Impact of nutrition on brain development and its neuroprotective implications following preterm birth

Pediatric Research

Volumn 77, Issue , 2015, Pages 148-155

  Keunen, Kristin ^a,b   Van Elburg, Ruurd M ^c,d   Van Bel, Frank ^a,b   Benders, Manon J N L ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Nutricia Nederland   (Netherlands)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; AMINO ACID; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PREBIOTIC AGENT;

BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE; MICROBIOME; NEUROPROTECTION; NUTRITION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURE LABOR; REVIEW; WHITE MATTER INJURY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFANT NUTRITION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACIDS; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PREBIOTICS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROBIOTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84920593640     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2014.171     Document Type: Review

References (80)

1. Clouchoux C, Guizard N, Evans AC, du Plessis AJ, Limperopoulos C. Normative fetal brain growth by quantitative in vivo magnetic resonance imaging. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2012;206:173.e1-8.
2. Hüppi PS, Warfield S, Kikinis R, et al. Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of brain development in premature and mature newborns. Ann Neurol 1998;43:224-35.
3. Dubois J, Benders M, Cachia A, et al. Mapping the early cortical folding process in the preterm newborn brain. Cereb Cortex 2008; 18:1444-54.
4. Volpe JJ. Brain injury in premature infants: a complex amalgam of destructive and developmental disturbances. Lancet Neurol 2009;8:110-24.
5. Volpe JJ. Neurology of the Newborn. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2008.
6. van Haastert IC, Groenendaal F, Uiterwaal CS, et al. Decreasing incidence and severity of cerebral palsy in prematurely born children. J Pediatr 2011;159:86-91.e1.
7. Ball G, Boardman JP, Aljabar P, et al. The influence of preterm birth on the developing thalamocortical connectome. Cortex 2013;49:1711-21.
8. Limperopoulos C, Benson CB, Bassan H, et al. Cerebellar hemorrhage in the preterm infant: ultrasonographic findings and risk factors. Pediatrics 2005;116:717-24.
9. Volpe JJ. Cerebellum of the premature infant: rapidly developing, vulnerable, clinically important. J Child Neurol 2009;24:1085-104.
10. Soltirovska Salamon A, Groenendaal F, van Haastert IC, et al. Neuroimaging and neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm infants with a periventricular haemorrhagic infarction located in the temporal or frontal lobe. Dev Med Child Neurol 2014;56:547-55.
11. Limperopoulos C, Bassan H, Gauvreau K, et al. Does cerebellar injury in premature infants contribute to the high prevalence of long-term cognitive, learning, and behavioral disability in survivors? Pediatrics 2007;120:584-93.
12. Patra K, Wilson-Costello D, Taylor HG, Mercuri-Minich N, Hack M. Grades I-II intraventricular hemorrhage in extremely low birth weight infants: effects on neurodevelopment. J Pediatr 2006;149:169-73.
13. Volpe JJ, Kinney HC, Jensen FE, Rosenberg PA. The developing oligodendrocyte: key cellular target in brain injury in the premature infant. Int J Dev Neurosci 2011;29:423-40.
14. Levitsky DA, Strupp BJ. Malnutrition and the brain: changing concepts, changing concerns. J Nutr 1995;125:Suppl 8:2212S-20S.
15. Penido AB, Rezende GH, Abreu RV, et al. Malnutrition during central nervous system growth and development impairs permanently the subcortical auditory pathway. Nutr Neurosci 2012;15:31-6.
16. Kerac M, Postels DG, Mallewa M, et al. The interaction of malnutrition and neurologic disability in Africa. Semin Pediatr Neurol 2014;21:42-9.
17. Roseboom TJ, Painter RC, van Abeelen AF, Veenendaal MV, de Rooij SR. Hungry in the womb: what are the consequences? Lessons from the Dutch famine. Maturitas 2011;70:141-5.
18. Vinall J, Grunau RE, Brant R, et al. Slower postnatal growth is associated with delayed cerebral cortical maturation in preterm newborns. Sci Transl Med 2013;5:168ra8.
