Impact of perinatal maternal docosahexaenoic acid-containing phospholipid synthesis on offspring growth and neurological symptoms

Abstract Mothers provide essential nutrients, including docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid, during the perinatal period. DHA deficiency in perinatal mothers is linked to developmental abnormalities, especially in the central nervous system of the offspring; however, its specific impact on distinct events in fetal and neonatal brain development and prospective brain functions remains incompletely understood. We demonstrated using mice lackingAgpat3, a gene encoding the enzyme that synthesizes DHA-containing phospholipids (DHA-PLs), that maternal DHA-PL synthesis significantly contributes to the maternal– offspring DHA supply during the fetal period but not in infancy. Selective modulation of DHA-PL levels during fetal and postnatal periods inAgpat3-knockout mice showed that fetal stage-specific insufficiency in maternal DHA-PL supply potentially influences the neuropsychiatric phenotype in adult mice without affecting postnatal tissue DHA-PL levels, weight gain, and brain expansion. Collectively, enhancing maternal DHA-PL synthesis during pregnancy may help prevent prospective neuropsychiatric abnormalities in the offspring..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 10. Jan. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kanatani, Ayumi [VerfasserIn]
Hishikawa, Daisuke [VerfasserIn]
Nagata, Katsuyuki [VerfasserIn]
Hamano, Fumie [VerfasserIn]
Nakano, Kenta [VerfasserIn]
Okamura, Tadashi [VerfasserIn]
Shimizu, Takao [VerfasserIn]
Shindou, Hideo [VerfasserIn]
Nagamatsu, Takeshi [VerfasserIn]
Yanagida, Keisuke [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2024.01.06.574487

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XBI042099455