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Project description:Environmental cues during gestation could exert transgenerational effects on behavior mainly through changes in epigenetic marks such as DNA methylation. However, the role of histone modifications in the inheritance of acquired phenotypes remains largely unknown in mammals. Here, we report that gestational choline supplementation (GCS) in maternal mice exerts anxiolytic effects on male offspring across 2 generations. Correspondingly, GCS-induced H3K9 hyperacetylation in the Nr3c1 promoter in male hippocampus leads to upregulation of Nr3c1 and its encoded protein, glucocorticoid receptor (GR), across 2 generations through the male germline. Furthermore, inhibition of CREB-binding protein (CBP) histone acetyltransferase (HAT) function restored GCS-induced epigenetic and behavioral alterations, suggesting that CBP function as a HAT to increase Nr3c1 expression through H3K9 hyperacetylation. Thus, GCS-induced GR upregulation through CBP-mediated H3K9 hyperacetylation in the Nr3c1 promoter is associated with anxiolytic behavior in male offspring, highlighting the role of histone modification in acquired phenotypes across mammalian generations.
2021-09-01 | GSE84316 | GEO
Project description:Environmental cues during gestation could exert transgenerational effects on behavior mainly through changes in epigenetic marks such as DNA methylation. However, the role of histone modifications in the inheritance of acquired phenotypes remains largely unknown in mammals. Here, we report that gestational choline supplementation (GCS) in maternal mice exerts anxiolytic effects on male offspring across 2 generations. Correspondingly, GCS-induced H3K9 hyperacetylation in the Nr3c1 promoter in male hippocampus leads to upregulation of Nr3c1 and its encoded protein, glucocorticoid receptor (GR), across 2 generations through the male germline. Furthermore, inhibition of CREB-binding protein (CBP) histone acetyltransferase (HAT) function restored GCS-induced epigenetic and behavioral alterations, suggesting that CBP function as a HAT to increase Nr3c1 expression through H3K9 hyperacetylation. Thus, GCS-induced GR upregulation through CBP-mediated H3K9 hyperacetylation in the Nr3c1 promoter is associated with anxiolytic behavior in male offspring, highlighting the role of histone modification in acquired phenotypes across mammalian generations.
2021-09-01 | GSE84315 | GEO
Project description:Environmental cues during gestation could exert transgenerational effects on behavior mainly through changes in epigenetic marks such as DNA methylation. However, the role of histone modifications in the inheritance of acquired phenotypes remains largely unknown in mammals. Here, we report that gestational choline supplementation (GCS) in maternal mice exerts anxiolytic effects on male offspring across 2 generations. Correspondingly, GCS-induced H3K9 hyperacetylation in the Nr3c1 promoter in male hippocampus leads to upregulation of Nr3c1 and its encoded protein, glucocorticoid receptor (GR), across 2 generations through the male germline. Furthermore, inhibition of CREB-binding protein (CBP) histone acetyltransferase (HAT) function restored GCS-induced epigenetic and behavioral alterations, suggesting that CBP function as a HAT to increase Nr3c1 expression through H3K9 hyperacetylation. Thus, GCS-induced GR upregulation through CBP-mediated H3K9 hyperacetylation in the Nr3c1 promoter is associated with anxiolytic behavior in male offspring, highlighting the role of histone modification in acquired phenotypes across mammalian generations.
2021-09-01 | GSE84314 | GEO
Project description:Gestational choline supplementation improves cross-generational mood by epigenetic upregulation of Nr3c1
| PRJNA328805 | ENA
Project description:Human studies of cross-generational epigenetic inheritance have to consider confounding by social patterning down the generations, often referred to as 'cultural inheritance'. This raises the question to what extent is 'cultural inheritance' itself epigenetically mediated rather than just learnt. Human studies of non-genetic inheritance have demonstrated that, beyond foetal life, experiences occurring in mid-childhood before puberty are the most likely to be associated with cross-generational responses in the next generation(s). It is proposed that cultural continuity is played out along the axis, or 'payoff', between responsiveness and stability. During the formative years of childhood a stable family and/or home permits small children to explore and thereby learn. To counter disruptions to this family home ideal, cultural institutions such as local schools, religious centres and market places emerged to provide ongoing stability, holding the received wisdom of the past in an accessible state. This cultural support allows the growing child to freely indulge their responsiveness. Some of these prepubertal experiences induce epigenetic responses that also transfer molecular signals to the gametes through which they contribute to the conception of future offspring. In parallel co-evolution with growing cultural support for increasing responsiveness, 'runaway' responsiveness is countered by the positive selection of genetic variants that dampen responsiveness. Testing these ideas within longitudinal multigenerational cohorts will need information on ancestors/parents' own communities and experiences (Exposome scans) linked to ongoing Phenome scans on grandchildren; coupled with epigenome analysis, metastable epialleles and DNA methylation age. Interactions with genetic variants affecting responsiveness should help inform the broad hypothesis.
