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1.
Toxicol Pathol ; 38(2): 213-29, 2010 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20231548

RESUMO

Cholangiofibrosis is a structural anomaly that precedes the development of cholangiocarcinoma in some rodent models. In this article, the authors examine the contribution of the epithelial and mesenchymal cells in the pathogenesis of this complex lesion. Furan was administered to rats by gavage in corn oil at 30 mg/kg b.w. (five daily doses per week) and livers were sampled between eight hr to three months. Characteristically the administration of furan caused centrilobular injury, and restoration was accomplished by proliferation of hepatocytes. Some areas of the liver were, however, more severely affected, and here, injury extended into portal and capsular areas, which resulted in a rapid proliferation of ductular cells that extended into the parenchyma accompanied by a subtype of liver fibroblasts. These ductules either differentiated into hepatocytes, with loss of the associated fibroblasts, or progressed to form tortuous ductular structures that replaced much of the parenchyma, leading to cholangiofibrosis. Although it is unclear what determines the difference in the hepatic response, a loss of micro-environmental cues that instigate hepatocyte differentiation and termination of the hepatocyte stem cell repair response may be perturbed by continual furan administration that results in an irreversible expansile lesion that may mimic the features of cholangiocarcinoma.


Assuntos
Ductos Biliares/patologia , Carcinógenos/toxicidade , Doença Hepática Induzida por Substâncias e Drogas/patologia , Furanos/toxicidade , Cirrose Hepática Experimental/patologia , Administração Oral , Animais , Ductos Biliares/efeitos dos fármacos , Carcinógenos/administração & dosagem , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Progressão da Doença , Células Epiteliais , Furanos/administração & dosagem , Hepatócitos/patologia , Imuno-Histoquímica , Fígado/efeitos dos fármacos , Fígado/patologia , Cirrose Hepática Experimental/induzido quimicamente , Masculino , Ratos , Ratos Sprague-Dawley
2.
Toxicol Pathol ; 38(2): 230-43, 2010 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20124500

RESUMO

Furan is a potent cholangiocarcinogen in rat by an as yet undefined mechanism. The risk to man remains unclear. Using a time-course stop study design, we have investigated the potential of furan to induce oxidative stress and DNA damage associated with inflammatory and regenerative responses in rat liver. Furan was administered via oral gavage (30 mg/kg b.w. 5 daily doses per week), and livers were analyzed at time points between eight hr and three months. A one-month recovery group previously treated for three months was also included. There was a marked association between CYP2E1 expression and DNA oxidation (8-oxo-dG) in areas of centrilobular hepatocyte necrosis seen after a single dose. After one-month recovery from three-month treatment, 8-oxo-dG was still observed in areas of furan-induced cholangiofibrosis. Furan-induced changes in the expression of various genes associated with oxidative stress, DNA damage, and cell cycle control were identified during treatment and recovery. We propose that furan-induced cholangiocarcinomas emerge from areas of cholangiofibrosis as a result of a combination of chronic, persistent indirect damage to DNA through oxygen radicals coupled with persistent proliferative signals, including loss of connexin 32, that act to convert this DNA damage to fixed mutations.


Assuntos
Carcinógenos/toxicidade , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Dano ao DNA , Furanos/toxicidade , Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Fígado/efeitos dos fármacos , Estresse Oxidativo , 8-Hidroxi-2'-Desoxiguanosina , Animais , Ductos Biliares/metabolismo , Ductos Biliares/patologia , Testes de Carcinogenicidade , Citocromo P-450 CYP2E1/metabolismo , Desoxiguanosina/análogos & derivados , Desoxiguanosina/metabolismo , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Hepatócitos/efeitos dos fármacos , Hepatócitos/enzimologia , Hepatócitos/metabolismo , Fígado/metabolismo , Fígado/patologia , Cirrose Hepática/induzido quimicamente , Cirrose Hepática/patologia , Masculino , Metaplasia/induzido quimicamente , Metaplasia/patologia , Ratos
3.
Brain Res Brain Res Rev ; 33(2-3): 275-307, 2000 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11011070

