Prenatal folic acid and vitamin B₁₂ imbalance alter neuronal morphology and synaptic density in the mouse neocortex.

ABSTRACT: Previous reports have provided evidence that insufficient or excessive maternal folic acid (FA) intake during pregnancy can alter neurodevelopment of the offspring by modulating prenatal neurogenesis. Furthermore, our earlier work in a mouse model confirmed long-term structural changes at the cellular level of either deficient or excessive FA supply by comparably reducing dendritic arborization of cortical projection neurons. Here, we report that excessive amounts of FA decrease arborization of deep layer projection neurons, but not upper layer neurons and that reduced complexity of deep layer neurons is not observed when folic acid is replaced by folinic acid, a stable reduced form of folate. In addition, deficiency of B₁₂, a vitamin that critically regulates folate metabolism,

SUBMITTER: Tat L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10632462 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature