PMID- 23999121 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140619 LR - 20211021 IS - 1873-7544 (Electronic) IS - 0306-4522 (Print) IS - 0306-4522 (Linking) VI - 253 DP - 2013 Dec 3 TI - Inter-relationships among diet, obesity and hippocampal-dependent cognitive function. PG - 110-22 LID - S0306-4522(13)00732-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.08.044 [doi] AB - Intake of a Western diet (WD), which is high in saturated fat and sugar, is associated with deficits in hippocampal-dependent learning and memory processes as well as with markers of hippocampal pathology. In the present study, rats were trained to asymptote on hippocampal-dependent serial feature negative (FN) and hippocampal-independent simple discrimination problems. Performance was then assessed following 7 days on ad libitum chow and after 10, 24, 40, 60, and 90 days of maintenance on WD, on ketogenic (KETO) diet, which is high in saturated fat and low in sugar and other carbohydrates, or continued maintenance on chow (CHOW). Confirming and extending previous findings, diet-induced obese (DIO) rats fed WD showed impaired FN performance, increased blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, and increased fasting blood glucose levels compared to CHOW controls and to diet-resistant (DR) rats that did not become obese when maintained on WD. For rats fed the KETO diet, FN performance and BBB integrity were more closely associated with level of circulating ketone bodies than with obesity phenotype (DR or DIO), with higher levels of ketones appearing to provide a protective effect. The evidence also indicated that FN deficits preceded and predicted increased body weight and adiposity. This research (a) further substantiates previous findings of WD-induced deficits in hippocampal-dependent FN discriminations, (b) suggests that ketones may be protective against diet-induced cognitive impairment, and (c) provides evidence that diet-induced cognitive impairment precedes weight gain and obesity. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Davidson, T L AU - Davidson TL AD - Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, American University, Washington, DC, United States. Electronic address: terryd@american.edu. FAU - Hargrave, S L AU - Hargrave SL FAU - Swithers, S E AU - Swithers SE FAU - Sample, C H AU - Sample CH FAU - Fu, X AU - Fu X FAU - Kinzig, K P AU - Kinzig KP FAU - Zheng, W AU - Zheng W LA - eng GR - ES017055/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States GR - ES008146/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 ES008146/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HD028792/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HD29792/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 ES017055/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 HD052112/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States GR - R56 ES008146/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20130830 PL - United States TA - Neuroscience JT - Neuroscience JID - 7605074 RN - 0 (Blood Glucose) RN - 0 (Insulin) RN - 0 (Triglycerides) RN - 89750-14-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide 1) RN - TZP1275679 (3-Hydroxybutyric Acid) SB - IM MH - 3-Hydroxybutyric Acid/blood MH - Adiposity/physiology MH - Animals MH - Blood Glucose/metabolism MH - Body Weight/physiology MH - Cognition/*physiology MH - Conditioning, Classical/physiology MH - *Diet, Ketogenic/methods MH - Discrimination Learning MH - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay MH - Fasting/blood MH - Glucagon-Like Peptide 1/metabolism MH - Hippocampus/*physiology MH - Insulin/blood MH - Male MH - Obesity/chemically induced/*pathology MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Time Factors MH - Triglycerides/blood PMC - PMC3934926 MID - NIHMS521702 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ANOVA OT - BBB OT - BHB OT - DIO OT - DR OT - EDTA OT - FN OT - GLP-1 OT - HE OT - KETO OT - PFC OT - Pavlovian OT - WD OT - Western diet OT - analysis of variance OT - beta-hydroxybutyrate OT - blood-brain barrier OT - dementia OT - diet resistant OT - diet-induced obese OT - energy regulation OT - ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid OT - feature negative OT - glucagon-like peptide-1 OT - high energy OT - ketogenic OT - ketogenic diet OT - memory OT - prefrontal cortex OT - saturated fat EDAT- 2013/09/04 06:00 MHDA- 2014/06/20 06:00 PMCR- 2014/12/03 CRDT- 2013/09/04 06:00 PHST- 2013/07/16 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/08/21 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/08/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/09/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/09/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/06/20 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/12/03 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0306-4522(13)00732-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.08.044 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neuroscience. 2013 Dec 3;253:110-22. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.08.044. Epub 2013 Aug 30.