RESUMO

The nature of the primary symptoms of schizophrenia and our lack of knowledge of its underlying cause both contribute to the difficulty of generating convincing animal models of schizophrenia. A more recent approach to investigating the biological basis of schizophrenia has been to use information processing models of the disease to link psychotic phenomena to their neural basis. Schizophrenics are impaired in a number of experimental cognitive tasks that support this approach, including sensory gating tasks and models of selective attention such as latent inhibition (LI). LI refers to a process in which noncontingent presentation of a stimulus attenuates its ability to enter into subsequent associations, and it has received much attention because it is widely considered to relate to the cognitive abnormalities that characterise acute schizophrenia. Several claims have been made for LI having face and construct validity for schizophrenia. In this review of the pharmacological studies carried out with LI we examine its claim to predictive validity and the role of methodological considerations in drug effects. The data reviewed demonstrate that facilitation of low levels of LI is strongly related to demonstrated antipsychotic activity in man and all major antipsychotic drugs, both typical and atypical, have been shown to potentiate LI using a variety of protocols. Very few compounds without antipsychotic activity are active in this model. In contrast, disruption of LI occurs with a wide range of drugs and the relationship with psychotomimetic potential is less clear. Although reversal of disrupted LI has also been used as a model for antipsychotic acticity, mostly using amphetamine-induced disruption, insufficient studies have been carried out to evaluate its claim to predictive validity. However, like facilitation, it is sensitive to both typical and atypical antipsychotic agents. The data we have reviewed here demonstrate that facilitation of LI and, perhaps to a lesser extent, reversal of disrupted LI fulfil the criteria for predictive validity.


Assuntos
Antipsicóticos/farmacologia , Antipsicóticos/uso terapêutico , Atenção/efeitos dos fármacos , Reflexo de Sobressalto/efeitos dos fármacos , Esquizofrenia/tratamento farmacológico , Animais , Humanos
4.
Neuropharmacology ; 38(9): 1299-306, 1999 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10471083

RESUMO

NADPH-d (nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase) neurons are thought to migrate improperly during development in the brains of schizophrenic patients. This enzyme is a nitric oxide synthase (NOS). Nitric oxide (NO) is known to affect neurodevelopmental processes in the CNS. Therefore, we hypothesized that interference of NO generation during development may produce some aspects of schizophrenia symptomatology in a rat model. In these experiments, neonatal rats were challenged with a NOS inhibitor (L-nitroarginine 1-100 mg/kg s.c.) daily on post-natal days 3-5. L-Nitroarginine (L-NoArg) treated male rats developed a hypersensitivity to amphetamine in adulthood versus vehicle treated controls, whereas female rats did not. However, L-NoArg treated female rats developed a hypersensitivity to phencyclidine (PCP) at juvenile and adult ages versus vehicle treated controls, whereas male animals did not. L-NoArg treated male rats also had deficits in pre-pulse inhibition of startle whereas adult female rats did not. The results are discussed in terms of a new neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia and male/female differences inherent in this disease.


Assuntos
Modelos Animais de Doenças , Inibidores Enzimáticos/farmacologia , NADPH Desidrogenase/antagonistas & inibidores , Óxido Nítrico Sintase/antagonistas & inibidores , Nitroarginina/farmacologia , Esquizofrenia/induzido quimicamente , Animais , Animais Recém-Nascidos , Feminino , Masculino , Atividade Motora/efeitos dos fármacos , Ratos , Ratos Sprague-Dawley , Esquizofrenia/enzimologia , Caracteres Sexuais
5.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10378235

RESUMO

1. There has been considerable research in the field of schizophrenia over the past few years with emphasis on the discovery of better drugs, particularly those with 5-HT2 antagonist activity. 2. In an effort to enhance identification of such compounds and to further understand the contribution of 5-HT2 activity to the effects of antipsychotic drugs, a series of conventional, atypical and purported antipsychotic compounds were assessed as antagonists of DOI-induced behaviors in rats. 3. DOI (1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl)-2-aminopropane hydrochloride) is an hallucinogen having high affinity and selectivity as an agonist at 5-HT2A/2C receptors. Over a 30-min period after injection, DOI (0.3-10.0 mg/kg; i.p.) produced dose-related behavioral effects including head-and-body shakes, forepaw tapping and skin-jerks. Effects of the antipsychotic drugs and other compounds (30 min pretreatment; i.p.) were examined against a fixed dose of DOI (3.0 mg/kg). 4. In a dose-dependent manner, M100907 (MDL 100,907), risperidone, haloperidol, clozapine, iloperidone, olanzapine, amperozide, remoxipride, ritanserin and the neurotensin agonist NT1 (N alpha MeArg-Lys-Pro-Trp-Tle-Leu) antagonized each of the three behavioral effects of DOI. Drugs attenuating the head-and-body shakes were equally effective in blocking both forepaw tapping and skin-jerks indicating that these behaviors are mediated by similar mechanisms. The following compounds had either inconsistent or no effect on the DOI-induced behaviors: SB 200646A, citalopram, imipramine, fluoxetine, morphine, CP 99994, diazepam, ondansetron and SKF 97541. 5. The data show that antipsychotic agents, as a drug class, effectively block the effects of DOI. These actions are selective, as a series of nine non-antipsychotic and centrally-acting drugs were generally inactive in the procedure.