19. Cormack BE, Bloomfield FH. Increased protein intake decreases postnatal growth faltering in ELBW babies. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2013;98:F399-404.
20. Dinerstein A, Nieto RM, Solana CL, Perez GP, Otheguy LE, Larguia AM. Early and aggressive nutritional strategy (parenteral and enteral) decreases postnatal growth failure in very low birth weight infants. J Perinatol 2006;26:436-42.
21. Ehrenkranz RA, Das A, Wrage LA, et al.; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Early nutrition mediates the influence of severity of illness on extremely LBW infants. Pediatr Res 2011;69:522-9.
22. Franz AR, Pohlandt F, Bode H, et al. Intrauterine, early neonatal, and postdischarge growth and neurodevelopmental outcome at 5.4 years in extremely preterm infants after intensive neonatal nutritional support. Pediatrics 2009;123:e101-9.
23. Lucas A, Morley R, Cole TJ. Randomised trial of early diet in preterm babies and later intelligence quotient. BMJ 1998;317:1481-7.
24. Morgan C, McGowan P, Herwitker S, Hart AE, Turner MA. Postnatal head growth in preterm infants: a randomized controlled parenteral nutrition study. Pediatrics 2014;133:e120-8.
25. Stephens BE, Walden RV, Gargus RA, et al. First-week protein and energy intakes are associated with 18-month developmental outcomes in extremely low birth weight infants. Pediatrics 2009;123:1337-43.
26. Tan M, Abernethy L, Cooke R. Improving head growth in preterm infants-a randomised controlled trial II: MRI and developmental outcomes in the first year. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2008;93:F342-6.
27. Isaacs EB, Morley R, Lucas A. Early diet and general cognitive outcome at adolescence in children born at or below 30 weeks gestation. J Pediatr 2009;155:229-34.
28. Hansen-Pupp I, Hövel H, Hellström A, et al. Postnatal decrease in circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and low brain volumes in very preterm infants. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2011;96:1129-35.
29. Hansen-Pupp I, Hövel H, Löfqvist C, et al. Circulatory insulin-like growth factor-I and brain volumes in relation to neurodevelopmental outcome in very preterm infants. Pediatr Res 2013;74:564-9.
30. Isaacs EB, Gadian DG, Sabatini S, et al. The effect of early human diet on caudate volumes and IQ. Pediatr Res 2008;63:308-14.
31. Cheong JL, Hunt RW, Anderson PJ, et al. Head growth in preterm infants: correlation with magnetic resonance imaging and neurodevelopmental outcome. Pediatrics 2008;121:e1534-40.
32. Darlow BA, Graham PJ. Vitamin A supplementation to prevent mortality and short- and long-term morbidity in very low birthweight infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011;10:CD000501.
33. Ibrahim M, Sinn J, McGuire W. Iodine supplementation for the prevention of mortality and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006;2:CD005253.
34. Mills RJ, Davies MW. Enteral iron supplementation in preterm and low birth weight infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012;3:CD005095.
35. Schulzke SM, Patole SK, Simmer K. Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in preterm infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011;2:CD000375.
36. Williams F, Hume R, Ogston S, Brocklehurst P, Morgan K, Juszczak E; I2S2 team. A summary of the iodine supplementation study protocol (I2S2): a UK multicentre randomised controlled trial in preterm infants. Neonatology 2014;105:282-9.
37. Dabydeen L, Thomas JE, Aston TJ, Hartley H, Sinha SK, Eyre JA. Highenergy and -protein diet increases brain and corticospinal tract growth in term and preterm infants after perinatal brain injury. Pediatrics 2008;121:148-56.
38. Chau V, Brant R, Poskitt KJ, Tam EW, Synnes A, Miller SP. Postnatal infection is associated with widespread abnormalities of brain development in premature newborns. Pediatr Res 2012;71:274-9.
