Emulsifiers during gestation: The risks of ultra-processed food revealed in mice

Delphine Franssen; Anne-Simone Parent

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002265

Emulsifiers during gestation: The risks of ultra-processed food revealed in mice

PLoS Biol. 2023 Aug 25;21(8):e3002265. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002265. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Authors

Delphine Franssen¹, Anne-Simone Parent^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
² GIGA-Neurosciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
³ Pediatric Department, University Hospital, Liège, Belgium.

Abstract

Several dietary components disrupt the control of energy balance. A new study in PLOS Biology shows that, in mice, maternal consumption of emulsifiers induces a rewiring of the hypothalamic feeding circuits and causes neuropsychological impairment in the offspring.

Copyright: © 2023 Franssen, Parent. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Female
Food, Processed*
Mice
Pregnancy

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Belgian National Foundation for Research, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, grant number J.0150.22 - CDR (ASP) and the University of Liège (FSR 2022) (ASP). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.