Assuntos
Antipsicóticos/farmacologia , Indofenol/análogos & derivados , Receptores de Serotonina/fisiologia , Agonistas do Receptor de Serotonina/farmacologia , Transtorno de Movimento Estereotipado/induzido quimicamente , Animais , Dopamina/farmacologia , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Indofenol/farmacologia , Masculino , Ratos , Ratos Sprague-Dawley , Receptores de Serotonina/efeitos dos fármacos , Esquizofrenia/tratamento farmacológico , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatologia
6.
Behav Brain Res ; 88(1): 43-9, 1997 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9401707

RESUMO

Latent inhibition (LI), a measure of the ability to learn to ignore irrelevant stimuli, is disrupted in acute schizophrenics and in rats treated with amphetamine; antipsychotics prevent amphetamine disruption of LI in rats. The 5-HT2A/C agonist 1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl)-2-aminopropane (DOI) has hallucinogenic properties in humans, and evidence suggests that 5-HT2 antagonism is an important component of atypical antipsychotic activity. Therefore, the ability of DOI to disrupt LI in rats was tested, and the ability of clinically-used and putative antipsychotics to reverse DOI disruption of LI was assessed. The method consisted of four phases. After habituation to the apparatus, thirsty rats underwent preexposure to a tone stimulus 24 h prior to two tone-shock conditioning trials. LI was demonstrated at testing (an additional 24 h later) by reduced lick suppression during tone presentation. When administered at the preexposure phase only, DOI disrupted LI. However, when administered at both preexposure and conditioning phases, DOI did not disrupt LI except at the highest dose, where lick suppression itself was also disrupted. Therefore, disruptive effects of DOI on LI are not easily dissociated from state-dependent learning effects. Additional experiments demonstrated that haloperidol, clozapine, risperidone, and the selective 5-HT2A antagonist MDL 100,907 prevented the disruptive effects of DOI on LI when administered at preexposure only. These results agree with findings that these compounds can also prevent other behavioral effects of DOI. Further experiments will be required to explore the possible involvement of state-dependent learning effects in the present results. However, if the disruptive effects of DOI on LI are due to an influence on attentional processes rather than state-dependent learning, this procedure may have potential as a method for detection of antipsychotic activity.


Assuntos
Anfetaminas/farmacologia , Condicionamento Operante/efeitos dos fármacos , Reforço Psicológico , Agonistas do Receptor de Serotonina/farmacologia , Animais , Antipsicóticos/farmacologia , Clozapina/farmacologia , Fluorbenzenos/farmacologia , Haloperidol/farmacologia , Masculino , Piperidinas/farmacologia , Ratos , Ratos Sprague-Dawley , Reflexo de Sobressalto/efeitos dos fármacos , Risperidona/farmacologia , Antagonistas da Serotonina/farmacologia
7.
Peptides ; 18(8): 1223-7, 1997.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9396065

