PMID- 30174229 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190910 LR - 20230928 IS - 2212-8778 (Electronic) IS - 2212-8778 (Linking) VI - 17 DP - 2018 Nov TI - Sex dependent impact of gestational stress on predisposition to eating disorders and metabolic disease. PG - 1-16 LID - S2212-8778(18)30624-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.molmet.2018.08.005 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVE: Vulnerability to eating disorders (EDs) is broadly assumed to be associated with early life stress. However, a careful examination of the literature shows that susceptibility to EDs may depend on the type, severity and timing of the stressor and the sex of the individual. We aimed at exploring the link between chronic prenatal stress and predisposition to EDs and metabolic disease. METHODS: We used a chronic variable stress protocol during gestation to explore the metabolic response of male and female offspring to food restriction (FR), activity-based anorexia (ABA), binge eating (BE) and exposure to high fat (HF) diet. RESULTS: Contrary to controls, prenatally stressed (PNS) female offspring showed resistance to ABA and BE and displayed a lower metabolic rate leading to hyperadiposity and obesity on HF diet. Male PNS offspring showed healthy responses to FR and ABA, increased propensity to binge and improved coping with HF compared to controls. We found that long-lasting abnormal responses to metabolic challenge are linked to fetal programming and adult hypothalamic dysregulation in PNS females, resulting from sexually dimorphic adaptations in placental methylation and gene expression. CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that maternal stress may have variable and even opposing effects on ED risk, depending on the ED and the sex of the offspring. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.. All rights reserved. FAU - Schroeder, Mariana AU - Schroeder M AD - Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel; Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, 80804, Germany. Electronic address: marianaschroeder.mail@gmail.com. FAU - Jakovcevski, Mira AU - Jakovcevski M AD - Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, 80804, Germany. FAU - Polacheck, Tamar AU - Polacheck T AD - Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel. FAU - Drori, Yonat AU - Drori Y AD - Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel. FAU - Ben-Dor, Shifra AU - Ben-Dor S AD - Bioinformatics and Biological Computing Unit, Biological Services, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel. FAU - Roh, Simone AU - Roh S AD - Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, 80804, Germany. FAU - Chen, Alon AU - Chen A AD - Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel; Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, 80804, Germany. Electronic address: alon_chen@psych.mpg.de. LA - eng GR - T32 EB016652/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20180820 PL - Germany TA - Mol Metab JT - Molecular metabolism JID - 101605730 RN - 0 (Insulin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Binge-Eating Disorder MH - Body Weight/physiology MH - Diet, High-Fat MH - Feeding and Eating Disorders/*physiopathology MH - Female MH - Hypothalamus/metabolism MH - Insulin MH - Male MH - Metabolic Diseases/*physiopathology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred ICR MH - Obesity/metabolism MH - Pregnancy MH - Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects/physiopathology MH - Sex Factors MH - Stress, Physiological/physiology PMC - PMC6197785 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Activity based anorexia OT - Binge eating OT - Early life programming OT - Metabolic syndrome OT - Obesity OT - Stress EDAT- 2018/09/04 06:00 MHDA- 2019/09/11 06:00 PMCR- 2018/08/20 CRDT- 2018/09/04 06:00 PHST- 2018/06/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/08/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/08/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/09/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/09/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/09/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/08/20 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2212-8778(18)30624-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.molmet.2018.08.005 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Metab. 2018 Nov;17:1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2018.08.005. Epub 2018 Aug 20.