PMID- 37355440 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230925 LR - 20231002 IS - 1532-3102 (Electronic) IS - 0143-4004 (Linking) VI - 141 DP - 2023 Sep 26 TI - Paternal programming of fetoplacental and offspring metabolic disorders. PG - 71-77 LID - S0143-4004(23)00144-3 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.placenta.2023.06.009 [doi] AB - The alarming increase in the prevalence of metabolic pathologies is of worldwide concern and has been linked not only to genetic factors but also to a large number of non-genetic factors. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the study of the programming of metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity, by paternal exposure, a paradigm termed "Paternal Origins of Health and Disease" (POHaD). This term derives from the better known "Developmental Origins of Health and Disease" (DOHaD), which focuses on the involvement of the maternal intrauterine environment and complications during pregnancy associated with the health and disease of the offspring. Studies on paternal programming have documented environmentally induced epigenetic modifications in the male germline and in seminal plasma, which lead to intergenerational and transgenerational phenotypes, evident already during fetoplacental development. Studies with animal models at both ends of the nutritional spectrum (undernutrition or overnutrition) have been performed to understand the possible mechanisms and signaling pathways leading to the programming of metabolic disorders by exploring epigenetic changes throughout the life of the offspring. The aim of this review was to address the evidence of the programming of fetoplacental developmental alterations and metabolic pathologies in the offspring of males with metabolic disorders and unhealthy exposures, highlighting the mechanisms involved in such programming and looking for paternal interventions to reduce negative health outcomes in the offspring. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Capobianco, Evangelina AU - Capobianco E AD - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Medicina, Buenos Aires, Argentina; CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Laboratory of Reproduction and Metabolism, CEFYBO, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Electronic address: evacapobianco@yahoo.com.ar. FAU - Pirrone, Irune AU - Pirrone I AD - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Medicina, Buenos Aires, Argentina; CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Laboratory of Reproduction and Metabolism, CEFYBO, Buenos Aires, Argentina. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20230618 PL - Netherlands TA - Placenta JT - Placenta JID - 8006349 SB - IM MH - Pregnancy MH - Male MH - Humans MH - Animals MH - Female MH - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/etiology MH - *Metabolic Diseases/genetics MH - Epigenesis, Genetic MH - Obesity/complications MH - Fathers OTO - NOTNLM OT - Epigenetics OT - Fetal programming OT - Offspring OT - POHaD OT - Placenta COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/06/25 01:08 MHDA- 2023/09/25 06:43 CRDT- 2023/06/24 21:56 PHST- 2023/03/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/06/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/06/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/09/25 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/06/25 01:08 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/06/24 21:56 [entrez] AID - S0143-4004(23)00144-3 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.placenta.2023.06.009 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Placenta. 2023 Sep 26;141:71-77. doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2023.06.009. Epub 2023 Jun 18.