RESUMO

Several lines of evidence have shown that neurotensin can modulate dopamine neurotransmission. It has been suggested that neurotensin has potential antipsychotic activity because it reduces dopaminergic activity preferentially in the nucleus accumbens. In the present study, the effects of neurotensin and NT1 (N alpha Me-Arg-Lys-Pro-Trp-TIe-Leu or Eisai hexapeptide), a metabolically stable and systemically active neurotensin agonist, were examined in several models of antipsychotic activity and side effect liability in mice; analgesic and hypothermic effects of both compounds also were determined. Up to high doses, neurotensin (5.0 and 10.0 micrograms, i.c.v.) and NT1 (10.0 and 20.0 mg/kg, i.p.) did not produce catalepsy. A much lower dose of neurotensin (0.03 microgram, i.c.v.) significantly reduced amphetamine- and phencyclidine-stimulated locomotor activity; NT1 also diminished amphetamine- and phencyclidine-stimulated locomotion with ED50 values of 0.3 and 0.4 mg/kg, i.p., respectively. Neurotensin (0.01-0.3 microgram, i.c.v.) and NT1 (0.1-1.0 mg/kg, s.c.) also produced dose-dependent analgesia in the paw pressure test and decreased body temperature; these effects were insensitive to pretreatment with naloxone (10.0 mg/kg, i.p.). Together, the results support the hypothesis that neurotensin agonists have antipsychotic and analgesic activity. Moreover, the data suggest that such compounds may not produce extrapyramidal side effects.


Assuntos
Antipsicóticos/farmacologia , Neurotensina/farmacologia , Oligopeptídeos/farmacologia , Receptores de Neurotensina/agonistas , Analgésicos/farmacologia , Animais , Temperatura Corporal/efeitos dos fármacos , Catalepsia/fisiopatologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Atividade Motora/efeitos dos fármacos , Medição da Dor/efeitos dos fármacos
8.
Am J Physiol ; 271(4 Pt 2): H1547-54, 1996 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8897951

RESUMO

To assess the effects of long-term pressure overload on sympathetic presynaptic components in the left ventricle, young adult male rats were subjected to surgical constriction of the suprarenal abdominal aorta. At 4 and 8 wk postsurgery, but not at 1 wk, left ventricular sympathetic activity, measured by the net fractional norepinephrine (NE) decrease after alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine methyl ester administration, was elevated in the aortic-banded rats. However, left ventricular NE was reduced only at 8 wk. Scatchard analysis of saturation binding of [3H]nisoxetine, a specific ligand for NE uptake sites, determined that left ventricular NE transporter sites were also reduced at 8 wk, suggesting a relationship between a reduced number of uptake sites and loss of NE stores. In contrast, aortic constriction did not reduce neuropeptide Y (NPY), tyrosine hydroxylase, dopamine beta-hydroxylase, nervegrowth factor, and low-affinity nerve growth factor receptors at any time point. Thus long-term pressure overload can cause a selective reduction in ventricular NE stores without a reduction in NPY, a colocalized sympathetic neurotransmitter.


Assuntos
Hipertensão/fisiopatologia , Terminações Pré-Sinápticas/fisiologia , Sistema Nervoso Simpático/fisiopatologia , Simportadores , Função Ventricular Esquerda , Animais , Aorta Abdominal , Sítios de Ligação , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Fluoxetina/análogos & derivados , Fluoxetina/metabolismo , Ligadura , Masculino , Metiltirosinas/farmacologia , Miocárdio/metabolismo , Neuropeptídeo Y/metabolismo , Norepinefrina/metabolismo , Proteínas da Membrana Plasmática de Transporte de Norepinefrina , Ratos , Ratos Sprague-Dawley , Fatores de Tempo
9.
Brain Res ; 710(1-2): 112-20, 1996 Feb 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8963649

RESUMO

This study examined the expression of the c-Fos protein in the rabbit's central nervous system to determine which areas are activated by the presentation of a corneal airpuff. Previous work has shown that pairing a corneal airpuff unconditioned stimulus (US) with a tone conditioned stimulus (CS) produces reliable heart rate (HR) conditioning. In this study restrained awake rabbits received 100 corneal airpuffs. Brains were then processed immunohistochemically for the c-Fos protein. In animals that received the airpuff the ventral portion of the ipsilateral spinal trigeminal subnucleus caudalis (SVc) and interpolaris (SVi), and the dorsal raphe nucleus exhibited a greater number of c-Fos labeled cells compared to control animals. Another group of animals was given microinjections of WGA-HRP in the medial nucleus of the medial geniculate (mMG) to determine if this critical auditory area of the HR conditioning circuitry receives projections from SVc and SVi. These injections produced retrograde labeling in the same areas of SVc and SVi activated by the airpuff. Thus, a corneal airpuff activates neurons in SVc and SVi which could then activate neurons in mMG. This provides additional evidence that CS and US information converge in mMG.


