leptin. There were no differences in gene expression between primary markers of brown and white adipose tissues between groups. In conclusion, piglets possess BAT that when stimulated exogenously by leptin can promote increased body temperature.
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- Alison Mostyn
- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- UP 2012.10.101 EGEALInstitut Polytechnique LaSalle, Beauvais, FranceSchool of Veterinary Medicine and ScienceUniversity of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Nottingham, UKINRA UMR 703Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Nantes, FranceINRAUMR1198 BDR Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceUnité de Recherche 04UR08/03Faculté de Médecine, Tunis, TunisiaThe Hebrew University of JerusalemPO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, IsraelUnité NOPAINRA, Centre de recherche Jouy en Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, FranceEarly Life Research UnitAcademic Child Health, School of Medicine, University Hospital, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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Malta A, de Oliveira JC, Ribeiro TADS, Tófolo LP, Barella LF, Prates KV, Miranda RA, Elmhiri G, Franco CCDS, Agostinho AR, Trombini AB, Pavanello A, Gravena C, Abdennebi-Najar L, Mathias PCDF. Low-protein diet in adult male rats has long-term effects on metabolism. J Endocrinol 2014; 221:285-95. [PMID: 24599936 DOI: 10.1530/joe-13-0473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Nutritional insults during developmental plasticity have been linked with metabolic diseases such as diabetes in adulthood. We aimed to investigate whether a low-protein (LP) diet at the beginning of adulthood is able to program metabolic disruptions in rats. While control rats ate a normal-protein (23%; NP group) diet, treated rats were fed a LP (4%; LP group) diet from 60 to 90 days of age, after which an NP diet was supplied until they were 150 days old. Plasma levels of glucose and insulin, autonomous nervous system (ANS), and pancreatic islet function were then evaluated. Compared with the NP group, LP rats exhibited unchanged body weight and reduced food intake throughout the period of protein restriction; however, after the switch to the NP diet, hyperphagia of 10% (P<0.05), and catch-up growth of 113% (P<0.0001) were found. The LP rats showed hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, and higher fat accretion than the NP rats. While the sympathetic tonus from LP rats reduced by 28%, the vagus tonus increased by 21% (P<0.05). Compared with the islets from NP rats, the glucose insulinotropic effect as well as cholinergic and adrenergic actions was unaltered in the islets from LP rats. Protein restriction at the beginning of adulthood induced unbalanced ANS activity and fat tissue accretion later in life, even without functional disturbances in the pancreatic islets.
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- Ananda Malta
- Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Block H67, Room 19, State University of Maringá, Colombo Avenue 5970, 87020-900 Maringá, Parana, Brazil UPSP-EGEAL Institut Polytechnique LaSalle de Beauvais, Beauvais Cedex, France
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Mathias PCF, Elmhiri G, de Oliveira JC, Delayre-Orthez C, Barella LF, Tófolo LP, Fabricio GS, Chango A, Abdennebi-Najar L. Maternal diet, bioactive molecules, and exercising as reprogramming tools of metabolic programming. Eur J Nutr 2014; 53:711-22. [DOI: 10.1007/s00394-014-0654-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2013] [Accepted: 01/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Elmhiri G, Barella LF, Vieau D, Camous S, Mathias PCF, Abdennebi-Najar L. Acute exposure to a precursor of advanced glycation end products induces a dual effect on the rat pancreatic islet function. Int J Endocrinol 2014; 2014:378284. [PMID: 25484898 PMCID: PMC4248554 DOI: 10.1155/2014/378284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2014] [Accepted: 10/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Aim. Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Advanced glycation end products, known as AGEs, are a major risk factor for diabetes onset and maintenance. Methylglyoxal (MG), a highly reactive metabolite of glucose, is a precursor for the generation of endogenous AGEs. Methods. In this current study we incubated in vitro pancreatic islets from adult rats in absence or presence of MG (10 μmol/l) with different concentrations of glucose and different metabolic components (acetylcholine, epinephrine, potassium, forskolin, and leucine). Results. Different effects of MG on insulin secretion were evidenced. In basal glucose stimulation (5.6 mM), MG induced a significant (P < 0.05) increase of insulin secretion. By contrast, in higher glucose concentrations (8.3 mM and 16.7 mM), MG significantly inhibited insulin secretion (P < 0.05). In the presence of potassium, forskolin, and epinephrine, MG enhanced insulin secretion (P < 0.05), while when it was incubated with acetylcholine and leucine, MG resulted in a decrease of insulin secretion (P < 0.05). Conclusion. We suggest that MG modulates the secretion activity of beta-cell depending on its level of stimulation by other metabolic factors. These results provide insights on a dual acute effect of MG on the pancreatic cells.
