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Lactation improves pancreatic β cell mass and function through serotonin production

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Moon, Joon Ho, Kim, Hyeongseok, Kim, Hyunki, Park, Jungsun, Choi, Wonsuk, Choi, Wongun, Hong, Hyun Jung, Ro, Hyun-Joo +9 more·2020·Science Translational Medicine

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Lactation benefits women’s metabolic health by improving pancreatic β cell mass and function through serotonin production in β cells.

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  • These factors resulted in improved β-cell function at 4 years postpartum in Korean women with GDM who previously lactated compared to those who did not lactate (40% increase in disposition index).

    “These factors resulted in improved β-cell function at 4 years postpartum in Korean women with GDM who previously lactated compared to those who did not lactate (40% increase in disposition index) [56].”

    From Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Diagnostic Approaches and Maternal-Offspring Complications (2022) · cites this paper as [56]

    The Results section reports a significantly higher disposition index in women who had lactated at the last follow-up, a mean of 3.6 years postpartum; Methods says participants were recruited in Korea. However, the cohort included women with either GDM or gestational impaired glucose tolerance, and our copy does not report the claimed 40% increase. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Modifiable risk factors including lactation, exercise, healthy diet, postpartum weight loss, and improving body composition correlate with improvement in insulin sensitivity.

    “In addition to these nonmodifiable risk factors, clinicians should be aware of improving modifiable risk factors, including lactation, exercise, healthy diet, postpartum weight loss, and improving body composition [46,53-56], all of which correlate with improvement in insulin sensitivity.”

    From Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Diagnostic Approaches and Maternal-Offspring Complications (2022) · cites this paper as [56]

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  • During lactation, β-cell mass expansion and insulin secretion are potentiated with increased circulating prolactin.

    “During lactation, β-cell mass expansion and insulin secretion are potentiated with increased circulating prolactin [56].”

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Authors
Moon, J. H., Kim, H., Kim, H., Park, J., Choi, W., Choi, W., Hong, H. J., Ro, H.-J., Jun, S., Choi, S. H., Banerjee, R. R., Shong, M., Cho, N. H., Kim, S. K., German, M. S., Jang, H. C., & Kim, H.
Affiliations
  • Seoul National University (KR)
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
  • Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
  • Chungnam National University (KR)
  • Korea Basic Science Institute (KR)
  • University of Alabama (US)
  • Ajou University (KR)
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
  • Moon, Joon Ho
  • Kim, Hyeongseok
  • German, Michael S.
  • Jang, Hak Chul
  • Kim, Hail
Venue
Science Translational Medicine
Published
2020-04-29
Volume
12
Issue
541
ISSN
  • 1946-6234 (ISSN-L)
  • 1946-6242
OpenAlex
W3021541906
Cited by
67
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 1
FWCI
7.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science Translational Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • AJOU Open Repository (Ajou University) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • KAIST Institutional Repository (KAIST) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (DK104211, P30 DK116074-01, Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award K08, P30 DK063720)
  • Larry L. Hillblom Foundation (2018-D-0006-NET)
  • National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017H1A2A1042095, NRF-2015M3A9B3028218, NRF-2018R1A2A3074646, NRF-2013H1A8A1003985, NRF-2018R1A6A3A01012333)
  • National Research Council of Science and Technology (CRC-16-01-KRICT)
  • Health Fellowship Foundation
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Diabetes and associated disorders
Keywords
lactation, pancreatic beta cells, serotonin, beta-cell mass, beta-cell proliferation, prolactin, insulin secretion, glucose tolerance, oxidative stress, beta-cell survival, postpartum diabetes, insulin resistance
MeSH terms
Animals, Blood Glucose, Breast Feeding, Female, Humans, Insulin, Lactation, Serotonin, Insulin-Secreting Cells, Mice

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