Assuntos
Córnea/fisiologia , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-fos/metabolismo , Núcleo Espinal do Trigêmeo/metabolismo , Ar , Animais , Feminino , Imuno-Histoquímica , Masculino , Estimulação Física , Coelhos , Conjugado Aglutinina do Germe de Trigo-Peroxidase do Rábano Silvestre
10.
Behav Pharmacol ; 7(1): 42-48, 1996 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11224392

RESUMO

In the present study we have examined the effect of clozapine, an atypical antipsychotic drug, on latent inhibition (LI) using the conditioned emotional response (CER) procedure. In this procedure, ten pre-exposures to the to-be-conditioned stimulus result in weak or no LI whereas 30 pre-exposures produce robust LI. Three different experimental protocols were used to study the effects of clozapine: facilitation of LI in animals subjected to ten pre-exposures to the to-be-conditioned stimulus; antagonism of the disruptive effect of amphetamine (1mg/kg, s.c.) on LI in animals receiving 30 pre-exposures; antagonism of the disruptive effect of nicotine (0.6mg/kg, s.c.) on LI in animals receiving 30 pre-exposures. High doses of clozapine (3 and 10mg/kg, s.c.) disrupted the CER in non pre-exposed animals. Despite this, clozapine significantly facilitated the development of LI at 1 and 10mg/kg and significantly attenuated the disruptive effects of nicotine at 0.3 and 1mg/kg and of amphetamine at 2 and 5mg/kg. These results demonstrate that clozapine is active in the LI model and further support the utility of this model in the study of mechanisms of action of antipsychotic drugs.

11.
Brain Res ; 664(1-2): 207-10, 1994 Nov 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-7895029

RESUMO

Stress consistently has been found to activate peripheral and central catecholamine systems. Dopamine (DA) turnover in the prefrontal cortex is especially sensitive to stress produced by relatively mild footshock, conditioned fear, or exposure to a novel cage. Because lesions of the central nucleus of the amygdala block the effects of both stress and fear in many experimental paradigms, the present study evaluated whether such lesions would block stress-induced increases in prefrontal dopamine turnover using either mild footshock or novelty as stressors. In Experiment 1 electrolytic lesions of the central nucleus of the amygdala attenuated the increase in the dopamine metabolite homovanillic acid (HVA) in the prefrontal cortex evaluated in post-mortem tissue normally produced by footshock. In Experiment 2 similar lesions attenuated the increase in dopamine turnover in the prefrontal cortex using a different stressor, novelty, and a different measure of dopamine turnover, DOPAC/DA ratios. These data provide further evidence for the critical role of the amygdala in stress.


Assuntos
Tonsila do Cerebelo/fisiologia , Dopamina/metabolismo , Córtex Pré-Frontal/metabolismo , Estresse Fisiológico/metabolismo , Ácido 3,4-Di-Hidroxifenilacético/metabolismo , Animais , Ácido Homovanílico/metabolismo , Masculino , Ratos , Ratos Sprague-Dawley
12.
J Neurosci ; 12(12): 4624-33, 1992 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1464761

RESUMO

The present study is part of an ongoing series of experiments aimed at delineation of the neural pathways that mediate fear-potentiated startle, a model of conditioned fear in which the acoustic startle reflex is enhanced when elicited in the presence of a light previously paired with shock. A number of cortical areas that might be involved in relaying information about the visual conditioned stimulus (the light) in fear-potentiated startle were investigated. One hundred thirty-five rats were given 10 light-shock pairings on each of 2 consecutive days, and 1-2 d later electrolytic or aspiration lesions in various cortical areas were performed. One week later, the magnitude of fear-potentiated startle was measured. Complete removal of the visual cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, insular cortex, or posterior perirhinal cortex had no significant effect on the magnitude of fear-potentiated startle. Lesions of the frontal cortex attenuated fear-potentiated startle by approximately 50%. However, lesions of the anterior perirhinal cortex completely eliminated fear-potentiated startle. The effective lesions included parts of the cortex both dorsal and ventral to the rhinal sulcus and extended from approximately 1.8 to 3.8 mm posterior to bregma. Lesions slightly more posterior (2.3-4.8 mm posterior to bregma) or lesions that included only the perirhinal cortex dorsal to the rhinal sulcus had no effect. The region of the perirhinal cortex in which lesions blocked fear-potentiated startle projects to the amygdala, and thus may be part of the pathway that relays the visual conditioned stimulus information to the amygdala, a structure that is also critical for fear-potentiated startle. In addition, the present findings are in agreement with numerous studies in primates suggesting that the perirhinal cortex may play a more general role in memory.


