OJEMDOpen Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases2165-7424Scientific Research Publishing10.4236/ojemd.2017.711018OJEMD-81184ArticlesMedicine&Healthcare Methyl Donors Supplementation Attenuates the Adverse Effects of Maternal High Fructose Diet of Offspring Emotional and Cognitive Behaviors SidiMohamed Coulibaly1*AbdelhalemMesfioui1AliOuichou1PacômeKouadio N’Go2AminaEl Hasnaoui1AbdeljabbarNassiri1AboubakerEl Hessni1Laboratory of Genetics, Neuroendocrinology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences, University Ibn Tofail, Kenitra, MoroccoTraining and Research Unit of Biology Sciences, Peleforo Gon Coulibaly University, Korhogo, Ivory Coast* E-mail:sidicoulibaly2010@hotmail.fr(SMC);30112017071120321821, October 201727, November 2017 30, November 2017© Copyright 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. 2014This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Free Fatty acid is an end-product of hepatic metabolism of fructose. Most of past studies have demonstrated significant relationship between gestational high fat diet and metabolic and physiology outcomes in offspring. However, there is a scarce of data extended to the effects of high fructose diet-fed dams on juveniles’ progeny. Therefore, the present experiment was designed to examine the later effects of maternal high fructose diet intake during pregnancy and lactation on juvenile offspring rats emotional behaviors and memory abilities. We tested whether methyl donors supplemented to that high fructose diet could reverse the adverse effects. We found at two months of age, anxiety-like behavior and depression-like behavior were elevated in off springs of mother fed to high fructose diet and a sex difference effect with males were more affected than females. In addition, behavioral outcomes indicated that the high fructose diet also impaired spatial working and recognition memories in the Y-maze and object recognition test respectively. Blood glucose intolerance increased significantly in juvenile males rats of dams fed with high fructose diet when compared to females. However, a supplementation of the maternal diet with methyl donors attenuated all these changes. Our study suggested a controlled fructose diet supplemented to methyl donors during critical period of brain developing ( in utero and pre-weaning stage), otherwise that could induced irreversible detrimental effects on offspring behavior and cognitive health.

High Fructose Diet Methyl Donors Anxiety-Like Depressive-Like Memory Glucose Intolerance Rat Offspring1. Introduction

Fructose is a monosaccharide compound present in significant quantities in fruit, soft drink and others sweetened beverages, and commonly found in western countries people diets. For instance, fructose constitutes approximately 8% of total daily energy intake in the United States [1] , and the adolescents (12 - 18 years old) food consumption are particularly rich in fructose. However to date, the increasing of middle income in southern countries associated to nutritional transition based on high fat-diet or sugar-diet can be detrimental to health.

Maternal typical diet during pregnancy and lactation has a potential factor to influence long lasting on offspring phenotype, and most of studies have focused on the adverse health effects subsequent to high-fat diet during critical period of development. It has been so reported that excessive gestational weight gain due to high-fat diet, increases the risk of obesity in offspring, using both human and rodent models [2] [3] [4] [5] . Indeed, a past study had investigated the relation to dams fed with specific diet (high fat deprived of methyl donors) during pregnancy and lactation, and offspring physiology effects such as a global decrease of DNA methylation (essential factor in gene expression control) within the brains of males offspring [6] . Taken together, these are risk factors for neuroinflammatory diseases such asdiabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and brain diseases [7] [8] [9] [10] .

Otherwise, some studies advanced the hypothesis of the existence of a relationship between high fructose consumption and hepatic metabolic disorders leading to an elevated of free fatty acids, Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), insulin resistance and glucose intolerance [11] [12] [13] [14] . Although, it is also well- known that liver’s metabolism of fructose provides some precursors of free fatty acids and triacylglyceride such as acyl-coA and Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL) respectively [15] [16] , as well as some metabolites which entering the gluconeogenic pathway.

Given this background, and based on the tight metabolic relation between fructose and dyslipidemia, insulin resistance and neuroinflammation, current study emphasized on the extended effects of maternal consumption of high fructose-diet (HFD) during pregnancy and lactation on long-lasting emotional development and memory abilities of juveniles offspring even if they feed with standard diet during the post-weaning period, and whether a methyl donors supplementation during the maturing of brain could reverse adverse effects of HFD.

