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Article Dans Une Revue British Journal of Nutrition Année : 2013

Methyl donor deficiency affects small-intestinal differentiation and barrier function in rats

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Dietary methyl donors and their genetic determinants are associated with Crohn's disease risk. We investigated whether a methyl-deficient diet (MDD) may affect development and functions of the small intestine in rat pups from dams subjected to the MDD during gestation and lactation. At 1 month before pregnancy, adult females were fed with either a standard food or a diet without vitamin B12, folate and choline. A global wall hypotrophy was observed in the distal small bowel (MDD animals 0·30 mm v. controls 0·58 mm; P< 0·001) with increased crypt apoptosis (3·37 v. 0·4 %; P< 0·001), loss of enterocyte differentiation in the villus and a reduction in intestinal alkaline phosphatase production. Cleaved caspase-3 immunostaining (MDD animals 3·37 % v. controls 0·4 %, P< 0·001) and the Apostain labelling index showed increased crypt apoptosis (3·5 v. 1·4 %; P= 0·018). Decreased proliferation was observed in crypts of the proximal small bowel with a reduced number of minichromosome maintenance 6 (MDD animals 52·83 % v. controls 83·17 %; P= 0·048) and proliferating cell nuclear antigen-positive cells (46·25 v. 59 %; P= 0·05). This lack of enterocyte differentiation in the distal small bowel was associated with an impaired expression of β-catenin and a decreased β-catenin–E-cadherin interaction. The MDD affected the intestinal barrier in the proximal small bowel by decreasing Paneth cell number after immunostaining for lysosyme (MDD animals 8·66 % v. controls 21·66 %) and by reducing goblet cell number and mucus production after immunostaining for mucin-2 (crypts 8·66 v. 15·33 %; villus 7 v. 17 %). The MDD has dual effects on the small intestine by producing dramatic effects on enterocyte differentiation and barrier function in rats.

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hal-01704507 , version 1 (08-02-2018)

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Aude Bressenot, Shabnam Pooya, Carine Bossenmeyer-Pourie, Guillaume Gauchotte, Adeline Germain, et al.. Methyl donor deficiency affects small-intestinal differentiation and barrier function in rats. British Journal of Nutrition, 2013, 109 (04), pp.667 - 677. ⟨10.1017/S0007114512001869⟩. ⟨hal-01704507⟩
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