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- Ghada Elmhiri
- Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, EGEAL-UP 2012.10.101., 19 rue Pierre Waguet, 60026 Beauvais Cedex, France
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- Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Environnement Périnatal et Croissance (EA4489), Equipe Dénutritions Maternelles Périnatales, SN4, Université de Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- INRA, UMR1198, Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, 78352 Jouy en Josas, France
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- Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, EGEAL-UP 2012.10.101., 19 rue Pierre Waguet, 60026 Beauvais Cedex, France
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Boudalia S, Berges R, Chabanet C, Folia M, Decocq L, Pasquis B, Abdennebi-Najar L, Canivenc-Lavier MC. A multi-generational study on low-dose BPA exposure in Wistar rats: effects on maternal behavior, flavor intake and development. Neurotoxicol Teratol 2013; 41:16-26. [PMID: 24269606 DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2013.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2012] [Revised: 11/01/2013] [Accepted: 11/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is a common endocrine disruptor found as an environmental and food contaminant. It exerts both developmental and behavioral effects, mainly when exposure occurs in early life. The aim of this study was to determine the multi-generational effects of chronic, human-relevant low-dose exposure to BPA on development, maternal behavior and flavor preference in Wistar rats. BPA was orally administered at a daily dose of 5 μg/kg body weight to F0 pregnant dams from the first day of gestation (GD 1) until the last day of lactation (LD 21), and then to F1 offspring from weaning (PND 21) to adulthood (PND 100). F2 offspring were not exposed. Development and clinical signs of toxicity were assessed daily. Maternal behavior was evaluated by observing nursing and pup-caring actions, as well as "non-maternal" behaviors in F0 and F1 dams from parturition until LD 8. The flavor preferences of F1 and F2 offspring were evaluated based on the intake of sweet, salt and fat solutions using the two-bottle choice test on PND 21-34 and PND 86-99. BPA exposure: 1) decreased maternal behavior in F1 dams, 2) caused developmental defects in both F1 and F2 offspring, with a noticeable decrease in anogenital distance in male rats, and 3) did not affect flavored solution intake in F1, but induced changes in sweet preference in F2 juveniles and in salt and fat solution intakes in F2 adults, and 4) induced a body weight increase in the F2 generation only, whereas food intake and water consumption did not change. Taken as a whole, our findings showed that both gestational (F0) and lifelong (F1) exposures to a human-relevant dose of BPA could induce multi-generational effects on both development and behavior. These results suggest possible selective neuroendocrine defects and/or epigenetic changes caused by BPA exposure.
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- Sofiane Boudalia
- INRA, UMR1324, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; CNRS, UMR6265, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; Université de Bourgogne, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France
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- INRA, UMR1324, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; CNRS, UMR6265, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; Université de Bourgogne, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France
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- INRA, UMR1324, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; CNRS, UMR6265, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; Université de Bourgogne, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France
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- INRA, UMR1324, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; CNRS, UMR6265, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; Université de Bourgogne, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon, 21000 Dijon, France
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- INRA, UMR1324, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; CNRS, UMR6265, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; Université de Bourgogne, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France
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- INRA, UMR1324, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; CNRS, UMR6265, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; Université de Bourgogne, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France
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- INRA, UMR1324, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; CNRS, UMR6265, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France; Université de Bourgogne, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, 21000 Dijon, France.
