L-deprenil previne alterações neuroquímicas e comportamentais induzidas pela isquemia cerebral transitória

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Ano de defesa: 2004
Autor(a) principal: Maia, Flávio Damasceno
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Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
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Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/2350
Resumo: The present work shows the effects of l-deprenyl (DEP, 5 and 10 mg/kg, po) on memory, as well as on rat brain free radical formation after transient cerebral ischemia (TCI). Wistar rats were anesthetized and submitted to TCI by occlusion of both carotid arteries for 20 minutes. In another experiment, animals were submitted to surgery without ischemia (sham-operated). After surgery, ischaemic rats were treated with DEP (DEP, 5 and 10 mg/kg, po) once and daily for 5 days. One group of animals was left untreated (controls). The parameters studied were, memory acquisition and memory retention, locomotor activity and tiobarbituric acid reactive substances, as an index of lipid peroxidation. After treatment all, animals were submitted to passive avoidance test, water maze test and elevated T maze test, and 24 h later sacrificed and their hippocampi and temporal cortex dissected for evaluation of lipid peroxidation and used for catalase activity determinations. The protein concentration was measured according to the method described by Lowry (1951). In another set of experiments the animals were sacrificied forty eight hours after ischemia for caspase activity evaluation. Results show that DEP significantly reversed ischaemia-induced memory deficits. l-Deprenyl treatment significantly improved memory deficits as compared to ischemic group as measured by The elevated T maze and Water maze tests. A similar result was observed on the passive avoidance test where l-deprenyl improved late but not early memory as compared to the ischemic group. Except for an increased locomotor activity observed in the group treated with 5 mg/kg, no other alteration was detected in this behavioral test. Rats submitted to transient cerebral ischemia (and without l-deprenyl) showed an increase im MDA levels in the hippocampus and the treatment with l-deprenyl (5 and 10 mg/kg) significantly reversed this effect bringing values close to those of the sham-operated controls. A similar profile was observed with nitrite levels. Rats submitted to transient cerebral ischemia show an increase in caspase activity in the hippocampus and the treatment with l-deprenil (10 mg/kg) significantly reversed this effect bringing values close to those of the sham-operated controls. Moreover catalase activity in the hippocampi was not altered by ischemia. In conclusion, the work showed a signifant protective effect of l-deprenyl on memory deficits and lipid hyperperoxidation observed after cerebral ischemia. Possibly, the drug is acting at least in part through its antioxidant and antiapoptotic activities.