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Guedes RCA, Monteiro JS, de Biase S, de Melo APR, Borba JMC, Diniz CWP, de Carvalho Noya AGAF, Prieto SCG. Effects of early monocular enucleation on cortical spreading depression in well-nourished and malnourished adult rats. Exp Brain Res 2024; 242:2241-2247. [PMID: 39034328 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-024-06893-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 07/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
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Sensory development is a complex process that can influence physiological and pathological factors. In laterally-eyed mammals, monocular enucleation (ME) during development and the subsequent lack of external sensory stimuli can result in permanent morphological and physiological changes. Malnutrition, especially in early life, also can cause permanent morphofunctional changes due to inadequate nutrient intake in both hemispheres. This study investigated the effects of early (postnatal day 7) ME and malnutrition during the suckling period on cortical excitability in adulthood (110-140 days of life). For this, we compared the speed propagation of cortical spreading depression in the occipital and parietal cortex of malnourished and well-nourished adult rats, previously suckled small-sized litters with three pups (L3/dam) medium-sized litters with six pups (L6/dam), and large-sized litters with twelve pups (L12/dam). The CSD velocity was augmented by the ME in the contralateral side of the removed eye in the parietal and occipital cortex. These findings suggest that visual sensory input deprivation is associated with permanent functional changes in the visual pathways, which can alter cortical excitability and lead to modifications in CSD propagation.
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- Rubem Carlos Araujo Guedes
- Center of Health Sciences, Nutrition department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, 50670901, Brazil
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- Center of Health Sciences, Nutrition department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, 50670901, Brazil
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- Center of Health Sciences, Nutrition department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, 50670901, Brazil
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- Center of Health Sciences, Nutrition department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, 50670901, Brazil
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Soares GDSF, Lima CB, Cavalcanti LC, Villacampa N, Castellano B, Guedes RCA. Brain effects of the lectin from Canavalia ensiformis in adult rats previously suckled in favorable and unfavorable conditions: A spreading depression and microglia immunolabeling study. Nutr Neurosci 2014; 18:307-15. [PMID: 24819023 DOI: 10.1179/1476830514y.0000000128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate in adult rats, previously suckled under favorable and unfavorable conditions, the brain electrophysiological and microglial effects of the treatment early in life with the lectin (ConA) from Canavalia ensiformis. METHODS Male Wistar newborn rats (n = 89) were suckled under favorable or unfavorable conditions, represented by litters with 6-7 pups or 12-14 pups (groups N6 and N12, respectively). From postnatal days 5-24, they were treated intraperitoneally with 1 or 10 mg/kg ConA (groups L1 and L10, respectively), or with saline solution (group Sal), or no treatment (group Naïve). At 90-120 days of age, cortical spreading depression (CSD) was recorded at two parietal points for 4 hours, and CSD parameters (velocity of propagation and amplitude and duration of the DC slow potential change) were measured. Fixative-perfused brain sections were reacted with anti-Iba1 antibodies to quantify immunolabeled microglia. RESULTS Compared with the control groups, ConA-treated animals dose-dependently presented with reduced CSD propagation velocities and increased amplitude and duration of the CSD slow potential change. Microglia Iba-1 immunoreactivity was lower in both nutritional groups treated with ConA, in comparison with the control groups. The CSD hemisphere presented with higher immunoreactivity compared with the CSD-free hemisphere. DISCUSSION Attenuation in CSD propagation and microglia reaction was associated in adulthood with ConA treatment during brain development, indicating that the lectin can affect the electrophysiological and microglial development, and suggesting long-lasting protective action of the lectin on the rat brain, which is not impeded by the unfavorable suckling condition.
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Borba JMC, Rocha-de-Melo AP, dos Santos ÂA, Andrade da Costa BLDS, da Silva RP, Passos PP, Guedes RCA. Essential fatty acid deficiency reduces cortical spreading depression propagation in rats: a two-generation study. Nutr Neurosci 2013; 13:144-50. [DOI: 10.1179/147683010x12611460763887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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da Silva Germano PCP, Silva DDLE, Soares GDSF, dos Santos ÂA, Guedes RCA. Hypercaloric high-lipid diet and brain development: Effects on cortical spreading depression in adult rats. Nutr Neurosci 2013; 16:275-81. [DOI: 10.1179/1476830513y.0000000056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Rocha-de-Melo AP, Cavalcanti JDB, Barros AS, Guedes RCA. Manipulation of rat litter size during suckling influences cortical spreading depression after weaning and at adulthood. Nutr Neurosci 2013; 9:155-60. [PMID: 17176638 DOI: 10.1080/10284150600903602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Nutritional conditions early in life constitute one environmental factor that can influence brain electrophysiological features. Cortical spreading depression (SD) is a brain electrophysiological phenomenon that can be altered by the early nutritional status of organism. SD-velocity changes were presently studied in young (30-40 days old) and adult (90-120 days) rats suckled in litters formed by 3, 6, or 12 pups (called respectively small (S), medium (M) and large (L) litters). Body weights and SD propagation velocities in the 3 groups varied, respectively in an inverse and direct way, in relation to the litter sizes. The present investigation provides the first systematic description of the effectiveness of favorable and unfavorable lactation conditions (respectively suckling in S and L litters) in altering cortical SD-propagation. The results confirm previous evidence in favor of permanent or at least long-lasting SD-changes associated to the prevailing nutritional status during the period of fast brain development.