2. Materials and Methods2.1. Animals

Current experiment was performed using both sexes of the Wistar rat strain (100 ± 5 g−6 weeks old). The rats were obtained in a local breeding colony in the laboratory of Genetics, Biotechnology and Neuroendocrinology located at Ibn Tofail University (Kenitra, Morocco). Animals were born and housed at controlled room temperature (22˚C ± 2˚C), humidity (50% - 60%), under a 12 h light/12 dark cycle (light at 7:00 am). They had free access to tap drinking water and standard commercial diet (ALF SAHEL Food Company of Casablanca, Morocco). That diet consisted to 13% of Crudeprotein susbstances, 2% of Fat matters, 0.3% of Phosphorus, 1% of Calcium and 9% of some others Mineral matters, 15% of Cellulose, 500 IU of Vitamin A, 75 IU of Vitamin D and 1 IU of Vitamin E.

2.2. Experiment Groups and Treatment2.2.1. Nutritional Feature during Pre-Mating Period

At sexual maturity, animals were randomly divided into two groups: 1) the control’s group of fertile male and females had only free access to standard diet during 8 weeks, 2) in the same time the study’s group was fed daily with 50 g of standard diet and 23% HFD (w/v) as solution in 30 ml baby bottle [17] . Animals were weighed onset and weekly during 8 weeks.

2.2.2. Nutritional Programming of the Offspring

During pregnancy, females are assigned into 3 groups: 1) a control group received still a standard diet, 2) was fed in addition with a supplementation of 23% HFD (w/v) and 3) received by gavage simultaneously the fructose diet and nutrients rich in methyl donors (Cholin, 500 mg; Betain, 500 mg; Folic acid, 0.5 mg; Vitamin B12, 0.05 mg; L-methionin, 750 mg). Pregnant dams of each group were fed with the respective diet during pregnancy and lactation period. At weaning moment, their pups (n = 6 per group) were submitted to growth diet by a free access to food up adult stage. Otherwise, the component of methyl donors a forementioned was adjusted from some papers [18] [19] . After several assays, this composition appeared to be non-toxic when given by gavage to animals.

2.3. Behavioral Assessment

At adulthood stage (60 - 70 days of age), affective behavior and cognitive abilities were assessed using Elevated Plus-Maze (EPM), Forced Swimming Test (FST), Y-Maze Test and Object Recognition Test.

2.3.1. Elevated Plus-Maze

EPM is dedicated to the assessment of rat’s model of Anxiety-like behavior. The apparatus consisted to four open arms, 50 cm long and 10 cm wide. The arms are crossed in a central square platform (10 cm × 10 cm), with two enclosedarms (by 40 cm-high walls) and two open arms. The apparatus elevated to 50 cm above the floor.

The central platform was illuminated with a halogen lamp of 100 Was an aversive stimulus for the rats. Testing began by placing animals onto the platform facing to an open arm and 5 min were allowed them to explore freely the apparatus. We used alcohol solution for cleaning all olfactory cues between each evaluation [20] . The number of entries and time spent in the open arm was recorded by video camera for subsequent analysis.

2.3.2. Forced Swimming Test

Swimming test is sensitive to depression-like behavior level of the rat. The testing took place in a glass cylinder (50 cm, depth; 30 cm, diameter) with water (23˚C ± 2˚C) filled up 30 cm. The session began by introducing rats in the apparatus and were individually forced to swim for 5 min. The latency time up immobility and the duration of immobility were recorded. The immobility is defined when rat ceased any activities (i.e. struggling, swimming and jumping) and stay floating or make minimal movement with head kept above water. Moreover, the percentage of floating time increase with depression like response state [21] .

2.4. Spontaneous Alternation Behavior (Y-Maze Test)

The Y-maze test consisted to a black painted wood with three arms (40 cm long, 12-cm high, 3 cm at the bottom, and 10 cm wide at the top) having at their intersection a central triangle platform. This test assesses the immediate working memory ability which is correlated to spontaneous alteration behavior by a single session in the Y-maze [22] . The procedure was basically as described elsewhere [23] . Each rat, naïve to the maze was placed at the end of one arm and allowed to move freely through the maze during an 8-min session. The series of arm entries was recorded visually. An entry was considered to be completed when the hind paws of the mouse being in the arm. Alteration was defined as successive entries into the three different arms (A, B or C) on overlapping triplet sets (i.e. ACBABACBAB = 5 alternations). Percentage of alternation was calculated as following: % alternation = number of alternation/(total arm entries − 2) × 100.

2.4.1. Object Recognition Test (ORT)

The ORT is carried out in an open box to evaluate the preference for the novel object than the familiar one. The apparatus was homogeneously lighted (600 lux). The procedure was as described by Ennaceur and Delacour (1988) with some modifications.