| S-EPMC5920305 | biostudies-literature
Project description:OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary choline supplementation on hepatic lipid metabolism and gene expression in finishing pigs with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). METHODS:Using a 2×2 factorial design, eight normal birth weight (NBW) and eight IUGR weaned pigs were fed either a basal diet (NBW pigs fed a basal diet, NC; IUGR pigs fed a basal diet, IC) or a diet supplemented with two times more choline than the basal diet (NBW pigs fed a high-choline diet, NH; IUGR pigs fed a high-choline diet, IH) until 200 d of age. RESULTS:The results showed that the IUGR pigs had reduced body weight compared with the NBW pigs (p<0.05 from birth to d 120; p = 0.07 from d 120 to 200). Increased (p<0.05) free fatty acid (FFA) and triglyceride levels were observed in the IUGR pigs compared with the NBW pigs. Choline supplementation decreased (p<0.05) the levels of FFAs and triglycerides in the serum of the pigs. The activities of malate dehydrogenase and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase were both increased (p<0.05) in the livers of the IUGR pigs. Choline supplementation decreased (p<0.05) malate dehydrogenase activity in the liver of the pigs. Gene expression of fatty acid synthase (FAS) was higher (p<0.05) in the IC group than in the other groups, and choline supplementation decreased (p<0.05) FAS and acetyl-CoA carboxylase ? expression in the livers of the IUGR pigs. The expression of carnitine palmitoyl transferase 1A (CPT1A) was lower (p<0.05) in the IC group than in the other groups, and choline supplementation increased (p<0.05) the expression of CPT1A in the liver of the IUGR pigs and decreased (p<0.01) the expression of hormone-sensitive lipase in both types of pigs. The gene expression of phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PEMT) was higher (p<0.05) in the IC group than in the other groups, and choline supplementation significantly reduced (p<0.05) PEMT expression in the liver of the IUGR pigs. CONCLUSION:In conclusion, the lipid metabolism was abnormal in IUGR pigs, but the IUGR pigs consuming twice the normal level of choline had improved circulating lipid parameters, which could be related to the decreased activity of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-generating enzymes or the altered expressions of lipid metabolism-related genes.
| S-EPMC5930279 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Maternal choline supplementation (MCS) improves cognition in Alzheimer's disease (AD) models. However, effects of MCS on neuronal hyperexcitability in AD are unknown. We investigated effects of MCS in a well-established mouse model of AD with hyperexcitability, the Tg2576 mouse. The most common type of hyperexcitability in Tg2576 mice, and many other mouse models and AD patients, are generalized EEG spikes (interictal spikes; IIS). Hyperexcitability is also reflected by elevated expression of the transcription factor ΔFosB in the principal cells of the dentate gyrus (DG), granule cells (GCs). We also studied the hilus of the DG because hilar neurons regulate GC excitability. We found reduced expression of the neuronal marker NeuN within hilar neurons in Tg2576 mice, which other studies have shown is a sign of oxidative stress or other pathology. Tg2576 breeding pairs received a diet with a relatively low, intermediate or high concentration of choline. After weaning, all mice received the intermediate diet. In offspring of mice fed the high choline diet, IIS frequency declined, GC ΔFosB expression was reduced, and NeuN expression restored. Spatial memory improved. In contrast, offspring exposed to the relatively low choline diet had several adverse effects, such as increased mortality. The results provide new evidence that a diet high in choline in early life can improve outcomes in a mouse model of AD, and relatively low choline can have negative consequences. This is the first study showing that dietary choline can regulate hyperexcitability, hilar neurons, and spatial memory in an animal model of AD.
