Exercise in obese female rats has beneficial effects on maternal and male and female offspring metabolism


Por: Vega C.C., Reyes-Castro L.A., Bautista C.J., Larrea F., Nathanielsz P.W., Zambrano E.

Publicada: 1 ene 2015
Resumen:
Background:Maternal obesity (MO) impairs maternal and offspring health. Mechanisms and interventions to prevent adverse maternal and offspring outcomes need to be determined. Human studies are confounded by socio-economic status providing the rationale for controlled animal data on effects of maternal exercise (MEx) intervention on maternal (F0) and offspring (F1) outcomes in MO.Hypothesis:MO produces metabolic and endocrine dysfunction, increases maternal and offspring glucocorticoid exposure, oxidative stress and adverse offspring outcomes by postnatal day (PND) 36. MEx in part prevents these outcomes.Methods:F0 female rats ate either control or obesogenic diet from weaning through lactation. Half of each group wheel ran (from day 90 of life through pregnancy beginning day 120) providing four groups (n=8/group) - (i) controls, (ii) obese, (III) exercised controls and (iv) exercised obese. After weaning, PND 21, F1 offspring ate a control diet. Metabolic parameters of F0 prepregnancy and end of lactation and F1 offspring at PND 36 were analyzed.Results:Exercise did not change maternal weight. Before breeding, MO elevated F0 glucose, insulin, triglycerides, cholesterol, leptin, fat and oxidative stress. Exercise completely prevented the triglyceride rise and partially increases glucose, insulin, cholesterol and oxidative stress. MO decreased fertility, recovered by exercise. At the end of lactation, exercise returned all metabolic variables except leptin to control levels. Exercise partially prevented MO elevated corticosterone. F1 offspring weights were similar at birth. At PND 36, MO increased F1 male but not female offspring leptin, triglycerides and fat mass. In controls, exercise reduced male and female offspring glucose, prevented the offspring leptin increase and partially the triglyceride rise.Conclusions:MEx before and during pregnancy has beneficial effects on the maternal and offspring metabolism and endocrine function occurring with no weight change in mothers and offspring indicating the importance of body composition rather than weight in evaluations of metabolic status.

Filiaciones:
Vega C.C.:
 Department of Reproductive Biology, National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán, Vasco de Quiroga 15, Mexico City, Mexico

 Biological Science School, Polytechnic National Institute, Mexico City, Mexico

Reyes-Castro L.A.:
 Department of Reproductive Biology, National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán, Vasco de Quiroga 15, Mexico City, Mexico

Bautista C.J.:
 Department of Reproductive Biology, National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán, Vasco de Quiroga 15, Mexico City, Mexico

Larrea F.:
 Department of Reproductive Biology, National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán, Vasco de Quiroga 15, Mexico City, Mexico

Nathanielsz P.W.:
 Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research, Department of Obstetrics, University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States

Zambrano E.:
 Department of Reproductive Biology, National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán, Vasco de Quiroga 15, Mexico City, Mexico
ISSN: 03070565
Editorial
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, MACMILLAN BUILDING, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON N1 9XW, ENGLAND, Reino Unido
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 39 Número: 4
Páginas: 712-719
WOS Id: 000352557500023
ID de PubMed: 23949616

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