Maternal cafeteria diet exposure primes depression-like behavior in the offspring evoking lower brain volume related to changes in synaptic terminals and gliosis

Abstract Maternal nutritional programming by caloric exposure during pregnancy and lactation results in long-term behavioral modification in the offspring. Here, we characterized the effect of maternal caloric exposure on synaptic and brain morphological organization and its effects on depression-li...

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Main Authors: Luis A. Trujillo-Villarreal, Viktor J. Romero-Díaz, Iván Alberto Marino-Martínez, Lizeth Fuentes-Mera, Marco Antonio Ponce-Camacho, Gabriel A. Devenyi, M. Mallar Chakravarty, Alberto Camacho-Morales, Eduardo E. Garza-Villarreal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-01157-x