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Arch. med. res ; 27(4): 449-52, 1996. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-200346

ABSTRACT

Total copper and manganese contents were measured in five rat brain regions 7 days after a unilateral striatal injection of quinolinic acid (QUIN, 240 nmol/1µl), an endogenous N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor agonist. Concentrations of both transition metals were evaluated in tissue of brain cortex, hippocampus, corpus striatum, midbrain and cerebellum of saline- and QUIN-treated rats using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Increases in copper content were observad after QUIN striatal injection in cerebellum, hippocampus, midbrain and corpus striatum (37, 55, 71 and 152 percent as compared against control values, respectively) but not in brain cortex. Manganese levels were found enhanced only in corpus striatum of QUIN-treated rats by 35 percent vs. control values, but not in all other brain regions analyzed. QUIN-induced increases in regional copper content were partially prevented in hippocampus, midbrain and striatum (17, 57, and 23 percent vs. control, respectively) by pretreatment of rats with an NMDA receptor antagonist, dizocilpine (MK-801, 10 mg/kg, i.p.), administered 60 min before QUIN microinjection. The same protective effect of fizocilpine was observed against QUIN-induced enhancement of striatal manganese content (-0.45 percent vs. control). These findings resemble those changes observed in postmortem Huntington's disease brain and suggest that alterations in regional content of copper, but not in manganese, may be a consequence of the spreading of QUIN-induced neurotoxic events into the striatal tissue to the neighboring regions of the brain, by action of QUIN on NMDA receptors


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Rats , Animals , Quinolinic Acid/administration & dosage , Cerebrum/metabolism , Copper/isolation & purification , Corpus Striatum/drug effects , Pentobarbital , Rats, Wistar/metabolism , Spectrophotometry
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Arch. invest. méd ; 21(2): 115-22, abr.-jun. 1990. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-177272

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Se estudió bioquímicamente la intoxicación experimental por talio en ratas neonatas y sus consecuencias morfológicas en el encéfalo de los animales en desarrollo. Se analizó el contenido de talio en las siguientes regiones del encéfalo: hipocampo, hipotálamo, mesencéfalo, cerebelo y corteza, un día después de la administración del tóxico encontrándose una distrubución homogénea del metal en el encéfalo. Las concentraciones del talio en las regiones citadas es de casi el doble de lo encontrado en el adulto a la misma dosis. Para el estudio histopatológico se utilizaron 20 ratas recién nacidas Cepa Wistar. Cinco quedaron como testigos las 15 restantes fueron inyectadas con una sola dosis de talio a .07 mL de una solución de .32 mg/kg de peso. Se sacrificaron 3 ratas a las 24, 48 y 72 hrs, 3 a los 7 días y 3 a los 51 días. El encéfalo y nervios ciáticos y crural se fijaron en formol al 10 por ciento por 15 días. De los fragmentos de diferentes áreas se hicieron cortes en parafina o congelación de 5 a 7 micras de grosor. Teñidos con anilinas (Masson, Gallego y H-E e impregnaciones argento-áuricas de Río-Hortega modificadas


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Rats , Animals , In Vitro Techniques , Thallium/toxicity , Wounds and Injuries
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