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- Ana Paula Rocha-de-Melo
- Departamento de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR-50670-901 Recife, PE, Brazil
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Maia L, Amancio-dos-Santos A, Duda-de-Oliveira D, Angelim M, Germano P, Santos S, Guedes R. L-Arginine administration during rat brain development facilitates spreading depression propagation: evidence for a dose- and nutrition-dependent effect. Nutr Neurosci 2013; 12:73-80. [DOI: 10.1179/147683009x423229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Viana MT, Perez MC, Ribas VR, Martins GDF, de Castro CMMB. Leukocyte, red blood cell and morphological adaptation to moderate physical training in rats undernourished in the neonatal period. Rev Bras Hematol Hemoter 2012; 34:285-91. [PMID: 23049442 PMCID: PMC3460411 DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20120073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2012] [Accepted: 05/21/2012] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Objective To analyze the impact of moderate physical exercise on the total and differential leukocyte counts and red blood cell count of 36 sixty-day-old adult male Wistar rats subjected to early malnourishment. Methods The rats were divided in nourished (N - casein 17%) and malnourished groups (M - casein 8%) and thesegroups were then subdivided in trained (T) untrained (U) creating four groups NT, NU, MT and MU. The NT and MTgroups were submitted to moderate physical exercise using a treadmill (60 min/day, 5 days/week for 8 weeks). Onthe 1st day, before the training started T0 and 24 hours after the last training day of the week (T1 until T8), a 1 mLaliquot of blood was collected from the animals' tails for analysis. The total leukocyte count was evaluated in a cellcounter with an electronic microscope. The cyanmethemoglobin technique was used to measure the hemoglobin level. The hematocrit values were determined as a percentage using the micro-hematocrit technique with a microcapillaryreader and a cell counter was used to determine the red blood cell count. The t-test was used for statistical analysis and a p-value < 0.05 was considered significant. Data are expressed as means ± standard deviation. Results There was a significant difference in the total leukocyte count between the NT (9.1 ± 0.1) and MT groups (8.0 ± 0.1) from T1 and in neutrophils between the NT (22.1 ± 0.6) and MT groups (24.6 ± 1.8) from T7 (p < 0.05). There was no statistical significance in the hemoglobin, hematocrit and red blood cell count from T1. Conclusions According to the results of this study, moderate physical exercise seems to have induced physiologic adaptation in adult rats from T1.
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Batista-de-Oliveira M, Monte-Silva-Machado K, Paiva A, Lima H, Fregni F, Guedes R. Favorable and unfavorable lactation modulates the effects of electrical stimulation on brain excitability: A spreading depression study in adult rats. Life Sci 2012; 91:306-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2012.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2012] [Revised: 06/06/2012] [Accepted: 07/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Maia CDSF, Ferreira VMM, Kahwage RL, do Amaral MN, Serra RB, Noro dos Santos S, do Nascimento JLM, Rodrigues LG, Trévia N, Diniz CWP. Adult brain nitrergic activity after concomitant prenatal exposure to ethanol and methyl mercury. Acta Histochem 2010; 112:583-91. [PMID: 19748654 DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2009.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2009] [Revised: 06/08/2009] [Accepted: 06/11/2009] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Pregnant rats were exposed to ethanol (EtOH) and/or methyl mercury (MeHg) during fetal brain development. Nitrergic activity was quantified by densitometric measurement of formazan deposits in the hippocampus, cerebellum and striatum of two-month-old offspring following histochemical assay for NADPH-diaphorase (NADPH-d) activity. Compared to control subjects, an increase in nitrergic activity was found in the molecular layer of dentate gyrus and in the lacunosum molecular and stratum radiatum of CA1 (cornus amoni 1) in the EtOH+MeHg group, whereas a single administration of EtOH increased the activity in all striatal segments. The cerebellum seems to be less sensitive at this time-point to intoxication, and presented an increase only at the molecular layer of EtOH-exposed animals when compared to the MeHg and EtOH+MeHg groups (ANOVA, one-way followed by Tukey's test, p<0.05 or p<0.01). Taken together, results suggest that developmental exposure to EtOH and MeHg, singularly or in combination, alters nitrergic activity in adult rat in different ways depending on the region and layer of the central nervous system (CNS), and that these alterations might be related to different local metabolic properties.