Assuntos
Córtex Cerebral/fisiologia , Medo , Lobo Frontal/fisiologia , Reflexo de Sobressalto , Córtex Visual/fisiologia , Estimulação Acústica , Análise de Variância , Animais , Condicionamento Psicológico , Eletrochoque , Masculino , Especificidade de Órgãos , Estimulação Luminosa , Ratos , Ratos Sprague-Dawley
13.
Nurs Res ; 41(3): 178-83, 1992.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1584662

RESUMO

Thirty-three lesbians ranging in age from 18-68 participated as respondents in this qualitative, theory-generating study. Data were obtained through a written demographic questionnaire and in-depth taped interviews. Findings revealed a two-phase basic social process (BSP) identified as personal risking that is used by lesbians to secure their physical and/or psychological safety within the health care system. In the anticipatory phase, the risk of self-disclosure is calculated using both imaginative and cognitive strategies to determine a disclosure stance. In the interactional phase, scanning and monitoring enable the lesbian client to reevaluate the stance assumed. The data confirm that lesbians are uncomfortable in many health care situations and suggest provider responses to improve their comfort and the level of health care they receive.


Assuntos
Identidade de Gênero , Pessoal de Saúde/psicologia , Homossexualidade/psicologia , Relações Profissional-Paciente , Assunção de Riscos , Autorrevelação , Adaptação Psicológica , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Feminino , Humanos , Entrevista Psicológica , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Aceitação pelo Paciente de Cuidados de Saúde , São Francisco , Inquéritos e Questionários
14.
Behav Neurosci ; 105(6): 817-25, 1991 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1777104

RESUMO

Previous work has shown that lesions of the central nucleus of the amygdala block fear-potentiated acoustic startle and that electrical simulation of the central nucleus enhances acoustic startle in rats. In the present study, the anterograde tracer Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin was used to identify and delineate the course of a direct projection from the central nucleus of the amygdala to the nucleus reticularis pontis caudalis, a nucleus in the acoustic startle circuit. Experiments using the retrograde tracer Fluoro-Gold confirmed this and indicated that the rostral part of the medial subdivision of the central nucleus of the amygdala contains the cells that project to the startle circuit. With this information, lesion studies (see companion article Hitchcock & Davis, 1991) may be used to determine whether this projection plays a role in fear-potentiated startle.


Assuntos
Tonsila do Cerebelo/anatomia & histologia , Tonsila do Cerebelo/fisiologia , Vias Auditivas/anatomia & histologia , Vias Auditivas/fisiologia , Percepção Auditiva/fisiologia , Tronco Encefálico/anatomia & histologia , Tronco Encefálico/fisiologia , Medo/fisiologia , Reflexo de Sobressalto/fisiologia , Animais , Nível de Alerta/fisiologia , Mapeamento Encefálico , Dominância Cerebral/fisiologia , Masculino , Neurônios/fisiologia , Neurônios/ultraestrutura , Núcleo Olivar/anatomia & histologia , Núcleo Olivar/fisiologia , Ponte/anatomia & histologia , Ponte/fisiologia , Ratos , Ratos Endogâmicos , Formação Reticular/anatomia & histologia , Formação Reticular/fisiologia
15.
Behav Neurosci ; 105(6): 826-42, 1991 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1663757

RESUMO

Fear-potentiated startle in the rat is a measure of conditioned fear that is blocked by lesions of the central nucleus of the amygdala. In a companion study, Rosen, Hitchcock, Sananes, Miserendino, and Davis (1991) demonstrated a direct anatomical projection from the central nucleus to the brainstem startle reflex circuit. In the present study, fear-potentiated startle was blocked by lesions that interrupted this pathway at 3 different levels or by a crossed lesion that interrupted the pathway at its source on one side and at a more caudal level on the other side. Although synaptic relays have not been ruled out entirely, the data suggest that the direct projection from the central nucleus of the amygdala to the startle circuit mediates the expression of fear-potentiated startle. These findings are consistent with the literature indicating that efferent projections from the central nucleus to various brainstem structures are involved in the expression of several conditioned fear responses.


