Glycogen stores are impaired in hypothalamic nuclei of rats malnourished during early life

Nutritional Neuroscience
S S LimaF Tenorio

Abstract

Perinatal nutrition has persistent influences on neural development and cognition. In humans and other animals, protein malnutrition during the perinatal period causes permanent changes, inducing to adulthood metabolic syndrome. Feeding is mainly modulated by neural and hormonal inputs to the hypothalamus. Hypothalamic glycogen stores are a source of glucose in high energetic demands, as during development of neural circuits. As some hypothalamic circuits are formed during lactation, we studied the effects of malnutrition, during the first 10 days of lactation, on glycogen stores in hypothalamic nuclei involved in the control of energy metabolism. Female pregnant rats were fed ad libitum with a normal protein diet (22% protein). After delivery, each dam was kept with 6 male pups. During the first 10 days of lactation, dams from the experimental group received a protein-free diet and the control group a normoprotein diet. By post-natal day 10 (P10), glycogen stores were very high in the arcuate nucleus and median eminence of control group. Glycogen stores decreased during development. In P20 control animals, glycogen stores were lower when compared to P10 control animals. Animals submitted to malnutrition presented a staining ev...Continue Reading

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