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Frazão MF, Silva de Seixas Maia LM, Guedes RCA. Early malnutrition, but not age, modulates in the rat the l-Arginine facilitating effect on cortical spreading depression. Neurosci Lett 2008; 447:26-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.09.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2008] [Revised: 09/25/2008] [Accepted: 09/25/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Viana LC, Torres JB, Farias JA, Kawhage R, Lins N, Passos A, Quintairos A, Trévia N, Guedes RCA, Diniz CWP. Exercise and food ad libitum reduce the impact of early in life nutritional inbalances on nitrergic activity of hippocampus and striatum. Nutr Neurosci 2008; 10:215-28. [PMID: 18284030 DOI: 10.1080/10284150701722158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Nutritional imbalances were produced by varying litter size pups per dam: 3 (small), 6 (medium), and 12 (large). On the 21st day, 4 subjects of each litter, were sacrificed and the remaining were grouped, 2 per cage, with or without running wheels, with food and water ad libitum. Adult subjects were tested in water maze, their brains processed for NADPH-diaphorase histochemistry and quantified by densitometry. No differences were detected in water maze. At 21st day, S and L compared with M presented reduced NADPH-d in the stratum molecular of dentate gyrus (DG), stratum lacunosum of CA1 and in all CA3 layers but not in the striatum. On the 58th day, actvity remained low in S and L in CA3 and striatum and L in CA1 and DG. Voluntary exercise increased NADPH-d in DG, CA1, CA3, and striatum in S, and in the stratum lacunosum of CA1 and CA3 in L.
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- Lane Coelho Viana
- Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, CEP 66075900 Belém, PA, Brazil
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Dimitsantos E, Escorihuela RM, Fuentes S, Armario A, Nadal R. Litter size affects emotionality in adult male rats. Physiol Behav 2007; 92:708-16. [PMID: 17599368 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.05.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2006] [Revised: 03/15/2007] [Accepted: 05/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The role of natural variations in pre-weaning litter size in rodent adult emotionality and the importance of maternal care as a possible mediating factor have been frequently neglected. To address these issues, maternal behaviour of Sprague-Dawley dams differing in natural number of pups was studied for the first seven postnatal days. Later, adult behaviour of representative male offspring was studied in the elevated plus-maze, the circular corridor, the dark-light box and the forced swimming test. Three groups of offspring were selected in function of the number of littermates: L<10 group (less than 10 pups per dam), L10-15 (between 10 and 15 pups per dam) and L>15 group (more than 15 pups per dam). L<10 litters showed a reduced habituation of activity across time in a circular corridor and as compared to L>15 litters, L<10 litters showed a lower activity during the first 5 min of exposure to the circular corridor. L<10 litters had also higher signs of anxiety in the elevated plus-maze, in comparison to the other two groups. In addition, L<10 litters showed in the forced swimming test reduced struggling and more mild swimming behavior than the other two groups. These abnormalities in L<10 litters are not explained by maternal behavior since they received individually more maternal care than L>15, as assessed by total licking-grooming observed during the whole observation period divided by number of pups. Although previous data from several laboratories have demonstrated that low maternal care is associated with heightened emotionality at adulthood, the present results suggest an important contribution of spontaneous litter size to adult emotional behavior that cannot be explained by concomitant changes in maternal care.
