Acceleration of reflex maturation and physical development in suckling rats: effects of a maternal diet containing lipids from goat milk

Abstract

The supply of goat's milk offered to Wistar rats during pregnancy and lactation provided a variety of fatty acids necessary to accelerate the development of offspring.

Buriti oil (Mauritia flexuosa L.) negatively impacts somatic growth and reflex maturation and increases retinol deposition in young rats

“…The body weight of neonates treated with crude or refined Buriti oil was lower when compared with the control group. The same was observed for animals receiving ketogenic diet (Soares et al, 2009), the opposite behavior was induced by diet containing goat milk fat (Soares et al, 2014) and for animals receiving higher intake of flaxseed oil during pregnancy and lactation (Guarda et al, 2014).…”

“…Many experimental and clinical outcomes have shown that injuries during the critical period can change the sequence of these events, causing various and persistent effects on the NS ontogenesis. Among factors that cause injuries, the use of drugs (Deiró et al, 2008), malnutrition (Anselmo et al, 2006) and changes in quantity and quality of dietary lipids stand out (Soares et al, 2009;Santillán et al, 2010;Soares et al, 2014). Linolenic (n-3) and linoleic acids (n-6), essential fatty acids and precursors of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) are among dietary lipids (Blanchard et al, 2013).…”

“…Vitamin A and fatty acids are nutrients present in vegetable oils in different proportions. However, many studies have evaluated the effects of fatty acids (Soares et al, 2014;Santilan et al, 2010;Church et al, 2009) or vitamins separately (Zhang et al, 2015;Coluccia et al, 2008). Researches evaluating the effect of consumption of fatty acids along with vitamins on the development of newborns and teratogenicity are scarce in literature.…”

Maternal intake of cashew nuts accelerates reflex maturation and facilitates memory in the offspring

“…The maternal diet with cashew nuts provided a variety of fatty acids that allowed for excellent formation of the nervous system in the offspring as shown by the results. Accelerated reflex maturation was observed in the animals treated during lactation with goat milk, which is also a source of different fatty acids (Soares et al, 2014). An opposing result was observed in a study using a maternal diet containing Buriti oil, showing retardation in reflex maturation (Medeiros et al, 2015).…”

Swimming exercise before and during pregnancy: Promising preventive approach to impact offspring's health

“…Ethological studies have been commonly conducted when investigating new substances in order to define its effects on behavior (Gauvin et al, 2016). Opposite effects have been observed when testing different substances of diet; caffeine consumption during pregnancy have been associated to delayed neuromotor development in rats (Souza et al, 2015), while a goat milk lipid diet during pregnancy have been associated to accelerated physical development and reflex maturation in rats (Soares et al, 2014). It is worthy to state that the present study is the first to observe the effects of maternal exercise before and during pregnancy on developmental behavior pattern.…”