39. Shah DK, Doyle LW, Anderson PJ, et al. Adverse neurodevelopment in preterm infants with postnatal sepsis or necrotizing enterocolitis is mediated by white matter abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging at term. J Pediatr 2008;153:170-5, 175.e1.
40. Adams E, Chau V, Poskitt KJ, Grunau RE, Synnes A, Miller SP. Tractography-based quantitation of corticospinal tract development in premature newborns. J Pediatr 2010;156:882-8, 888.e1.
41. Korecka A, Arulampalam V. The gut microbiome: scourge, sentinel or spectator? J Oral Microbiol 2012;4:9367-81.
42. Ivanov II, Littman DR. Modulation of immune homeostasis by commensal bacteria. Curr Opin Microbiol 2011;14:106-14.
43. Diaz Heijtz R, Wang S, Anuar F, et al. Normal gut microbiota modulates brain development and behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2011;108:3047-52.
44. Neufeld KM, Kang N, Bienenstock J, Foster JA. Reduced anxiety-like behavior and central neurochemical change in germ-free mice. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2011;23:255-64, e119.
45. Boulanger LM. Immune proteins in brain development and synaptic plasticity. Neuron 2009;64:93-109.
46. Deverman BE, Patterson PH. Cytokines and CNS development. Neuron 2009;64:61-78.
47. de Kieviet JF, Oosterlaan J, Vermeulen RJ, Pouwels PJ, Lafeber HN, van Elburg RM. Effects of glutamine on brain development in very preterm children at school age. Pediatrics 2012;130:e1121-7.
48. van Zwol A, van den Berg A, Huisman J, et al. Neurodevelopmental outcomes of very low-birth-weight infants after enteral glutamine supplementation in the neonatal period. Acta Paediatr 2008;97:562-7.
49. de Kieviet JF, Oosterlaan J, van Zwol A, Boehm G, Lafeber HN, van Elburg RM. Effects of neonatal enteral glutamine supplementation on cognitive, motor and behavioural outcomes in very preterm and/or very low birth weight children at school age. Br J Nutr 2012;108:2215-20.
50. Wang WW, Qiao SY, Li DF. Amino acids and gut function. Amino Acids 2009;37:105-10.
51. Moe-Byrne T, Wagner JV, McGuire W. Glutamine supplementation to prevent morbidity and mortality in preterm infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012;3:CD001457.
52. Arndt H, Kullmann F, Reuss F, Schölmerich J, Palitzsch KD. Glutamine attenuates leukocyte-endothelial cell adhesion in indomethacin-induced intestinal inflammation in the rat. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 1999;23:12-8.
53. Coëffier M, Marion R, Leplingard A, Lerebours E, Ducrotté P, Déchelotte P. Glutamine decreases interleukin-8 and interleukin-6 but not nitric oxide and prostaglandins e(2) production by human gut in-vitro. Cytokine 2002;18:92-7.
54. Bakiri Y, Burzomato V, Frugier G, Hamilton NB, Káradóttir R, Attwell D. Glutamatergic signaling in the brain's white matter. Neuroscience 2009;158:266-74.
55. Newcomb R, Sun X, Taylor L, Curthoys N, Giffard RG. Increased production of extracellular glutamate by the mitochondrial glutaminase following neuronal death. J Biol Chem 1997;272:11276-82.
56. van den Berg A, van Elburg RM, Teerlink T, Lafeber HN, Twisk JW, Fetter WP. A randomized controlled trial of enteral glutamine supplementation in very low birth weight infants: plasma amino acid concentrations. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2005;41:66-71.
57. Martin CR, Walker WA. Probiotics: role in pathophysiology and prevention in necrotizing enterocolitis. Semin Perinatol 2008;32:127-37.
58. Alfaleh K, Anabrees J, Bassler D, Al-Kharfi T. Probiotics for prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011;3:CD005496.
59. Jenke A, Ruf EM, Hoppe T, Heldmann M, Wirth S. Bifidobacterium septicaemia in an extremely low-birthweight infant under probiotic therapy. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2012;97:F217-8.
