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Nicotine exposure during breastfeeding reduces sympathetic activity in brown adipose tissue and increases in white adipose tissue in adult rats: Sex-related differences. 2020

T C Peixoto, and E G Moura, and P N Soares, and I M Bertasso, and C B Pietrobon, and F A H Caramez, and R A Miranda, and E Oliveira, and A C Manhães, and P C Lisboa
Laboratório de Fisiologia Endócrina, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nicotine transfer via breast milk induces obesity in the adult offspring. We hypothesize that sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity, brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis and white adipose tissue (WAT) lipogenesis/adipogenesis are altered in adult rats that were exposed to nicotine exclusively during the breastfeeding period. Lactating Wistar rats were separated into two groups: nicotine (NIC), dams implanted with osmotic minipumps containing 6 mg/kg of nicotine at postnatal day (PN) 2; control, dams were implanted with saline-containing minipumps. Euthanasia occurred at PN120 or PN180. NIC offspring had lower BAT SNS activity and higher BAT lipid content. NIC males showed lower UCP1, β3-AR and CPT1a, while NIC females showed lower UCP1, TRα1, CPT1a, suggesting lower thermogenesis. NIC males showed higher WAT SNS activity, WAT β3-AR, adrenal catecholamine, FAS, PPARγ and adipocytes area, while NIC females showed higher ACC, FAS, CEBPβ and PPARγ. These findings indicate increased lipogenesis/adipogenesis in both sexes, with a possible compensatory sympathetic activated-lipolysis in males. NIC males had higher hypothalamic pAMPK/AMPK, explaining the lower BAT sympathetic activity. Neonatal nicotine exposure reduces BAT SNS activity and thermogenesis, and, only in males, increases WAT adipogenesis/lipogenesis, despite higher WAT SNS activity. These alterations can be associated with obesogenesis in this programming model.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007774 Lactation The processes of milk secretion by the maternal MAMMARY GLANDS after PARTURITION. The proliferation of the mammary glandular tissue, milk synthesis, and milk expulsion or let down are regulated by the interactions of several hormones including ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; and OXYTOCIN. Lactation, Prolonged,Milk Secretion,Lactations, Prolonged,Milk Secretions,Prolonged Lactation,Prolonged Lactations
D008297 Male Males
D009538 Nicotine Nicotine is highly toxic alkaloid. It is the prototypical agonist at nicotinic cholinergic receptors where it dramatically stimulates neurons and ultimately blocks synaptic transmission. Nicotine is also important medically because of its presence in tobacco smoke. Nicotine Bitartrate,Nicotine Tartrate
D002001 Adipose Tissue, Brown A thermogenic form of adipose tissue composed of BROWN ADIPOCYTES. It is found in newborns of many species including humans, and in hibernating mammals. Brown fat is richly vascularized, innervated, and densely packed with MITOCHONDRIA which can generate heat directly from the stored lipids. Brown Fat,Hibernating Gland,Brown Adipose Tissue,Fat, Brown,Tissue, Brown Adipose
D005260 Female Females
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D012737 Sex Factors Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances. Factor, Sex,Factors, Sex,Sex Factor
D017208 Rats, Wistar A strain of albino rat developed at the Wistar Institute that has spread widely at other institutions. This has markedly diluted the original strain. Wistar Rat,Rat, Wistar,Wistar Rats
D050155 Lipogenesis De novo fat synthesis in the body. This includes the synthetic processes of FATTY ACIDS and subsequent TRIGLYCERIDES in the LIVER and the ADIPOSE TISSUE. Lipogenesis is regulated by numerous factors, including nutritional, hormonal, and genetic elements. Lipogeneses
D051381 Rats The common name for the genus Rattus. Rattus,Rats, Laboratory,Rats, Norway,Rattus norvegicus,Laboratory Rat,Laboratory Rats,Norway Rat,Norway Rats,Rat,Rat, Laboratory,Rat, Norway,norvegicus, Rattus

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