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Mouse maternal low protein diet exclusively during preimplantation development (Emb-LPD) is sufficient to programme altered growth and cardiovascular dysfunction in offspring. Here, we use an in vitro model comprising preimplantation culture in medium depleted in insulin and branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), two proposed embryo programming inductive factors from Emb-LPD studies, to examine the consequences for blastocyst organisation and, after embryo transfer (ET), postnatal disease origin. Two-cell embryos were cultured to blastocyst stage in defined KSOM medium supplemented with four combinations of insulin and BCAA concentrations. Control medium contained serum insulin and uterine luminal fluid amino acid concentrations (including BCAA) found in control mothers from the maternal diet model (N-insulin + N-bcaa). Experimental medium (three groups) contained 50% reduction in insulin and/or BCAA (L-insulin + N-bcaa, N-insulin + L-bcaa, and L-insulin + N-bcaa). Lineage-specific cell numbers of resultant blastocysts were not affected by treatment. Following ET, a combined depletion of insulin and BCAA during embryo culture induced a non sex-specific increase in birth weight and weight gain during early postnatal life. Furthermore, male offspring displayed relative hypertension and female offspring reduced heart/body weight, both characteristics of Emb-LPD offspring. Combined depletion of metabolites also resulted in a strong positive correlation between body weight and glucose metabolism that was absent in the control group. Our results support the notion that composition of preimplantation culture medium can programme development and associate with disease origin affecting postnatal growth and cardiovascular phenotypes and implicate two important nutritional mediators in the inductive mechanism. Our data also have implications for human assisted reproductive treatment (ART) practice.
Author(s): Velazquez MA, Sheth B, Smith SJ, Eckert JJ, Osmond C, Fleming TP
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease
Year: 2018
Volume: 1864
Issue: 2
Pages: 590-600
Print publication date: 01/02/2018
Online publication date: 28/11/2017
Acceptance date: 26/11/2017
Date deposited: 12/12/2017
ISSN (print): 0006-3002
ISSN (electronic): 1878-2434
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2017.11.020
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2017.11.020
PubMed id: 29196239
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