60. Kunz AN, Noel JM, Fairchok MP. Two cases of Lactobacillus bacteremia during probiotic treatment of short gut syndrome. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2004;38:457-8.
61. Ohishi A, Takahashi S, Ito Y, et al. Bifidobacterium septicemia associated with postoperative probiotic therapy in a neonate with omphalocele. J Pediatr 2010;156:679-81.
62. Thompson C, McCarter YS, Krause PJ, Herson VC. Lactobacillus acidophilus sepsis in a neonate. J Perinatol 2001;21:258-60.
63. Luoto R, Isolauri E, Lehtonen L. Safety of Lactobacillus GG probiotic in infants with very low birth weight: twelve years of experience. Clin Infect Dis 2010;50:1327-8.
64. Al-Asmakh M, Anuar F, Zadjali F, Rafter J, Pettersson S. Gut microbial communities modulating brain development and function. Gut Microbes 2012;3:366-73.
65. Messaoudi M, Lalonde R, Violle N, et al. Assessment of psychotropic-like properties of a probiotic formulation (Lactobacillus helveticus R0052 and Bifidobacterium longum R0175) in rats and human subjects. Br J Nutr 2011;105:755-64.
66. Bercik P, Denou E, Collins J, et al. The intestinal microbiota affect central levels of brain-derived neurotropic factor and behavior in mice. Gastroenterology 2011;141:599-609, 609.e1-3.
67. Desbonnet L, Garrett L, Clarke G, Kiely B, Cryan JF, Dinan TG. Effects of the probiotic Bifidobacterium infantis in the maternal separation model of depression. Neuroscience 2010;170:1179-88.
68. Bercik P, Park AJ, Sinclair D, et al. The anxiolytic effect of Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001 involves vagal pathways for gut-brain communication. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2011;23:1132-9.
69. Cryan JF, O'Mahony SM. The microbiome-gut-brain axis: from bowel to behavior. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2011;23:187-92.
70. Chou IC, Kuo HT, Chang JS, et al. Lack of effects of oral probiotics on growth and neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm very low birth weight infants. J Pediatr 2010;156:393-6.
71. Romeo MG, Romeo DM, Trovato L, et al. Role of probiotics in the prevention of the enteric colonization by Candida in preterm newborns: incidence of late-onset sepsis and neurological outcome. J Perinatol 2011;31:63-9.
72. Bode L. Recent advances on structure, metabolism, and function of human milk oligosaccharides. J Nutr 2006;136:2127-30.
73. Kapiki A, Costalos C, Oikonomidou C, Triantafyllidou A, Loukatou E, Pertrohilou V. The effect of a fructo-oligosaccharide supplemented formula on gut flora of preterm infants. Early Hum Dev 2007;83:335-9.
74. Jeurink PV, van Esch BC, Rijnierse A, Garssen J, Knippels LM. Mechanisms underlying immune effects of dietary oligosaccharides. Am J Clin Nutr 2013;98:572S-7S.
75. Srinivasjois R, Rao S, Patole S. Prebiotic supplementation in preterm neonates: updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Clin Nutr 2013;32:958-65.
76. Darlow BA, Austin NC. Selenium supplementation to prevent shortterm morbidity in preterm neonates. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2003; CD003312.
77. Amin HJ, Zamora SA, McMillan DD, et al. Arginine supplementation prevents necrotizing enterocolitis in the premature infant. J Pediatr 2002;140:425-31.
78. Amin HJ, Soraisham AS, Sauve RS. Neurodevelopmental outcomes of premature infants treated with l-arginine for prevention of necrotising enterocolitis. J Paediatr Child Health 2009;45:219-23.
79. Johnson L, Bowen FW Jr, Abbasi S, et al. Relationship of prolonged pharmacologic serum levels of vitamin E to incidence of sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis in infants with birth weight 1,500 grams or less. Pediatrics 1985;75:619-38.
80. Rayman MP. Selenium and human health. Lancet 2012;379:1256-68.