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Attig L, Brisard D, Larcher T, Mickiewicz M, Guilloteau P, Boukthir S, Niamba CN, Gertler A, Djiane J, Monniaux D, Abdennebi-Najar L. Postnatal leptin promotes organ maturation and development in IUGR piglets. PLoS One 2013; 8:e64616. [PMID: 23741353 PMCID: PMC3669417 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2012] [Accepted: 04/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Babies with intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) are at increased risk for experiencing negative neonatal outcomes due to their general developmental delay. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of a short postnatal leptin supply on the growth, structure, and functionality of several organs at weaning. IUGR piglets were injected from day 0 to day 5 with either 0.5 mg/kg/d leptin (IUGRLep) or saline (IUGRSal) and euthanized at day 21. Their organs were collected, weighed, and sampled for histological, biochemical, and immunohistochemical analyses. Leptin induced an increase in body weight and the relative weights of the liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, and small intestine without any changes in triglycerides, glucose and cholesterol levels. Notable structural and functional changes occurred in the ovaries, pancreas, and secondary lymphoid organs. The ovaries of IUGRLep piglets contained less oogonia but more oocytes enclosed in primordial and growing follicles than the ovaries of IUGRSal piglets, and FOXO3A staining grade was higher in the germ cells of IUGRLep piglets. Within the exocrine parenchyma of the pancreas, IUGRLep piglets presented a high rate of apoptotic cells associated with a higher trypsin activity. In the spleen and the Peyer's patches, B lymphocyte follicles were much larger in IUGRLep piglets than in IUGRSal piglets. Moreover, IUGRLep piglets showed numerous CD79(+) cells in well-differentiated follicle structures, suggesting a more mature immune system. This study highlights a new role for leptin in general developmental processes and may provide new insight into IUGR pathology.
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- Linda Attig
- UPSP EGEAL Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, Beauvais, France
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- INRA, UMR85 Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France
- CNRS, UMR7247, Nouzilly, France
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France
- IFCE, Nouzilly, France
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- INRA, Unité 1341, Nutrition et Adaptations Digestives, Nerveuses et Comportementales (ADNC), Saint Gilles, France
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- INRA, Unité 1341, Nutrition et Adaptations Digestives, Nerveuses et Comportementales (ADNC), Saint Gilles, France
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- Tunis El Manar University, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics “C”, RU12SP09, Tunis, Tunisia
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- The Robert Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Rehovot, Israel
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- INRA, Centre de recherche, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- INRA, UMR85 Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France
- CNRS, UMR7247, Nouzilly, France
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France
- IFCE, Nouzilly, France
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Attig L, Larcher T, Gertler A, Abdennebi-Najar L, Djiane J. Postnatal leptin is necessary for maturation of numerous organs in newborn rats. Organogenesis 2011; 7:88-94. [PMID: 21378499 DOI: 10.4161/org.7.2.14871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The postnatal leptin surge, described particularly in rodents, has been demonstrated to be crucial for hypothalamic maturation and brain development. In the present study, the possible general effects of this hormone on maturation of numerous peripheral organs have been explored. To test this hypothesis, we used a leptin antagonist (L39A/D40A/F41A) to investigate the effects of the blockage of postnatal leptin action on neonatal growth and maturation of organs involved in metabolism regulation, reproduction and immunity. For that purpose, newborn female pups were subcutaneously injected from days 2-13 with either saline or leptin antagonist and sacrificed at weaning. Organs were submitted to histological and immunohistochemical analyses. Leptin antagonist treatment clearly impaired the maturation of pancreas, kidney, thymus and ovary. All these alterations, at the organ level, occurred without changes in the whole-body mass of the animals. Leptin antagonist treatment induced: (1) a reduction in b cell area and a concomitant increase of a cells in Langherans islets in the pancreas, (2) a reduction in the number of glomeruli and a persistence of immature glomeruli in kidney, (3) an increase in the thymic cortical layer thickness, reflecting an unmatured stage, (4) a drastic reduction of the pool of primordial follicles, in ovaries. All these results strongly argue for a crucial role of leptin for the achievement of organ maturation, opening new perspectives in the field of leptin physiology and organ development.
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- Linda Attig
- Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Paris-Sud, France.
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Malaria induced by Plasmodium falciparum is a major cause of mortality. P. falciparum has the ability to use host plasma folate as its primary folate source. Folate is a cofactor needed for both malaria parasite growth and host erythrocyte production. This review examines the possible impairment of the folate-mediated one-carbon metabolism pathway as a result of P. falciparum malaria infection during pregnancy. Folate deficiency during malaria infection is presented, with an emphasis on the controversy regarding the decrease of plasma or erythrocyte folate secondary to malaria. Maternal folate deficiency increases the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Functional folate deficiency and/or increased plasma homocysteine levels during pregnancy of infected women in areas endemic for malaria is a probable scenario accentuating the impairment of placenta function leading to the occurrence of neural tube defects, low birth weights, and intrauterine growth retardations. Potential questions that may be answered in future investigations using an appropriate protocol to study pregnant women with malaria are also addressed.
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- Abalo Chango
- Department of Nutritional Sciences and Health, EGEAL Unit, Institut Polytechnique Lasalle Beauvais, Beauvais, France.