The habituation phase on the first test day, rats explored the empty arena for 10 min.

The next day, they were allowed 5 min to explore the arena with two identical objects (same color, shape and texture) locate at the opposite corners: acquisition phase. On the following day, the retention phase consisted to test the rats with one familiar object previously encountered and the other novel one for 5min. After each test, the box and objects were cleaned with 70% ethanol. The exploration behavior is only considered as “directing the nose at a distance about 1 cm from the objects.” We have taken account two parameters. (1) % Recognition Index (RI) was calculated as time spent to explore the novel object divided by total time spent for both object, (2) Discrimination index (DI, the object preference) was times spent to explore novel object minus that of familiar one divided by the time for both object. The threshold of 50% and positive score expressed the recognition and the preference of novel object respectively [24] - [30] .

2.4.2. Intraperitoneal Glucose Tolerance Test

This test was conducted to study glucose tolerance behavior related to high fructose diet. After a fasting period of 12 h, blood sample was taken from tail vein at T0. Then, rats were intraperitoneally injected with glucose solution at 2 g/kg b. wand blood was taken at T30, T60, T90 and T120 min. The blood glucose amount was analyzed using glucose meter (ACCU-CHEK Active, Germany) as previously reported [31] .

2.5. Statistical Analysis

Results were expressed as mean ± SEM (Standard Error of Mean). We used one-way ANOVA to analyze behavioral performance between the different groups (Diet = independent factor) or two-way ANOVA (Diet × sex = independent factors) followed by post-hoc test when appropriate. Statistical significant was assumed at p-value < 0.05.

3. Results3.1. Behavioral Assessment3.1.1. Anxiety-Like Behavior in EPM

HFD during pregnancy and lactation has induced significant changes of anxiety behavior in the offspring at juvenile stage in EPM. As depicted Figure 1(a), in males, one-way ANOVA revealed that the number of open armentries was significantly reduced in the HFD and HFD + Methyl donors groups when compared to control diet group (p < 0.01). In females, only the group HFD presents significant reduction of open arm entries (p < 0.05), relative to others groups.

Significant anxiolytic effects were found in both HFD and HFD + Methyl donors groups through the decreased time spent in open arm in males (p < 0.001), and in females (p < 0.01), relative to control diet group Figure 1(b). In the other hand, two-way ANOVA revealed no significant sex × Diet effect for the number of open entries. However, the significant sex × Diet was found for time spent arm (p < 0.001).

3.1.2. Depression-Like Behavior in the FST

The juveniles rats of dams fed with HFD during pregnancy and lactation exhibite a depression-like behavior. One-way ANOVA showed a significant increased of immobility time (p < 0.001) in both sexes fed with HFD Figure 2. However, post-hoc analysis revealed the immobility time was different when compared the HFD and the HF-D+ methyl donors (p < 0.001), in both sexes male and female Figure 2. The sex × Diet effect was reported to time of immobility which measures depression-like behavior (p < 0.05).

3.1.3. Behavioral Performance in Y-Maze

As showed Figure 3, a significant reduction of % alternation in Y-maze associated to alteration of memory ability was found in offspring of dams fed to HFD (p < 0.001), and in group fed to HFD + Methyl donors (p < 0.05). Females group

of HFD showed a decreased % alternation (p < 0.001). Post-hoc analysis has revealed a significant difference to % alternation in both sexes male and female fed to HFD (p < 0.001), when compared to HFD + Methyl donors Figure 3. Two-way analysis showed significant sex × Diet effect for the % of alternation in Y-maze.

3.1.4. Object Recognition Test

We found that the % RI was below the threshold of object recognition (50%) in the rats HFD group Figure 4(a). One-way ANOVA showed no significant difference for this variable in males between different groups, but a significant reduction of % RI in females fed to HFD (p < 0.05), when compared to HFD + methyl donors and control diet groups Figure 4(a).

Indeed, the juveniles male rats of dams fed to HFD showed significant preference for familiar object through the DI (p < 0.05), when compared to control diet and HFD + Methyl donors groups Figure 4(b). The DI was also important in HFD + methyl donors group relative to HFD group (p < 0.001) Figure 4(b). In females, the familiar object preference was significant in control diet group (p < 0.001), and in HFD (p < 0.001) relative to HFD + Methyl donors group. However, the ID was reduced in HFD (p < 0.05) when compared to control diet group.

