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Perinatol. reprod. hum ; 14(2): 115-23, abr.-jun. 2000. ilus
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-286336

ABSTRACT

Los radicales libres son especies químicas de gran reactividad. El ozono se caracteriza por ser un contaminante del aire, que está presente sobre todo en las grandes ciudades, a pesar de que no es propiamente un radical libre, es promotor de varios de ellos, por ejemplo, los radicales hidroxilo y peróxido. Los radicales libres también se generan como parte del metabolismo celular y son controlados por mecanismos de carácter endógeno, principalmente de tipo enzimático, resaltan por su importancia, las enzimas superóxido dismutasa, catalasa y glutatión peroxidasa. Diversos reportes señalan la participación del ozono en la producción de alteraciones en funciones neurológicas, conductuales, endocrinas y genéticas entre otras. Por otra parte, bajo condiciones controladas, el ozono ha sido utilizado con fines terapéuticos en el tratamiento de enfermedades virales. De manera que el ozono, puede verse como benéfico o dañino, dependiendo de su concentración y de la capacidad del metabolismo celular del organismo, para regular la producción de radicales libres, hasta culminar con la oxidación de moléculas orgánicas y producir CO2 y H2O.


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Air Pollutants , Free Radicals/pharmacokinetics , Ozone/chemistry , Antioxidants/pharmacokinetics , Oxidative Stress
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Arch. med. res ; 24(2): 169-76, jun. 1993. ilus, tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-177002

ABSTRACT

The present study deals with the effect of chronic toluene inhalation (30,000 - 40,000 ppm in air, 15 min/day for 30 days) that induced abnormal behavior states resembling the serotonin syndrome in rats: resting tremor, hindlimb abduction, Straub tail, head weaving and rigidity. The head weaving latencies were significantly decreased when assessed at 15 and 30 days of exposure totoluene vapors. The sequence pattern sign of serotonin syndrome were changed after 15 and 30 days of exposure, indicating possible comulative effects and/or tolerance development. There were no changes in concentrations of indolamine and catecholamine compounds in different parts of the rat brain (cerebral cortex, modbrain, brainstem and cerebellum) as influence of chronic toluene exposure. Examination of specific serotonin ((3H)-5HT) to crude synaptic membranes prepared from rat brains and subjected to chronic toluene inhalation revealed a very high increased value in apparent Kd (30.7 ñ 15) with respect to its air control (9.7 ñ 2.3) and baseline control (5.8 ñ 3.2). This difference was highly significant (p <0.02). There were no changes in apparent Bmax of specific (3H).5HT binding sites. On the other hand (3H)-NE binding of rat brain studies did not show any difference either in apparent Kd or apparent Bmasx. These results indicate that serotonin syndrome may be a consequence of changes of serotonergic mechanism, specifically a reduced affinity in specific (3H)-5HT binding sites


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Animals , Rats , Norepinephrine/biosynthesis , Serotonin/biosynthesis , Solvents/adverse effects , Toluene/pharmacokinetics
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