Chronic Powder Diet After Weaning Induces Sleep, Behavioral, Neuroanatomical, and Neurophysiological Changes in Mice

PLoS One. 2015 Dec 2;10(12):e0143909. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143909. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the effects of chronic powder diet feeding on sleep patterns and other physiological/anatomical changes in mice. C57BL/6 male mice were divided into two groups from weaning: a group fed with solid food (SD) and a group fed with powder food (PD), and sleep and physiological and anatomical changes were compared between the groups. PD exhibited less cranial bone structure development and a significant weight gain. Furthermore, these PD mice showed reduced number of neurogenesis in the hippocampus. Sleep analysis showed that PD induced attenuated diurnal sleep/wake rhythm, characterized by increased sleep during active period and decreased sleep during rest period. With food deprivation (FD), PD showed less enhancement of wake/locomotor activity compared to SD, indicating reduced food-seeking behavior during FD. These results suggest that powder feeding in mice results in a cluster of detrimental symptoms caused by abnormal energy metabolism and anatomical/neurological changes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Behavior, Animal*
  • Body Temperature
  • Diet*
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Nervous System / anatomy & histology
  • Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
  • Neurogenesis
  • Powders
  • Sleep*
  • Weaning*

Substances

  • Powders

Grants and funding

EA received a research grant from Mishima Kaiun Foundation. http://www.mishima-kaiun.or.jp/assist/gakujutu.html. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.