Maternal obesity reprograms offspring's executive brain centers in a sex-specific manner? An Editorial for "Perinatal high fat diet and early life methyl donor supplementation alter one carbon metabolism and DNA methylation in the brain" on page 362

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This editorial highlights an article by McKee and colleagues in the current issue of Journal of Neurochemistry, in which the authors report epigenetic changes linked to one-carbon metabolism in prefrontal cortex (PFC) of murine offspring from dams fed high-fat diet to mimic maternal obesity. The group found that high-fat diet feeding in utero increases weight gain in offspring and dynamically alters DNA methylation in the PFC of male but not female brains. These epigenetic marks were associated with a shift in brain one-carbon metabolism (folate and methionine) intermediates and were normalized by early-life methyl-donor supplementation in a sex-specific manner.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Neurochemistry
Volume145
Issue number5
Pages (from-to)358-361
ISSN0022-3042
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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