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Abdennebi-Najar L, Desai M, Han G, Casillas E, Jean D, Arieh G, Ross MG. Basal, endogenous leptin is metabolically active in newborn rat pups. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2011; 24:1486-91. [PMID: 21250909 DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2010.547638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The adipocyte-derived hormone leptin regulates food intake and body weight via the activation of JAK-STAT pathway in mammalian adult hypothalamic neurons. To investigate whether endogenous leptin is metabolically active in newborn rat pups, the JAK-STAT leptin signaling pathway was analyzed following leptin antagonist challenge. METHODS One day old male control pups were injected with either (i) saline, (ii) leptin (10 μg/g, s.c; n=4), (iii) pegylated leptin antagonist (PEG-MLA, 20 μg/g, s.c, n=4), or (iv) leptin plus PEG-MLA. Hypothalamus was dissected from individual pups at 30, 45, and 60 min. Protein expression of ObR, STAT3, pSTAT3, and SOCS3 was analyzed by Western blot. RESULTS Leptin, but not PEG-MLA, produced a significant increase in hypothalamic pSTAT3 relative to saline treatment. Systemically administered PEG-MLA effectively blocks leptin signal induction of hypothalamic JAK-STAT signaling. The presence of PEG-MLA in combination with leptin attenuated the leptin-induced increase in pSTAT3. CONCLUSIONS Thus, basal leptin levels are metabolically active in the newborn rats. These results brings new insights in considering the importance of endogenous leptin at birth, especially in low birth weight offspring who may be predisposed to altered neurogenesis and later obesity, and provide potential therapeutic strategies for programmed or diet-induced obesity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Latifa Abdennebi-Najar
- UPSP-EGEAL Institut Polytechnique LaSalle de Beauvais, 19 Rue Pierre Waguet, Beauvais Cedex, France.
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Sambroni E, Abdennebi-Najar L, Remy JJ, Le Gac F. Delayed sexual maturation through gonadotropin receptor vaccination in the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2009; 164:107-16. [PMID: 19467235 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2008] [Revised: 04/23/2009] [Accepted: 05/19/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In fish, gonadotropin hormones FSH-GTH1 and LH-GTH2 are less specific for their cognate receptors than in mammals. The respective reproductive functions of fish LH and FSH are thus difficult to establish. We aimed to study the effect of specific antagonists of the two gonadotropin receptors on trout sexual maturation in both sexes by targeting specific regions of LH and FSH receptors, Lhr and Fshr. Filamentous phages displaying Lhr specific or Fshr specific decapeptides from the extracellular hormone binding domain were engineered. Recombinant phages were used as receptor-specific antagonistic vaccines. Male and female trouts were immunized with anti-LHR, anti-FSHR, anti-FSHR+LHR or adjuvant alone, through multiple injections over 8-24 weeks, starting at different stages of sexual maturation. The consequences of immunization on gonadal development were evaluated by determining gonad growth, by histological analysis of testis and ovaries at the end of the vaccination period and by measuring blood plasma sex steroids using radioimmunoassay. We show for the first time in fish that the anti-receptor vaccinations could have specific antagonistic effects on the development of the reproductive functions; while the anti-FSHR affected the sexual maturation of prepubertal males and delayed sperm production, the anti-LHR blocked vitellogenesis in females. In maturing males, the combined anti-FSHR+LHR vaccine inhibited spermatogenesis and affected steroidogenesis. In that case, the effects of the vaccine on spermatogenesis were transient and reversible when immunization was stopped. Such an immunological strategy to specifically and transiently inhibit a receptor provides a promising approach for discovering their specific functions; it could also lead to a new technology for controlling the onset of puberty in aquaculture species.
