Efeitos da administração de ácido fólico sobre parâmetros comportamentais, bioquímicos e morfológicos em ratos submetidos à hipóxia-isquemia encefálica neonatal

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2012

RESUMO

Perinatal hypoxic-ischemic (HI) is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in infants and young children. Folic acid is a water soluble vitamin that can be obtained through diet and has been related to the antioxidant effect, protecting ischemic events and Alzheimer s disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the folic acid treatment over the behavioral, biochemical and morphologic alterations in animals submitted to neonatal HI model. Four groups of seven days-old Wistar rats, of both sexes, were used in the experiments: 1) control group treated with saline 0.9% (CT-S); 2) control group treated with folic acid (CT-FA); 3) HI group treated with saline 0.9% (HI-S); 4) HI group treated with folic acid (HI-FA). Folic acid was intraperitoneal administrated (0.011¿mol/g of body weight) once before HI procedure and injections were repeated daily until the 30th or 40th postnatal day. Results were obtained from two experiments. In the first, it was investigated the effects of the FA treatment on motor performance, aversive memory and enzymatic Na+,K+-ATPase activity. Rats submitted to HI demonstrated an ansiogenic effect in the open field task, impairment in the aversive memory during avoidance test and reduction in the Na+,K+-ATPase activity. Nevertheless, when treated with folic acid, all symptoms were reverted, as observed in the animal group HI treated with folic acid. The second experiment investigated the influence of the folic acid treatment in the spatial memory, working memory and recovery of hippocampus atrophy caused by HI. Results showed impairment in the learning task during Morris¿ water maze and reduction in hippocampus volume and area striatal due to HI. Folic acid treatment until the 40th postnatal day was able to reverse significantly the hippocampus atrophy. Therefore, these results demonstrate that folic acid play an important role in the recovery of the ansiogenic effect, aversive memory impairment, hippocampus atrophy and Na+,K+-ATPase activity inhibition caused by neonatal HI.

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hipóxia-isquemia encefálica hypoxia-ischemia Ácido fólico folic acid memória memory atpase trocadora de sódio-potássio na+ k+-atpase

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