Prenatal protein malnutrition decreases mossy fibers-CA3 thorny excrescences asymmetrical synapses in adult rats. Granados-Rojas, L., Larriva-Sahd, J., Cintra, L., Gutiérrez-Ospina, G., Rondán, A., & Díaz-Cintra, S. Brain Research, 933(2):164–171, April, 2002.
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Prenatal protein malnutrition has deleterious effects on hippocampal structure and function that likely result from decreased synapse number. We thus evaluated long-term effects of prenatal protein malnutrition on the mossy fibers-CA3 thorny excrescences asymmetrical synapses in 220-day-old rats. Protein malnourished rats born from pregnant dams fed with 6% casein diet were cross-fostered to lactating control rats at birth. Control animals were fed with a 25% casein diet. Timm's stained material was used to estimate the total reference volume of the mossy fiber system suprapyramidal bundle by means of stereology. The mossy fiber-CA3 asymmetrical synapse numerical density was obtained by electron microscopy, using the physical disector method. The total number of mossy fiber-CA3 asymmetrical synapses was determined on the basis of the total reference volume of the mossy fiber system suprapyramidal bundle and the mossy fiber-CA3 asymmetrical synapse numerical density. Prenatal protein malnutrition produced long-lasting, significant decreases in the volume of the mossy fiber system suprapyramidal bundle and in the numerical density of mossy fiber-CA3 asymmetrical synapse, suggesting a reduction in the total number of this synapse type. Hence, prenatal protein malnutrition induces long lasting deleterious effects on the progression of developmental programs controlling synaptogenesis and/or synaptic consolidation, likely by affecting a myriad of cellular processes.
@article{granados-rojas_prenatal_2002,
	title = {Prenatal protein malnutrition decreases mossy fibers-{CA3} thorny excrescences asymmetrical synapses in adult rats},
	volume = {933},
	issn = {0006-8993},
	doi = {10.1016/s0006-8993(02)02314-4},
	abstract = {Prenatal protein malnutrition has deleterious effects on hippocampal structure and function that likely result from decreased synapse number. We thus evaluated long-term effects of prenatal protein malnutrition on the mossy fibers-CA3 thorny excrescences asymmetrical synapses in 220-day-old rats. Protein malnourished rats born from pregnant dams fed with 6\% casein diet were cross-fostered to lactating control rats at birth. Control animals were fed with a 25\% casein diet. Timm's stained material was used to estimate the total reference volume of the mossy fiber system suprapyramidal bundle by means of stereology. The mossy fiber-CA3 asymmetrical synapse numerical density was obtained by electron microscopy, using the physical disector method. The total number of mossy fiber-CA3 asymmetrical synapses was determined on the basis of the total reference volume of the mossy fiber system suprapyramidal bundle and the mossy fiber-CA3 asymmetrical synapse numerical density. Prenatal protein malnutrition produced long-lasting, significant decreases in the volume of the mossy fiber system suprapyramidal bundle and in the numerical density of mossy fiber-CA3 asymmetrical synapse, suggesting a reduction in the total number of this synapse type. Hence, prenatal protein malnutrition induces long lasting deleterious effects on the progression of developmental programs controlling synaptogenesis and/or synaptic consolidation, likely by affecting a myriad of cellular processes.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {2},
	journal = {Brain Research},
	author = {Granados-Rojas, Leticia and Larriva-Sahd, Jorge and Cintra, León and Gutiérrez-Ospina, Gabriel and Rondán, Adrian and Díaz-Cintra, Sofía},
	month = apr,
	year = {2002},
	pmid = {11931861},
	keywords = {Animals, Body Weight, Caseins, Cell Count, Cell Differentiation, Dendrites, Female, Food, Formulated, Male, Microscopy, Electron, Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal, Organ Size, Placental Insufficiency, Pregnancy, Protein Deficiency, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Silver Staining, Synapses},
	pages = {164--171},
}

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