No significant sex × Diet observed for the IR as well as ID variables in the object recognition test.

3.1.5. Blood Glucose Tolerance Induced after HFD or HFD + Methyl Donors

At T0, before to 2 g/kg i.p of glucose, there is no significant difference in the blood glucose concentration between the groups Figure 5(a). Then, after injection, at T30 blood glucose concentration increased in all groups, and decreased up T120 excepted to the group fed to HFD (p < 0.001). In females, the blood

glucose level increased at T30, differently observed in males, the decreased blood glucose concentration in all group at T120 Figure 5(b).

4. Discussion

To our knowledge, current study examines for first time the risk of maternal nutritionnal programming with HFD during pregnancy and lactation on emotional and cognitive behaviors of the offspring (both sexes of 2 months old), and whether methyl donors supplementation diet may reverse to that. We observed in literature significant effects of HFD on rats cognition [32] , and the adverse effects of methyl donor-deficient diet during brain development on memory and anxiety in adulthood in mice [33] . In addition, previous studies demonstrated significant relationship between maternal fructose diet and metabolic disorders in their offspring [34] . However, absent or scarce studies have investigated the possibility behavioral effects on off spring of damsfed with HFD, even if they are feeding after weaning with a standard diet.

Here, behavioral tests revealed that anxiety and depression-like behavior were affected in rats of HFD group at 2 months old, when compared to theses ones of standard diet. We found that rats from HFD group presented a significant reduction of entries and time spent in open arm of EPM, and important increase of immobility time in FS-T. In fact, brain developmental period is sensitive to some exogenous factors like mother nutritional programing. It has been showed that high fructose consumption (30%) induces a decrease of the intestinal serotoninergic system by the blockade of serotonin reuptake transpoters [35] [36] . Thus, the anxiogenic effects observed in the off springs of dams fed to high-fat diet could be associated to hyper stimulation of 5-HT 1A receptor in the ventral part of hippocampus, well-known to regulate mood and anxiety [37] [38] . According to these authors, the GABA ergic system is also affected. Maternal nutrition based on HFD during pregnancy can produce obesity and related problems which have the potential to affect fetal brain development. In fact, neuroinflammation is strongly associated to obesity and animbalance between proinflammatory molecules and growth factors or neurotransmitters (e.g. Serotonin) early during brain could be a later risk for development of psychiatric disorders including anxiety and depression [39] . On the other hand, our results supported a sex difference effect of HFD-induced anxiety-related behavior; males are more affected than females. Similar observation has been made for depression-like behavior in FST. This is inconsistent with some others showing that males from pregnant and lactation dams fed to HFD-diet have displayed significant psychiatry disorders (anxiety and depression-like be-behavior) than females [40] .

In current experiment, the diet with fructose lacked nutrients rich in methyl donors. In fact, as reported in a past study, a deprivation of methyl donors diet in gestational rat dams induced long-lasting disabilities of exploratory activity in their pups [10] . We have found that the group having received HFD with a supplementation of methyl donors (Folic acid, Cholin, betain, L-methionin and Vitamin B12) had an improved behavior in EPM and FST. It has been clearly shown that maternal diet with supplementation in methyl donor changes gene expression in central nervous system and global DNA hypomethylation in prefrontal cortex [41] . Epigenetic regulation through DNA methylation or histone acetylation is essential factors in the control of psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety [42] [43] . Besides, methyl donors components are involved in some neurotransmitters synthesis namely dopamine, adrenaline, serotonin or acetylcholine known to be involved in regulation of depression state [44] , as reported reduction of depression state of juveniles of dams fed to HFD and a methyl donors dietary. This study demonstrated that offspring of HFD group presented deterioration of cognitive performance, with deficits of spatial working memory and recognition memory occurring in behavioral tests compared to both standard diet and HF + methyl donors diet groups. We also found the benefit effects of methyl donors’ supplementation on cognitive abilities. Our results are in agreement with previous study supporting that undernu-trition of maternal during pre-conception, gestation and lactation may induce adverse effects on brain development and cognitive performance using 8-arm radial maze [45] .

The relationship between HFD and the memory impairments is not significantly elucidated. However, a past research reported the effect of HFD-induced neuroinflammation [46] . Further studies evoked that the proinflammatory cytokineslike IL-1β, IL-6 or TNF-α alter the hippocampal neurogenesis and synapto genes is processes which are essential for memory formation [47] [48] [49] . For instance, four weeks for fructose or sucrose diet but not free glucose, neurogenes is in the hippocampus was reduced to approximately 40% [50] . That reinforces the hypothesis about HFD which impairs memory through the slowdown of neurogenesis.