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- Elisabeth Sambroni
- INRA, UR1037, SCRIBE (Station Commune de Recherches en Ichtyophysiologie Biodiversité et Environnement), Campus de Beaulieu, Fish Reproduction Research Group, IFR140, Ouest-Genopole, F-35000 Rennes, France
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Attig L, Djiane J, Gertler A, Rampin O, Larcher T, Boukthir S, Anton PM, Madec JY, Gourdou I, Abdennebi-Najar L. Study of hypothalamic leptin receptor expression in low-birth-weight piglets and effects of leptin supplementation on neonatal growth and development. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2008; 295:E1117-25. [PMID: 18780769 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.90542.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Low birth weight resulting from intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is a risk factor for further development of metabolic diseases. The pig appears to reproduce nearly all of the phenotypic pathological consequences of human IUGR and is likely to be more relevant than rodents in studies of neonatal development. In the present work, we characterized the model of low-birth-weight piglets with particular attention to the hypothalamic leptin-sensitive system, and we tested whether postnatal leptin supplementation can reverse the precocious signs of adverse metabolic programming. Our results demonstrated that 1) IUGR piglets present altered postnatal growth and increased adiposity; 2) IUGR piglets exhibit abnormal hypothalamic distribution of leptin receptors that may be linked to further disturbance in food-intake behavior; and 3) postnatal leptin administration can partially reverse the IUGR phenotype by correcting growth rate, body composition, and development of several organs involved in metabolic regulation. We conclude that IUGR may be characterized by altered leptin receptor distribution within the hypothalamic structures involved in metabolic regulation and that leptin supplementation can partially reverse the IUGR phenotype. These results open interesting therapeutic perspectives in physiopathology for the correction of defects observed in IUGR.
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- L Attig
- Université Paris-Sud, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 1197, Neurobiologie de l'Olfaction et de la Prise Alimentaire, Jouy-en-Josas.
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Belot MP, Abdennebi-Najar L, Gaudin F, Lieberherr M, Godot V, Taïeb J, Emilie D, Machelon V. Progesterone reduces the migration of mast cells toward the chemokine stromal cell-derived factor-1/CXCL12 with an accompanying decrease in CXCR4 receptors. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2007; 292:E1410-7. [PMID: 17468394 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00286.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mast cell recruitment is implicated in many physiological functions and several diseases. It depends on microenvironmental factors, including hormones. We have investigated the effect of progesterone on the migration of HMC-1(560) mast cells toward CXCL12, a chemokine that controls the migration of mast cells into tissues. HMC-1(560) mast cells were incubated with 1 nM to 1 microM progesterone for 24 h. Controls were run without progesterone. Cell migration toward CXCL12 was monitored with an in vitro assay, and statistical analysis of repeated experiments revealed that progesterone significantly reduced cell migration without increasing the number of apoptotic cells (P = 0.0084, n = 7). Differences between progesterone-treated and untreated cells were significant at 1 microM (P < 0.01, n = 7). Cells incubated with 1 microM progesterone showed no rearrangment of actin filaments in response to CXCL12. Progesterone also reduced the calcium response to CXCL12 and Akt phosphorylation. Cells incubated with progesterone had one-half the control concentrations of CXCR4 (mRNA, total protein, and membrane-bound protein). Progesterone also inhibited the migration of HMC-1(560) cells transfected with hPR-B-pSG5 plasmid, which contained 2.5 times as much PR-B as the control. These transfected cells responded differently (P < 0.05, n = 5) from untreated cells to 1 nM progesterone. We conclude that progesterone reduces mast cell migration toward CXCL12 and that CXCR4 may be a progesterone target in mast cells.
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MESH Headings
- Actins/metabolism
- Androstadienes/pharmacology
- Blotting, Western
- Calcium/metabolism
- Cell Movement/drug effects
- Cell Movement/physiology
- Chemokine CXCL12
- Chemokines, CXC/biosynthesis
- Chemokines, CXC/genetics
- Chemokines, CXC/metabolism
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Mast Cells/cytology
- Mast Cells/drug effects
- Mast Cells/metabolism
- Oncogene Protein v-akt/metabolism
- Phosphorylation/drug effects
- Progesterone/pharmacology
- Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Receptors, CXCR4/biosynthesis
- Receptors, CXCR4/genetics
- Receptors, CXCR4/metabolism
- Receptors, Progesterone/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Wortmannin
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- Marie-Pierre Belot
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Univ Paris-Sud 11, Institut Fédératif de Recherche 13, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Service de Microbiologie-Immunologie Biologique, Clamart, France
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Belot MP, Abdennebi-Najar L, Gaudin F, Emilie D, Machelon V. Progesterone increases csk homologous kinase in HMC-1560 human mast cells and reduces cell proliferation. J Cell Biochem 2007; 102:1271-80. [PMID: 17492661 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Mast cells proliferate in vivo in areas of active fibrosis, during parasite infestations, in response to repeated immediate hypersensitivity reactions and in patients with mastocytosis. We investigated how progesterone reduces the proliferation of HMC-1(560) mast cells that proliferate spontaneously in culture. Cells were incubated with 1 microM to 1 nM progesterone for 24-48 h. Progesterone (1 microM) reduced the spontaneous proliferation of HMC-1(560) mast cells to half that of cells cultured without hormone. [(3)H] thymidine incorporation was only 50% of control; there were fewer cells in G2/M and more cells in G0/G1. The amounts of phospho-Raf-1 (Tyr 340-341) and phospho-p42/p44 MAPK proteins were also reduced. In contrast progesterone had no effect on MAP kinase-phosphatase-1. The Raf/MAPK pathway, which depends on Src kinase activity, is implicated in the control of cell proliferation. HMC-1(560) cells incubated with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor PP1 proliferated more slowly than controls and had less phospho-Raf-1 (Tyr 340-341) and phospho-p42/p44 MAPK. The Csk homologous kinase (CHK), an endogenous inhibitor of Src protein tyrosine kinases, was also enhanced in progesterone-treated cells. In contrast, progesterone had no effect on the growth of cells transfected with siRNA CHK. We conclude that progesterone increases the amount of csk homologous kinase, which in turn reduces HMC-1(560) mast cell proliferation. This effect parallels decreases in the phosphorylated forms of Raf-1 and p42/44 MAPK, as their production depends on Src kinase activity.
