ArticleJournal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle2022
Maternal vitamin D deficiency affects the morphology and function of glycolytic muscle in adult offspring rats.
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- Glucose metabolism in osteoporosis: A potential therapeutic target (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2026Review
- Dietary Vitamin D2 Is Less Potent Than Vitamin D3 at Maintaining or Restoring Structure and Metabolism of Skeletal Muscle and Heart in Male Rats.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2026Article
- Vitamin D and Sarcopenia: Implications for Muscle Health.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Perinatal Vitamin D Deficiency Enhances Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis in Weanling Rats.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- The maternal lifestyle in pregnancy: Implications for foetal skeletal muscle development.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2024Review
- Intrauterine hyperglycaemia during late gestation caused mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle of male offspring through CREB/PGC1A signaling.Nutrition & diabetes · 2024Article
- Maternal Vitamin D Deficiency Impairs the Development of β Cells in Offspring Rats in a Sex-Dependent Manner.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
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- Lack of vitamin D signalling shifts skeletal muscles towards oxidative metabolism.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2024Article
- Vitamin D and Sarcopenia in the Senior People: A Review of Mechanisms and Comprehensive Prevention and Treatment Strategies.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2024Review
- Maternal vitamin D deficiency affects the morphology and function of glycolytic muscle in adult offspring rats.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundFetal stage is a critical developmental window for the skeletal muscle, but little information is available about the impact of maternal vitamin D (Vit. D) deficiency (VDD) on offspring lean mass development in the adult life of male and female animals.
methodsFemale rats (Wistar Hannover) were fed either a control (1000 IU Vit. D3/kg) or a VDD diet (0 IU Vit. D3/kg) for 6 weeks and during gestation and lactation. At weaning, male and female offspring were randomly separated and received a standard diet up to 180 days old.
resultsVitamin D deficiency induced muscle atrophy in the male (M-VDD) offspring at the end of weaning, an effect that was reverted along the time. Following 180 days, fast-twitch skeletal muscles [extensor digitorum longus (EDL)] from the M-VDD showed a decrease (20%; P < 0.05) in the number of total fibres but an increase in the cross-sectional area of IIB (17%; P < 0.05), IIA (19%; P < 0.05) and IIAX (21%; P < 0.05) fibres. The fibre hypertrophy was associated with the higher protein levels of MyoD (73%; P < 0.05) and myogenin (55% %; P < 0.05) and in the number of satellite cells (128.8 ± 14 vs. 91 ± 7.6 nuclei Pax7 + in the M-CTRL; P < 0.05). M-VDD increased time to fatigue during ex vivo contractions of EDL muscles and showed an increase in the phosphorylation levels of IGF-1/insulin receptor and their downstream targets related to anabolic processes and myogenic activation, including Ser
conclusionsThese data show that maternal VDD selectively affects the development of type-II muscle fibres in male offspring rats but not in female offspring rats and suggest that the enhancement of their size and fatigue resistance in fast-twitch skeletal muscle (EDL) is probably due to a compensatory increase in the muscle content of Vit. D in the adult age.
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