PMID- 37767490 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20231003 IS - 2405-8440 (Print) IS - 2405-8440 (Electronic) IS - 2405-8440 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 10 DP - 2023 Oct TI - Maternal stress-induced changes in adolescent and adult offspring: Neurobehavioural improvement and telomere maintenance. PG - e20385 LID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20385 [doi] LID - e20385 AB - Maternal stress (MS) during gestation is known to increase the risk for the development of behavioural and physiological disorders and advances cellular aging. In this study, we investigated whether the supplementation of standardized Bacopa monnieri extract (CDRI-08/BME) or l-Carnosine (L-C) to the mother exposed to social stress during gestation modify the effect on their offspring's neurobehaviour, antioxidant defence gene expression, telomere length, and telomere biology. To test this, timed pregnant rats were subjected to social stress during the gestational day (GD) 16-18. A subset of stressed pregnant rats received either BME [80 mg/kg in 0.5% gum acacia (per-orally; p.o)] or L-C [1 mg/kg (p.o)] every day from GD-10 to until their pup's attained postnatal day (PND)-23. We observed that MS induced anxiety-like behaviour, altered inter-limb coordination, antioxidant defence genes [Superoxide dismutase (SOD1,2), Catalase (CAT), Glutathione peroxidase-3 (GPX3)], telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), shelterin complex subunits (TRF1, RAP1B, POT1) protein level and shorten telomere length. Notably, supplementation of BME/L-C dampens the MS, thus the effect on neurobehaviour, antioxidant defence gene expression, and telomere biology is minimized in their offspring. Together, our results suggest that supplementation of BME/L-C during gestation dampens the MS and reduced oxidative stress-mediated changes in telomere shortening/biology and associated neurobehaviour in offspring born following MS. CI - (c) 2023 The Authors. FAU - Sivasangari, Karunanithi AU - Sivasangari K AD - Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Animal Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India. FAU - Sivamaruthi, Bhagavathi Sundaram AU - Sivamaruthi BS AD - Innovation Center for Holistic Health, Nutraceuticals, and Cosmeceuticals, Faculty of Pharmacy, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. AD - Office of Research Administration, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. FAU - Chaiyasut, Chaiyavat AU - Chaiyasut C AD - Innovation Center for Holistic Health, Nutraceuticals, and Cosmeceuticals, Faculty of Pharmacy, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. FAU - Rajan, Koilmani Emmanuvel AU - Rajan KE AD - Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Animal Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230921 PL - England TA - Heliyon JT - Heliyon JID - 101672560 PMC - PMC10520813 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Anxiety-like behaviour OT - Bacopa monnieri OT - Inter-limb coordination OT - Maternal stress OT - Shelterin complex OT - Telomere OT - l- carnosine COIS- 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- 2023/09/28 06:42 MHDA- 2023/09/28 06:43 PMCR- 2023/09/21 CRDT- 2023/09/28 04:17 PHST- 2022/12/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/07/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/09/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/09/28 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/09/28 06:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/09/28 04:17 [entrez] PHST- 2023/09/21 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2405-8440(23)07593-X [pii] AID - e20385 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20385 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Heliyon. 2023 Sep 21;9(10):e20385. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20385. eCollection 2023 Oct.