Assuntos
Tonsila do Cerebelo/fisiologia , Tronco Encefálico/fisiologia , Condicionamento Clássico/fisiologia , Medo/fisiologia , Plasticidade Neuronal/fisiologia , Reflexo de Sobressalto/fisiologia , Animais , Aprendizagem por Associação/fisiologia , Mapeamento Encefálico , Vias Eferentes/fisiologia , Masculino , Bulbo/fisiologia , Motivação , Ratos , Ratos Endogâmicos , Substância Inominada/fisiologia , Substância Negra/fisiologia , Transmissão Sináptica/fisiologia , Tegmento Mesencefálico/fisiologia
16.
Behav Neurosci ; 103(3): 509-18, 1989 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2544201

RESUMO

Bilateral electrolytic lesions of the central, but not the lateral, nucleus of the amgydala blocked shock sensitization of startle (the increase in startle produced by presentation of ten 0.6-mA footshocks in rapid succession). Lesions of the central nucleus also decreased reactivity to shock (jumping and flinching) during shock presentation. However, this decrease in reactivity cannot account for the blockade of shock sensitization, because when a higher shock intensity (1.0 mA) was used, producing equivalent reactivity to that of controls at 0.6 mA, central nucleus lesions still blocked shock sensitization. Moreover, lesions of the caudal part of the ventral amygdalofugal pathway, which carries central nucleus efferents to the startle reflex pathway, also blocked shock sensitization. It is hypothesized that shock activates the central nucleus of the amygdala, which increases startle through modulation of the startle pathway. Activation of the amygdala by shock may be the unconditioned response relevant for fear conditioning.


Assuntos
Tonsila do Cerebelo/fisiologia , Nível de Alerta/fisiologia , Atenção/fisiologia , Tronco Encefálico/fisiologia , Reflexo de Sobressalto/fisiologia , Estimulação Acústica , Animais , Mapeamento Encefálico , Condicionamento Clássico/fisiologia , Vias Eferentes/fisiologia , Eletrochoque , Medo/fisiologia , Masculino , Ratos , Ratos Endogâmicos , Retenção Psicológica/fisiologia , Transmissão Sináptica
17.
J Med Chem ; 32(3): 601-4, 1989 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2918506

RESUMO

New 1 beta-methylcarbapenems having various (substituted) quaternary heterocyclic alkythio groups at the C-2 position were synthesized and tested for antibacterial activity and renal dipeptidase susceptibility. Compounds having the 1 beta-methyl substituent were found to possess an increased stability to the enzyme. In addition, combination of the 1 beta-methyl substituent and the C-2 quaternary heterocyclic alkylthio side chain generated compounds with excellent antipseudomonal activity and improved stability toward hydrolysis by renal dipeptidase.


Assuntos
Tienamicinas/síntese química , Fenômenos Químicos , Química , Dipeptidases/metabolismo , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/efeitos dos fármacos , Bactérias Gram-Positivas/efeitos dos fármacos , Hidrólise , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Relação Estrutura-Atividade , Tienamicinas/metabolismo , Tienamicinas/farmacologia
18.
Physiol Behav ; 39(3): 403-8, 1987.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-3575483

RESUMO

The effect of lesions of the amygdala on fear-potentiated startle using an auditory conditioned stimulus (CS) was evaluated, after replicating and extending previous findings that a tone is an effective CS for fear-potentiated startle. Rats received 10 tone-shock pairings on 2 successive days. At 24-48 hr following training, they received bilateral electrolytic lesions of the central nucleus of the amygdala or sham operations, and then were tested for fear-potentiated startle 4-5 days later. Lesions of the amygdala impaired fear-potentiated startle using an auditory CS, consistent with the previous findings using a visual CS. These data indicate that the effect of lesions of the amygdala on fear-potentiated startle is not specific to one sensory modality, consistent with the hypotheses that the amygdala is involved in processing multimodal information related to conditioned fear, or is part of an output pathway for motor and autonomic expressions of conditioned fear.


Assuntos
Tonsila do Cerebelo/fisiologia , Condicionamento Psicológico , Medo/fisiologia , Reflexo de Sobressalto/fisiologia , Estimulação Acústica , Tonsila do Cerebelo/patologia , Animais , Masculino , Ratos , Ratos Endogâmicos
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