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- Marie-Pierre Belot
- INSERM, U764, Univ Paris-Sud 11, Institut Fédératif de Recherche 13, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Service de Microbiologie-Immunologie Biologique, Clamart F-92140, France
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Chango A, Abdennebi-Najar L, Tessier F, Ferré S, Do S, Guéant JL, Nicolas JP, Willequet F. Quantitative methylation-sensitive arbitrarily primed PCR method to determine differential genomic DNA methylation in down syndrome. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 349:492-6. [PMID: 16949045 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.08.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2006] [Accepted: 08/02/2006] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Relative levels of DNA hypermethylation were quantified in DS individuals using a new method based on a combination of methylation-sensitive arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (MS-AP-PCR) and quantification of DNA fragments with the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer. Four of the DS individuals had low plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) level (4.3 +/- 0.3 micromol/l) and 4 other had high-tHcy level (14.1 +/- 0.9 micromol/l). Eight healthy control individuals were matched to the DS cases for age, sex, and tHcy levels. We have identified and quantified six hypermethylated fragments. Their sizes ranged from 230-bp to 700-bp. In cases and controls, low-tHcy did not affect methylation level of identified fragments, mean methylation values were 68.0 +/- 39.7% and 52.1 +/- 40.3%, respectively. DNA methylation in DS individuals did not change significantly (59.7+/-34.5%) in response to high-tHcy level in contrast to controls (23.4 +/- 17.7%, P = 0.02). Further, the quantitative MS-AP-PCR using this microfludic system is a useful method for determining differential genomic DNA methylation.
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- Abalo Chango
- ISAB, Department of Animal Science and Nutritional Science and Health, Beauvais, France.
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Recent studies from WHO indicated that a large proportion of human contraceptive needs cannot be covered by the already existing means for different reasons (medical, economical, political, and cultural). Therefore, development of new effective methods targeting birth control methods affordable by under-privileged populations turns out to be necessary. Over the last 20 years, a large number of strategies have been used for contraceptive vaccines and thus multiple antigens have been identified as potential targets for immunocontraception. Nowadays, the most acute researches are based on suppression of the secretion and the activity of gonadotropic hormones (GnRH, LH/hCG, FSH) or the targeting of antibodies specific to sperm surface (RSA-1, SP10, SP17, TCLe-1, PH-20) and oocyte antigens (ZP1, ZP2, ZP3). We developed a contraceptive vaccine against FSH receptor. Adult male monkeys (Macaca radiata) were immunized with filamentous phages displaying at their surface N-terminal peptides of the FSH receptor. Long term male contraception has been achieved without any alteration of circulating testosterone levels, sexual behaviour or of any other discernable metabolic changes. Interruption of vaccination resulted in full recovery of sperm production and male fertility. Contraceptive vaccines are aimed to block an essential step in the reproductive process. From this point of view, efforts have to be focused on the challenge to raise is to ally our knowledge on reproductive physiology and protein biochemistry for a better understanding of the target antigen's function.
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- L Abdennebi-Najar
- Laboratoire de génomique, département des sciences animales, sciences de la nutrition et santé, ISAB, rue Pierre-Waguet, 60026 Beauvais, France.
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