We observed also that the female offspring rats of HFD group performed better in spatial and recognition memory tests than males. That could be due to the neuroprotective effect of estradiol which mediates modulation of long termpotentiation in the CA1 hippocampal neurons [51] .

Importantly, maternal nutrition status could influence the phenotype of offspring. In present study, HFD of dams with depletion to methyldonors component had pupssuffering to a memory dysfunction. A past study reported similar observation in which pups of dams with diet lacking methyl donors showed long-lasting disabilities of learning and memory [10] , and reduction of thickness of CA1 pyramidal layer in the hippocampus [52] . This observation shows the important role of methyl donors in the brain development and its derived functions, as reported in current experiment the benefit effects of supplementation diet with methyl donors for alleviating adverse health outcomes of HFD. In fact, the group of HFD with methyl donors’ supplementation displayed a best performance in cognitive test compared to those ones fed only with HFD. Methyl donors is a factor of regulation of epigenetic mechanisms well-known as DNA methylation and histone acetylation involved actively in control of gene expression supporting memory formation [53] [54] [55] [56] . Otherwise, a previous paper reported that methyl donors’ supplementation diet induces an increasing of NMDA receptor subunit, NR2B gene expression in hippocampal cells [33] . NMDA receptor though NR2B mediates memory acquisition, consolidation and recollection of information [57] . It has been reported also that deficiency diet of some methyl donors (Zinc, folic acid or choline) during gestational and lactation phase in mice causes memory defects in their offspring, neuronal apoptosis increasing and decreasing of cell proliferation [58] [59] [60] [61] .

As psychiatric disorders and cognitive function impaired were significantly found in rats from dams fed with 23% HFD during prenatal and pre-weaning period when compared to standard diet or HF+ methyl donors groups, our study reported evidence of high level of blood glucose. After, the fasting period, blood concentration of glucose was growing at T30 after tail glucose injection and remained constant in males, but decreases slowly in females. It was found in the offspring which Damfed to 20% HF-D during pre-conception, pregnancy and lactation, some signs of metabolic syndrome as high blood glucose level, triglyceride, LDL, VLDL, and significant body weight gain [34] . Several others studies have investigated the physiological and metabolic disorders induced by the HFD [15] [16] [62] [63] . Although, most of studies have focused on the effects of maternal high fat diet on offspring physiology [41] [63] [64] [65] , but the fructose and by-products are precursor of free fatty acid circulating [15] [16] . In addition, the increased of free fatty acid and other derivate substances of fructose increase liver gluconeogenic pathway [12] [16] . The metabolism subsequent effects of HFD consist to generate high level of free fatty acid which can causes insulin insensitivity leading to blood glucose intolerance [12] .

Taken together, these findings indicate that cognitive impairment in rats of HFD group is due to deficit of free circulating glucose which is strictly used as nutrients for brain.

We noted that the level of glucose intolerance revealed to be important in male rats relative to that of females. The sex difference effect of blood glucose concentration could be based on the key role of female steroid hormones in hepatic metabolism [66] [67] .

Our research outcomes showed that the HFD with methyl donors’ supplementation revealed a blood glucose level progression similar to that observed in control diet rats. In fact, it has been reported in a past study a tolerance of blood glucose in progeny whose maternal fed with a supplementation diet including folic acid [68] . The relationship between methyl donors’ action mechanisms and glucose tolerance is not still clear. However, a possible effect may be due to methylation of insulin gene involved in the blood glucose level regulation.

In the light of our results, maternal HFD early in prenatal and postnatal period is considered as great risk factor to apparition later, of neurobehavioral disorders or cognitive impairments in offspring. Although, most of experiments have emphasized on detrimental health effect of High fat diet, the outcomes of current study revealed to be complementarity to the previous ones, because of metabolic link between Fructose and fat diet. Additional studies are needed to investigate the epigenetic mechanisms and insulin resistance signaling associated to HFD in early life.

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Coulibaly, S.M., Mesfioui, A., Ouichou, A., N’Go, P.K., El Hasnaoui, A., Nassiri, A. and El Hessni, A. (2017) Methyl Donors Supplementation At- tenuates the Adverse Effects of Maternal High Fructose Diet of Offspring Emotional and Cognitive Behaviors. Open Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, 7, 203- 218. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojemd.2017.711018

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