title: [Importance of diets and their effect on fetal development: function and structure of the endocrine pancreas following protein deficiency during intrauterine life].
abstract: When an isocaloric low protein diet (8% versus 20%) is administrated to rats during gestation, the fetus or the neonate has a lower body weight and the structure and function of the endocrine pancreas is altered: islet cell proliferation, islet size and islet vascularisation are reduced when compared with a control group. If these fetal islets are cultured during 7 days in vitro, they secrete less insulin than normal islets in response to an AA challenge. When these newborns are fed with a low protein diet until adult age and analyzed at 70 days, the same alterations of the endocrine pancreas persist: the in vitro insulin secretion of the isolated islets in response to AA is dramatically depressed although their response to glucose is normal. However in vivo glucose and insulin levels in response to oral glucose challenge are abnormal. In addition, permanent functional alterations seem to persist when induced in utero. A normal diet (20% protein) given from birth to adulthood does not restore a normal insulin response in vivo to an oral glucose challenge.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie animale, faculté des Sciences, Université catholique de Louvain.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Hoet
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dahri
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Snoeck
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Reusens-Billen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Remacle
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development; D005260:Female; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D000078790:Insulin Secretion; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000166:cytology / Q000196:embryology* / Q000378:metabolism; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011488:Protein Deficiency / Q000503:physiopathology*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin
vernacular_title: Importance des régimes et leur influence sur le développement foetal: fonction et structure du pancréas endocrine suite à une carence en protéines au cours de la vie intra-utérine.