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<p>Protein undernutrition results in impaired growth and neurobehavioural development in children. However, the impact of timing, environmental factors and maternal versus neonatal influences are unclear. Here, using a mouse model of fetal growth restriction where maternal protein intake is limited during pregnancy, we show that adult offspring exhibit cognitive and anxiety-like behavioural abnormalities. Cross-fostering newborn mice to dams previously exposed to either low protein or standard diet reveals that behavioural impairments in adult offspring require diet-induced conditioning of both fetal development and maternal peripartum physiology. Maternal gut microbiome diversity is reduced, maternal immune, milk, and serum metabolomic profiles are altered, and widespread changes in fetal brain transcriptomic and metabolomic profiles are observed, including subsets of microbiome-dependent metabolites. Finally, we show that dam treatment with a cocktail of ten diet- and microbiome-dependent metabolites results in differential effects on fetal development and postnatal behaviour. Our study highlights the impact of prenatal maternal protein undernutrition on offspring neurobehavioural trajectories and the role of the maternal microbiome.</p>

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Murine maternal microbiome modifies adverse effects of protein undernutrition on offspring neurobehaviour

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    2025年6月13日

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  • Elena J. Coley-O’Rourke,
  • Gregory R. Lum,
  • Geoffrey N. Pronovost,
  • Lewis W. Yu,
  • Ezgi Özcan,
  • Kristie B. Yu,
  • Janet McDermott,
  • Anna Chakhoyan,
  • Eliza Goldman,
  • Helen E. Vuong,
  • Jorge Paramo,
  • Sydney McCune,
  • Kristija Sejane,
  • Simone Renwick,
  • Lars Bode,
  • Alison Chu,
  • Kara L. Calkins,
  • Elaine Y. Hsiao

摘要

Protein undernutrition results in impaired growth and neurobehavioural development in children. However, the impact of timing, environmental factors and maternal versus neonatal influences are unclear. Here, using a mouse model of fetal growth restriction where maternal protein intake is limited during pregnancy, we show that adult offspring exhibit cognitive and anxiety-like behavioural abnormalities. Cross-fostering newborn mice to dams previously exposed to either low protein or standard diet reveals that behavioural impairments in adult offspring require diet-induced conditioning of both fetal development and maternal peripartum physiology. Maternal gut microbiome diversity is reduced, maternal immune, milk, and serum metabolomic profiles are altered, and widespread changes in fetal brain transcriptomic and metabolomic profiles are observed, including subsets of microbiome-dependent metabolites. Finally, we show that dam treatment with a cocktail of ten diet- and microbiome-dependent metabolites results in differential effects on fetal development and postnatal behaviour. Our study highlights the impact of prenatal maternal protein undernutrition on offspring neurobehavioural trajectories and the role of the maternal microbiome.