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Maternal multi-generational high fat diet (HFD) exposure increases the offspring HCC incidence

ABSTRACT: Purpose: To investiagte why maternal obesity induces the susceptibility of offspring to diethylnitrosamine (DEN)-induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) over generations upon over nutrition.The goals of this study are to find over-generationally altered genes and miRNAs which may contribute the accumulative progeny susceptibility to HCC under over nutrition. Methods: C57BL/6 female mice (F0 generation) were fed with either normal chow (NC) or HFD (60% kcal fat) from 1-month to 3-month old, and mated with NC-fed male mice to produce F1 generation. The F2 generation was similarly created. Male offspring of the F0, F1 and F2 generations were intraperitoneally injected with DEN at 2-weeks-old, and kept inmaintained on HFD and named as H1D, H2D and H3D groups, respectively. Male offspring of the F0 generation injected with PBS (Nor group) or DEN (NCD group) at the same age and kept inmaintained on NC. All groups were sacrificed at 40-weeks-old. Liver mRNA profiles and miRNA profiles from the different offspring groups were generated by LncRNA sequencing and small RNA sequencing. Results: We identified many over-generationally changed genes and miRNAs in the offspring by RNA-sequencing. Conclusions: The study revealed an important role of miRNA and targeting genes in regulating the incidence of HCC in the offspring of maternal-lineage under multi-generational HFD exposure, which has a profound effect on exploring the link between maternal obesity and the development of diseases in offspring.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE117539 | GEO | 2021/07/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Maternal obesity can program metabolic syndrome in offspring but the mechanisms are not well characterized. Moreover, the consequences of maternal overnutrition in the absence of frank obesity remain poorly understood. This study aimed to determine the effects of maternal consumption of a high fat-sucrose diet on the skeletal muscle metabolic and transcriptional profiles of adult offspring. Female Sprague Dawley rats were fed either a diet rich in saturated fat and sucrose (HFD, 23.5% fat, 20% sucrose wt/wt) or a standard chow diet (NFD, 7% fat, 10% sucrose w/w) for the 3 weeks prior to mating and throughout pregnancy and lactation. Although maternal weights were not different between groups at conception or weaning, HFD dams were ~22% heavier than chow fed dams from mid-pregnancy until 4 days post-partum. Adult male offspring of HFD dams were not heavier than controls but demonstrated features of insulin resistance including elevated plasma insulin concentration (+40%, P<0.05). Next Generation mRNA Sequencing was used to identify differentially expressed genes in the soleus muscle of offspring, and Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) to detect coordinated changes that are characteristic of a biological function. GSEA identified 15 pathways enriched for up-regulated genes, including cytokine signaling (P<0.005), starch and sucrose metabolism (P<0.017), and inflammatory response (P<0.024). A further 8 pathways were significantly enriched for down-regulated genes including oxidative phosphorylation (P<0.004) and electron transport (P<0.022). Western blots confirmed a ~60% reduction in the phosphorylation of the insulin signaling protein Akt (P<0.05) and ~70% reduction in mitochondrial complexes II (P<0.05) and V expression (P<0.05). On a normal diet, offspring of HFD dams developed an insulin resistant phenotype, with transcriptional evidence of muscle cytokine activation, inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction. These data indicate that maternal overnutrition, even in the absence of pre-pregnancy obesity can promote metabolic dysregulation and predispose offspring to type 2 diabetes. Messenger RNA profile of skeletal muscle of male offspring from female Sprague Dawley rats fed either a diet rich in saturated fat and sucrose (HFD, 23.5% fat, 20% sucrose wt/wt) or a standard chow diet (NFD, 7% fat, 10% sucrose w/w) for the 3 weeks prior to mating and throughout pregnancy and lactation. There were 5 HFD samples compared to 6 NFD control samples.

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Maternal multi-generational high fat diet (HFD) exposure increases the offspring HCC incidence

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