Time-restricted feeding ameliorates maternal high-fat diet-induced fetal lung injury

Experimental and Molecular Pathology
Aditya UpadhyayMadan M Godbole

Abstract

Maternal inflammation ensuing from high-fat diet (HFD) intake during pregnancy is related to spontaneous preterm birth and respiratory impairment among premature infants. Recently, a circadian aligned dietary intervention referred to as Time-restricted feeding (TRF) has been reported to have beneficial metabolic effects. This study aimed to assess the effects of maternal TRF on fetal lung injury caused by maternal HFD intake. Female Wistar rats were kept on following three dietary regimens; Ad libitum normal chow diet (NCD-AL), Ad libitum HFD (HFD-AL) and Time-restricted fed HFD (HFD-TRF) from 5 months before mating and continued through pregnancy. Fetal lung samples were collected on the embryonic day 18.5, and apoptotic and inflammatory markers were assessed using TUNEL assay, western blotting, and qRT-PCR. Our results showed that TRF considerably prevented maternal HFD-induced apoptosis in fetal lung tissue that corroborated with a reduction in caspase activation and increased levels of anti-apoptotic BCL2 family proteins together with a lower level of ER-stress and autophagy markers including ATF6, CHOP and LC3-II. Besides, fetal lungs from HFD-TRF dams exhibited reduced expression of inflammatory genes that correlated with...Continue Reading

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