Complex lipid globules in early-life nutrition improve long-term metabolic phenotype in intra-uterine growth-restricted rats

Teller IC, Hoyer-Kuhn H, Broenneke H, Nosthoff-Horstmann P, Oosting A, Lippach G, Wohlfarth M, Rauh M, Van Der Beek EM, Doetsch J, Nuesken KD (2018)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2018

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Book Volume: 120

Pages Range: 763-776

Journal Issue: 7

DOI: 10.1017/S0007114518001988

Abstract

Intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) is associated with adverse metabolic outcome later in life. Healthy mice challenged with a Western-style diet (WSD) accumulated less body fat when previously fed a diet containing large lipid globules (complex lipid matrix (CLM)). This study was designed to clarify whether an early-life CLM diet mitigates 'programmed' visceral adiposity and associated metabolic sequelae after IUGR. In rats, IUGR was induced either by bilateral uterine vessel ligation (LIG) or sham operation (i.e. intra-uterine stress) of the dam on gestational day 19. Offspring from non-operated (NOP) dams served as controls. Male offspring of all groups were either fed CLM or 'normal matrix' control diet (CTRL) from postnatal days (PND) 15 to 42. Thereafter, animals were challenged with a mild WSD until dissection (PND 98). Fat mass (micro computer-tomograph scan; weight of fat compartments), circulating metabolic markers and expression of 'metabolic' genes (quantitative real-time PCR) were assessed. CLM diet significantly reduced visceral fat mass in LIG at PND 40. At dissection, visceral fat mass, fasted blood glucose, TAG and leptin concentrations were significantly increased in LIG-CTRL v. NOP-CTRL, and significantly decreased in LIG-CLM v. LIG-CTRL. Gene expression levels of leptin (mesenteric fat) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (liver) were significantly reduced in LIG-CLM v. LIG-CTRL. In conclusion, early-life CLM diet mitigated the adverse metabolic phenotype after utero-placental insufficiency. The supramolecular structure of dietary lipids may be a novel aspect of nutrient quality that has to be considered in the context of primary prevention of obesity and metabolic disease in at-risk populations.

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Teller, I.C., Hoyer-Kuhn, H., Broenneke, H., Nosthoff-Horstmann, P., Oosting, A., Lippach, G.,... Nuesken, K.D. (2018). Complex lipid globules in early-life nutrition improve long-term metabolic phenotype in intra-uterine growth-restricted rats. British Journal of Nutrition, 120(7), 763-776. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007114518001988

MLA:

Teller, Inga C., et al. "Complex lipid globules in early-life nutrition improve long-term metabolic phenotype in intra-uterine growth-restricted rats." British Journal of Nutrition 120.7 (2018): 763-776.

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