Early Iron Deficiency Has Brain and Behavior Effects Consistent with Dopaminergic Dysfunction
Early Iron Deficiency Has Brain and Behavior Effects Consistent with Dopaminergic Dysfunction
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DOI:
10.3945/jn.110.131169
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发表时间:
2011-04-01
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4.2
通讯作者:
Lozoff, Betsy
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作者:
Lozoff, Betsy
To honor the late John Beard's many contrbutions regarding iron and dopamine biology, this review focuses on recent human studies that test specific hypotheses about effects of early iron deficiency on dopamine system functioning. Short- and long-term alterations associated with iron deficiency in infancy can be related to major dopamine pathways (mesocortical, mesolimpic, rigrosthatal, uberohypophyseal). Children and young adults who had iron deficiency anemia in infancy show poorer,inhibitory control and executive functioning as assessed by reurocognitive tasks where pharmacologic and neuroimaging studies implicate frortal-striatal circuts and the mesocortical dopamie pathway Alterations in the mesolimbc pathway, where dopamine plays a major role in behavioral activatior and inhibition, positive affect, and inherent reward, may help explain altered social-emotional behavior n iron-deficient infants, specifically wariness and hesitance, lack of positive affect, diminished social engagement, etc. Poorer motor sequencing and bimanual coordination and lower spontaneous eye blink rate in iron-deficient anemic infants are consistent with impaired function in the grostriata pathway. Short- and long-term changes in serum proiactin point to dopamine dysfunction in the tuberohypophyseal pathway. These hypothesis-driver findings support the adverse effects of early iron deficiency or dopamine biology. Iron deficiency also has other effects, specifically on other neurotrarsmitters. myeliration, dendritogenesis, neurometabolism in hippocampus and striatum, gene and protein profiles, and associated behaviors. The persistence of poorer cognitive, motor, affective, and sensory system functioning highlights the need to prevent iron deficiercy in infancy and to find interventions that essen the long-term effects of this widespread nutrient disorder J. Nutr. 141. 740S-146S, 2011.