Maternal Methyl-Enriched Diet Increases Dopaminergic Tone of the Mesolimbic Brain System in Adult Offspring of WAG/Rij Rats

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Journal Dokl Biol Sci

Specialty Biology

Date 2022 Oct 27

PMID 36301422

Authors

K Yu Sarkisova

E A Fedosova

A B Shatskova

V B Narkevich

V S Kudrin

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to find out whether maternal methyl-enriched diet affects the content of monoamines and their metabolites in brain structures of adult WAG/Rij offspring. It has been shown for the first time that maternal methyl-enriched diet (choline, betaine, folic acid, vitamin B12, L-methionine, zink) during the perinatal period increases dopaminergic tone of the mesolimbic brain system in adult offspring of WAG/Rij rats, which is accompanied by the suppression of the symptoms of genetic absence epilepsy and comorbid depression. Results suggest that maternal methyl-enriched diet during the perinatal period may be served as a new therapeutic strategy to prevent the development of a hypofunction of the mesolimbic dopaminergic brain system and associated genetic absence epilepsy and comorbid depression in offspring.

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