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- E Dimitsantos
- Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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dos Santos AA, Pinheiro PCF, de Lima DSC, Ozias MG, de Oliveira MB, Guimarães NX, Guedes RCA. Fluoxetine inhibits cortical spreading depression in weaned and adult rats suckled under favorable and unfavorable lactation conditions. Exp Neurol 2006; 200:275-82. [PMID: 16616920 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2006] [Revised: 02/09/2006] [Accepted: 02/13/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Wistar rats (n = 58) were injected subcutaneously during the lactation period with fluoxetine (5, 10, 20 or 40 mg/kg/day) and cortical spreading depression (SD) was recorded immediately after weaning (25-30 days of life). An additional group (10 mg/kg; n = 8) was SD-recorded at 60-70 days. As compared to the saline-injected (n = 24) or "ingenuous" (n = 16) controls, fluoxetine dose-dependently reduced (P < 0.05) SD-velocities in the young rats by 4, 6, 16 and 15%, respectively, and in adult rats by 13%. In another experiment (26 adult rats), topical cortical application of fluoxetine (5 and 10 mg/ml solutions over the intact dura-mater for 10 min; n = 12 and 14, respectively) dose-dependently reduced SD-velocity (7.6% and 43.3% maximal reductions; P < 0.05). SD-propagation was blocked in 4 out of the 14 W-rats topically treated with the highest fluoxetine concentration (10 mg/ml). This topical fluoxetine effect was reverted after flushing the treated region with saline. In additional, 58 early-malnourished rats, fluoxetine applied during the suckling period (10 mg/kg/day, s.c.) and topically (10 mg/ml) also reduced (P < 0.05) SD-velocities by 18 and 22% for the systemic treatment (young and adult animals, respectively) and by 22.4% for the topical one. The present fluoxetine action supports the hypothesis of an antagonistic serotoninergic influence on SD, as previously suggested in experiments using other serotoninergic drugs. Data also suggest that early malnutrition does not greatly affect fluoxetine effects on SD.
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Torres JB, Assunção J, Farias JA, Kahwage R, Lins N, Passos A, Quintairos A, Trévia N, Diniz CWP. NADPH-diaphorase histochemical changes in the hippocampus, cerebellum and striatum are correlated with different modalities of exercise and watermaze performances. Exp Brain Res 2006; 175:292-304. [PMID: 16763833 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0549-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2006] [Accepted: 05/05/2006] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Nitric oxide is involved in memory and motor learning. We investigated possible influences of exercise on spatial memory and NADPH-diaphorase (NADPH-d) histochemical activity in the hippocampus, striatum and cerebellum. Fifteen albino Swiss mice between the 22nd and 55th post-natal days were exercised in the following modalities: voluntary (V), acrobatic (A), acrobatic/voluntary (AV) and forced (F) and compared to inactive group (I). After the exercise period, all subjects were tested in the water maze for 3 days. Animal brains were processed for NADPH-d histochemistry. Densitometry of the neuropil of the hippocampus, striatum and cerebellum and morphometric analysis of NADPHd+ type I neurons of the striatum were done. Exercise groups presented higher levels of NADPH-d activity in the molecular and polymorphic layers of dentate gyrus and lacunosum molecular layer of CA1. The A group presented higher NADPH-d activity in the cerebellar granular layer than all other groups. Branching points and dendritic segment densities of NADPH-d type I neurons were higher in V, A and AV than in F and I groups. Exercise groups revealed best performances on water maze tests. Thus, different modalities of exercise increases in different proportions for the nitrergic activity in the hippocampus, striatum and cerebellum, and these changes seem to be beneficial to spatial memory.
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Maia LMSS, Frazão MF, Souza TKM, Silva MB, Rocha-de-Melo AP, Picanço-Diniz CW, Amâncio-dos-Santos A, Guedes RCA. l-arginine treatment early in life influences NADPH-diaphorase neurons in visual cortex of normal and early-malnourished adult rats. Brain Res 2006; 1072:19-25. [PMID: 16426587 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.12.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2005] [Revised: 11/25/2005] [Accepted: 12/01/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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This study investigated the effects of repeated l-arginine administration during lactation, combined with different suckling conditions, on morphometric parameters of primary visual cortex NADPH-diaphorase-positive neurons. Wistar rat pups reared in "normal-size litters" or "large litters" (N- and L-conditions; litters formed by 6 and 12 pups, respectively) received, from postnatal day 7 to 28, either arginine (300 mg/kg/day, per gavage) or distilled water (control). At 90-120 days of life, they were perfused with saline + formaldehyde, and their brains were processed for histochemical reaction to reveal NADPH-diaphorase-positive neurons (malic enzyme indirect method). Compared to the normal-size litters, L-rats had lower body weights (P < 0.05), confirming the effectiveness of the L-condition in affecting pup development. Concerning NADPH-d histochemistry, arginine treatment was associated with increased (P < 0.05) density of dendrite varicosities and of dendrite branching frequency, suggesting a plastic response of the developing brain to that treatment, even in previously malnourished rats. No difference was seen, however, in dendrite orientation, total number of neurons, soma area and perimeter, as well as dendrite bifurcation points, fractal dimension, and area and volume of dendrite field, suggesting that NADPH-d cells are resistant to arginine and nutritional changes, regarding these features. Data are considered of interest for studies of synaptic plasticity during neural development and its relationships to aggressive agents like malnutrition.
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- Luciana M S S Maia
- Department of Nutrition, Federal University of Pernambuco State, 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil
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