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The effects of a high-energy diet on hippocampal function and blood-brain barrier integrity in the rat

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Kanoski, Scott E., Zhang, Yanshu, Zheng, Wei, Davidson, Terry L.·2010·Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

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Cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease are linked with intake of a Western diet, characterized by high levels of saturated fats and simple carbohydrates. In rats, these dietary components have been shown to disrupt hippocampal-dependent learning and memory processes, particularly those involving spatial memory. Using a rat model, the present research assessed the degree to which consumption of a high-energy (HE) diet, similar to those found in modern Western cultures, produces a selective impairment in hippocampal function as opposed to a more global cognitive disruption. Learning and memory performance was examined following 90-day consumption of an HE-diet in three nonspatial discrimination learning problems that differed with respect to their dependence on the integrity of the hippocampus. The results showed that consumption of the HE-diet impaired performance in a hippocampal-dependent feature negative discrimination problem relative to chow-fed controls, whereas performance was spared on two discrimination problems that do not rely on the hippocampus. To explore the mechanism whereby consuming HE-diets impairs cognitive function, we investigated the effect of HE-diets on the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). We found that HE-diet consumption produced a decrease in mRNA expression of tight junction proteins, particularly Claudin-5 and -12, in the choroid plexus and the BBB. Consequently, an increased blood-to-brain permeability of sodium fluorescein was observed in the hippocampus, but not in the striatum and prefrontal cortex following HE-diet access. These results indicate that hippocampal function may be particularly vulnerable to disruption by HE-diets, and this disruption may be related to impaired BBB integrity.

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  • Health behaviors such as sleep and diet can alter blood-brain barrier permeability.

    “Further, there are health behaviors such as sleep and diet that can alter the permeability of the blood-brain barrier (He et al., 2014; Kanoski et al., 2010)”
  • Hypocaloric diets and/or diets of higher quality, with low fat and sugar intakes, are associated with larger brain volumes, better white matter integrity, and better cerebral health in animal models.

    “Hypocaloric diets and/or diets of higher quality, with low fat and sugar intakes, are associated with larger brain volumes, better white matter integrity, and better cerebral health [94] in animal models.”
  • Hypercaloric diets, high in meat, carbohydrate and sugars intake and low in fish and vegetables, are associated with brain atrophy and cortical thickness.

    “Also, cross-sectional studies have found positive associations between higher adherence to the MedDiet and larger brain volumes [96,97,98], cerebral connectivity [99], or fewer white matter lesions [100] at older ages, whereas hypercaloric diets, high in meat, carbohydrate and sugars intake and low in fish and vegetables contents, are associated with brain atrophy [94] and cortical thickness [101]”

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Authors
Kanoski, S. E., Zhang, Y., Zheng, W., & Davidson, T. L.
Affiliations
Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
Venue
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Published
2010-07-08
Volume
21
Issue
1
Pages
207-219
ISSN
  • 1387-2877 (ISSN-L)
  • 1875-8908
OpenAlex
W2157103967
Cited by
324
References
61
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FWCI
4.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R01 HS029792)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ES008146, R21ES017055, R56ES008146, ES017055, R01ES008146)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01HD052112, R01 HD44179, R01HD044179, R01HD028792, R01 HD 29792)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Barrier Structure and Function Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Keywords
hypercaloric diet, Western diet
MeSH terms
Animals, Behavior, Animal, Blood-Brain Barrier, Body Weight, Cognition Disorders, Dietary Fats, Discrimination Learning, Disease Models, Animal, Food Deprivation, Gene Expression Regulation, Hippocampus, Male, Membrane Proteins, Time Factors, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Maze Learning, Tight Junctions, Rats

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