1. Altered Bioenergetic Profile in Umbilical Cord and Amniotic Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Newborns of Obese Women
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Carmela Nardelli, Marcella Nunziato, Lucia Sacchetti, Claudio Procaccini, Giuseppe Matarese, Lucia Mauriello, Giuseppe Maria Maruotti, Francesca D'Alessio, Pasquale Martinelli, Luigi Del Vecchio, Laura Iaffaldano, Lucio Pastore, Valeria D'Argenio, Giuseppe Labruna, Iaffaldano, Laura, Nardelli, Carmela, D'Alessio, Francesca, D'Argenio, Valeria, Nunziato, Marcella, Mauriello, Lucia, Procaccini, Claudio, Maruotti, Giuseppe Maria, Martinelli, Pasquale, Matarese, Giuseppe, Pastore, Lucio, Del Vecchio, Luigi, Labruna, Giuseppe, and Sacchetti, Lucia
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Adult ,Male ,0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,placenta ,Bioenergetics ,Offspring ,Context (language use) ,Type 2 diabetes ,Mitochondrion ,Biology ,Umbilical cord ,Umbilical Cord ,MSC ,03 medical and health sciences ,Oxygen Consumption ,Internal medicine ,Placenta ,Respiration ,medicine ,Humans ,Amnion ,Obesity ,Infant, Newborn ,amniotic stem cells ,Mesenchymal Stem Cells ,Cell Biology ,Hematology ,medicine.disease ,Mitochondria ,030104 developmental biology ,Endocrinology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Female ,amniotic stem cell ,Energy Metabolism ,Developmental Biology - Abstract
Nutritional imbalance and metabolic alterations associated with maternal obesity during pregnancy predispose offspring to obesity and/or to type 2 diabetes, but the mechanisms underlying these effects are still obscure. In this context, we evaluated whether the two main energy-producing pathways (glycolysis and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation) are impaired in obesity during pregnancy thus contributing to metabolic intrauterine alterations. Specifically, we studied metabolic abnormalities in the intrauterine life of newborns using stem cells isolated from amnion and umbilical cord (hA- and hUC-MSCs). We isolated, at delivery, neonatal hUC-MSCs from 13 obese (Ob) and 10 normal weight control (Co) women (prepregnancy body mass index >30 and
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- 2018
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