Repercussions of maternal exposure to high-fat diet on offspring feeding behavior and body composition: a systematic review.

Maternal nutrition is an environmental determinant for offspring growth and development, especially in critical periods. Nutritional imbalances during these phases can promote dysregulations in food intake and feeding preference in offspring, affecting body composition. The aim of this review is to summarize and discuss the effects of maternal high-fat diet (HFD) on offspring feeding behavior and body composition.

High-caloric or isocaloric maternal high-fat diets differently affect young-adult offspring behavior in anxiety-related tests and offspring sensitivity to acute fluoxetine.

Objective: to evaluate the influence of two maternal high-fat diets with different caloric contents on anxiety-like behavior in young-adult offspring and their sensitivity to acute fluoxetine.

Methods: females Wistar rats were used and divided according to diet received during gestation and lactation: Control (CTR), high-fat/isocaloric (HI) and high-fat/high-caloric (HH). Offspring were subsequently divided into three subgroups according to acute administration of vehicle or fluoxetine (1 or 10 mg/kg).

Differential effects of maternal high-fat/high-caloric or isocaloric diet on offspring's skeletal muscle phenotype.

Unlabelled: Aim This study sought to investigate the effects of two different maternal high-fat diets, during gestation and lactation, on the morphology of the skeletal muscle of the adult offspring rats.

Methods: Female Wistar rats were fed Control (C) or High-fat/high-caloric (HH) or High-fat/isocaloric (HI) diet during gestation and lactation. The somatic growth of the offspring was measured throughout lactation.

A maternal high-fat/high-caloric diet delays reflex ontogeny during lactation but enhances locomotor performance during late adolescence in rats.

The main goal of the present study was to investigate the effects of two maternal high-fat diets with different energy densities on the somatic growth, reflex ontogeny, and locomotor activity of offspring. Twenty-nine female Wistar rats (220-250 g) were mated and grouped into three different dietary conditions: control ( = 11, AIN-93G diet, 3.6 kcal/g), high-fat/high-caloric (HH,  = 9, 51% of the calories from fat, 4.