M. Rastelli (Dr) , C. Michel (Dr) , I. Grit , P. Parnet (Dr) , S. Bouret (Dr)
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We developed a mouse model of maternal dysbiosis during gestation and lactation by administering broad-spectrum antibiotics (ABX) to dams, targeting critical developmental phases.</div><div>Antibiotic treatment markedly reduced dams’ intestinal bacterial load from gestation to weaning. Maternal body weight, litter size and litter sex-ratio were unaffected. Then, we assessed the consequence of maternal dysbiosis on offspring metabolic regulation. Offspring of antibiotic-treated dams (off_ABX) displayed slower pre-weaning body weight gain and a catch-up growth after weaning, primarily due to increased longitudinal growth. At adulthood, male off_ABX displayed improved metabolic regulation, while female exhibited delayed puberty but no metabolic changes. Preliminary results suggest that off_ABX present neuroanatomical changes in the blood-hypothalamic barrier in the median eminence, which plays a crucial role in the regulation of metabolism at the brain-periphery interface.</div><div>Together, these results suggest that mGM influences the development of the neuroendocrine hypothalamus, with both short-and long-term consequences on metabolic regulation and reproductive function in offspring, associated with structural changes of the blood-hypothalamic barrier.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7917,"journal":{"name":"Annales d'endocrinologie","volume":"86 6","pages":"Article 101886"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Long-term impacts of maternal gut microbiome alterations on offspring metabolic programming and neuroendocrine plasticity\",\"authors\":\"M. Rastelli (Dr) , C. 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Long-term impacts of maternal gut microbiome alterations on offspring metabolic programming and neuroendocrine plasticity
The alarmingly high prevalence of metabolic disorders, particuarly in children, underscores the need to uncover the mechanisms involved in the development of these pathological conditions. Previous studies showed that alterations in the maternal nutritional environment can disrupt hypothalamic development, leading to enduring metabolic consequences in offspring. Recent evidence also linked the maternal gut microbiome (mGM) to offspring brain development.
However, it remains unknown whether the mGM affects the development of offspring hypothalamus, with short- and long-term consequences on metabolic regulation.
Here, we examined how impaired mGM impacts physiological and neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring. We developed a mouse model of maternal dysbiosis during gestation and lactation by administering broad-spectrum antibiotics (ABX) to dams, targeting critical developmental phases.
Antibiotic treatment markedly reduced dams’ intestinal bacterial load from gestation to weaning. Maternal body weight, litter size and litter sex-ratio were unaffected. Then, we assessed the consequence of maternal dysbiosis on offspring metabolic regulation. Offspring of antibiotic-treated dams (off_ABX) displayed slower pre-weaning body weight gain and a catch-up growth after weaning, primarily due to increased longitudinal growth. At adulthood, male off_ABX displayed improved metabolic regulation, while female exhibited delayed puberty but no metabolic changes. Preliminary results suggest that off_ABX present neuroanatomical changes in the blood-hypothalamic barrier in the median eminence, which plays a crucial role in the regulation of metabolism at the brain-periphery interface.
Together, these results suggest that mGM influences the development of the neuroendocrine hypothalamus, with both short-and long-term consequences on metabolic regulation and reproductive function in offspring, associated with structural changes of the blood-hypothalamic barrier.
期刊介绍:
The Annales d''Endocrinologie, mouthpiece of the French Society of Endocrinology (SFE), publishes reviews, articles and case reports coming from clinical, therapeutic and fundamental research in endocrinology and metabolic diseases. Every year, it carries a position paper by a work-group of French-language endocrinologists, on an endocrine pathology chosen by the Society''s Scientific Committee. The journal is also the organ of the Society''s annual Congress, publishing a summary of the symposia, presentations and posters. "Les Must de l''Endocrinologie" is a special booklet brought out for the Congress, with summary articles that are always very well received. And finally, we publish the high-level instructional courses delivered during the Henri-Pierre Klotz International Endocrinology Days. The Annales is a window on the world, keeping alert clinicians up to date on what is going on in diagnosis and treatment in all the areas of our specialty.