ArticleCurrent Alzheimer research2016
Maternal Choline Supplementation: A Potential Prenatal Treatment for Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease.
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- Meta-analysis of metabolites involved in bioenergetic pathways reveals a pseudohypoxic state in Down syndrome.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2020Pooled it
- Choline, Neurological Development and Brain Function: A Systematic Review Focusing on the First 1000 Days.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Prenatal choline supplementation improves child sustained attention: A 7-year follow-up of a randomized controlled feeding trial.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2022Trial
- Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2018Trial
- Maternal Choline Supplementation in a Mouse Model of Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease Generates Unique Expression Profile Mosaics Within Three Hippocampal Excitatory Neuronal Populations.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026Article
- Interconnected Developmental Trajectories of the Brain, Gut, and Sleep in Early Life: The First 1000 Days of Nutritional Opportunity.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Chronic suppression of monoacylglycerol lipase restores adult neurogenesis in the septal but not the temporal DG in Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome.Brain research bulletin · 2026Article
- Benefits of Maternal Choline Supplementation on Aged Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons (BFCNs) in a Mouse Model of Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease.Biomolecules · 2025Article
- The Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Offspring Cognition in Adolescence: Protocol for a 14-year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Feeding Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Evidence that cholinergic mechanisms contribute to hyperexcitability at early stages in Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in dementia · 2025Review
- Profiling hippocampal neuronal populations reveals unique gene expression mosaics reflective of connectivity-based degeneration in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2025Article
- Current insights and prospects for the pathogenesis and treatment of clinical manifestations associated with Down syndrome through neurotransmitter, inflammatory, and oxidative stress pathways.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Maternal choline supplementation rescues early endosome pathology in basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.Neurobiology of aging · 2024Article
- Assessing the Benefit of Dietary Choline Supplementation Throughout Adulthood in the Ts65Dn Mouse Model of Down Syndrome.Nutrients · 2024Article
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- The Interplay Between Dietary Choline and Cardiometabolic Disorders: A Review of Current Evidence.Current nutrition reports · 2024Review
- Choline supplementation in early life improves and low levels of choline can impair outcomes in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- The role of prenatal choline and its impact on neurodevelopmental disorders.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Neurons Display Sublayer and Circuitry Dependent Degenerative Expression Profiles in Aged Female Down Syndrome Mice.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Article
- Maternal choline supplementation protects against age-associated cholinergic and GABAergic basal forebrain neuron degeneration in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.Neurobiology of disease · 2023Article
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Abstract
Although Down syndrome (DS) can be diagnosed prenatally, currently there are no effective treatments to lessen the intellectual disability (ID) which is a hallmark of this disorder. Furthermore, starting as early as the third decade of life, DS individuals exhibit the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) with subsequent dementia, adding substantial emotional and financial burden to their families and society at large. A potential therapeutic strategy emerging from the study of trisomic mouse models of DS is to supplement the maternal diet with additional choline during pregnancy and lactation. Studies demonstrate that maternal choline supplementation (MCS) markedly improves spatial cognition and attentional function, as well as normalizes adult hippocampal neurogenesis and offers protection to basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCNs) in the Ts65Dn mouse model of DS. These effects on neurogenesis and BFCNs correlate significantly with spatial cognition, suggesting functional relationships. In this review, we highlight some of these provocative findings, which suggest that supplementing the maternal diet with additional choline may serve as an effective and safe prenatal strategy for improving cognitive, affective, and neural functioning in DS. In light of growing evidence that all pregnancies would benefit from increased maternal choline intake, this type of recommendation could be given to all pregnant women, thereby providing a very early intervention for individuals with DS, and include babies born to mothers unaware that they are carrying a fetus with DS.
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