| S-EPMC10197642 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Wilson disease (WD), a genetic disorder affecting copper transport, is characterized by hepatic and neurological manifestations with variable and often unpredictable presentation. Global DNA methylation in liver was previously modified by dietary choline in tx-j mice, a spontaneous mutant model of WD. We therefore hypothesized that the WD phenotype and hepatic gene expression of tx-j offspring could be modified by maternal methyl supplementation during pregnancy. In an initial experiment, female tx-j mice or wild type mice were fed control or choline-supplemented diets 2 weeks prior to mating through embryonic day 17. Transcriptomic analysis (RNA-seq) on embryonic livers revealed tx-j-specific differences in genes related to oxidative phosphorylation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and the neurological disorders Huntington's disease and Alzheimer disease. Maternal choline supplementation restored the transcript levels of a subset of genes to wild type levels. In a separate experiment, a group of tx-j offspring continued to receive choline-supplemented or control diets, with or without the copper chelator penicillamine (PCA) for 12 weeks until 24 weeks of age. Combined choline supplementation and PCA treatment of 24-week-old tx-j mice was associated with increased liver transcript levels of methionine metabolism and oxidative phosphorylation-related genes. Sex differences in gene expression within each treatment group were also observed. These results demonstrate that the transcriptional changes in oxidative phosphorylation and methionine metabolism genes in WD that originate during fetal life are, in part, prevented by prenatal maternal choline supplementation, a finding with potential relevance to preventive treatments of WD.
| S-EPMC5221658 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Prenatal alcohol exposure causes neurodevelopmental disability and is associated with a functional iron deficiency in the fetus and neonate, even when the mother consumes an apparently iron-adequate diet. Here, we test whether gestational administration of the clinically relevant iron supplement Fer-In-Sol mitigates alcohol's adverse impacts upon the fetus. Pregnant Long-Evans rats consumed an iron-adequate diet and received 5 g/kg alcohol by gavage for 7 days in late pregnancy. Concurrently, some mothers received 6 mg/kg oral iron. We measured maternal and fetal weights, hematology, tissue iron content, and oxidative damage on gestational day 20.5. Alcohol caused fetal anemia, decreased fetal body and brain weight, increased hepatic iron content, and modestly elevated hepatic malondialdehyde (p's < 0.05). Supplemental iron normalized this brain weight reduction in alcohol-exposed males (p = 0.154) but not female littermates (p = 0.031). Iron also reversed the alcohol-induced fetal anemia and normalized both red blood cell numbers and hematocrit (p's < 0.05). Iron had minimal adverse effects on the mother or fetus. These data show that gestational iron supplementation improves select fetal outcomes in prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) including brain weight and hematology, suggesting that this may be a clinically feasible approach to improve prenatal iron status and fetal outcomes in alcohol-exposed pregnancies.
| S-EPMC9025692 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Activation of nicotinic receptors with nicotine has been shown to reduce post-surgical pain in clinical and preclinical studies. Choline is a selective agonist at ?7-type nicotinic receptors that does not have addictive or sympathetic activating properties. It is anti-nociceptive in animal studies. We conducted a double-blind randomized trial of oral choline supplementation with lecithin to aid in the treatment of pain after gynaecological surgery.Sixty women having open gynaecological surgery were randomly assigned to receive 20 g of lecithin before surgery or placebo. Plasma choline concentration and tumour necrosis factor (TNF) were measured. Pain report was the primary outcome measure.We achieved a small but statistically significant increase in choline after surgery with oral supplementation. Plasma TNF was not decreased and pain report was not different between groups at rest or with movement. There were no adverse effects of treatment.Oral supplementation with lecithin during the perioperative period resulted in very slow absorption and thus only a small increase in plasma choline was achieved. This concentration was inadequate to reduce TNF as has been shown in other studies. The absence of an anti-inflammatory effect was likely related to our failure to demonstrate efficacy in pain reduction.
| S-EPMC3841409 | biostudies-literature