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Engel DF, de Oliveira J, Lieberknecht V, Rodrigues ALS, de Bem AF, Gabilan NH. Duloxetine Protects Human Neuroblastoma Cells from Oxidative Stress-Induced Cell Death Through Akt/Nrf-2/HO-1 Pathway. Neurochem Res 2017; 43:387-396. [DOI: 10.1007/s11064-017-2433-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Revised: 10/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Mazur FG, Oliveira LFG, Cunha MP, Rodrigues ALS, Pértile RAN, Vendruscolo LF, Izídio GS. Effects of physical exercise and social isolation on anxiety-related behaviors in two inbred rat strains. Behav Processes 2017; 142:70-78. [PMID: 28602748 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2017.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Revised: 05/29/2017] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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We investigated the effects of physical exercise (PE) on locomotor activity and anxiety-like behavior in Lewis (LEW) and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR) male rats. Rats received either four weeks of forced training, 5days/week, on a treadmill (experiment 1) or were given 21days of free access to running wheels (experiment 2). We also tested the effects of social isolation (SI) (seven days of isolation - experiment 3) on behavior. In experiment 1, 20% of LEW rats and 63% of SHR rats completed the training protocol. PE significantly increased central and peripheral locomotion in the open field (OF) and entries into the open arms in the elevated plus-maze (EPM) in both strains. In experiment 2, the distance traveled by SHR rats on running wheels was significantly higher compared with LEW rats. PE on running wheels also increased the time spent in the center of the OF in SHR rats only. In experiment 3, SI decreased central and peripheral locomotion in the OF in both strains. In summary, forced PE on a treadmill reduced anxiety-like behavior and increased locomotion in male rats of both strains, whereas voluntary PE on running wheels decreased anxiety-like behavior in SHR rats only. SI decreased locomotion in both strains in the OF. This study suggests that spontaneous activity levels are genotype-dependent and the effects of PE depend on the type of exercise performed.
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- F G Mazur
- Behavior Genetics Laboratory, Department of Cellular Biology, Embryology and Genetics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88.040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Behavior Genetics Laboratory, Department of Cellular Biology, Embryology and Genetics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88.040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88.040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88.040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Behavior Genetics Laboratory, Department of Cellular Biology, Embryology and Genetics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88.040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil; Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Neurobiology of Addiction Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, MD 21224, Baltimore, USA
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- Behavior Genetics Laboratory, Department of Cellular Biology, Embryology and Genetics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88.040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
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Nascimento FP, Macedo-Júnior SJ, Borges FRM, Cremonese RP, da Silva MD, Luiz-Cerutti M, Martins DF, Rodrigues ALS, Santos ARS. Thalidomide reduces mechanical hyperalgesia and depressive-like behavior induced by peripheral nerve crush in mice. Neuroscience 2015; 303:51-8. [PMID: 26126925 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.06.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2015] [Revised: 06/16/2015] [Accepted: 06/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND It has been shown that chronic pain is able to induce depressive disorders in humans, in part, due to peripheral inflammation that reaches the central nervous system. However, the mechanisms involved remain to be established. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether sciatic nerve crush could produce depression-like behaviors, in addition to pain-related behaviors, in mice. Once confirmed, this model was used to investigate tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) as a key mediator involved in the pathophysiology of both pain and depression. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Male Swiss mice were divided into three groups, naïve, sham and operated. In the operated group, the sciatic nerve was crushed. Following surgery, animals from the operated group were treated daily by oral gavage (p.o.) with saline (10 ml/kg), fluoxetine (20 mg/kg) or thalidomide (10 mg/kg) for 15 days. Mechanical hyperalgesia was evaluated every 3 days by von Frey filaments and depressive-like behavior was assessed at the end of day 15, using the tail suspension test (TST) and the forced swimming test (FST). Then, samples from the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and sciatic nerve were processed to measure TNF-α levels by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). RESULTS Crush caused significant mechanical hyperalgesia and depressive-like behaviors and increased TNF-α levels in the sciatic nerve, prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of operated animals. Treatment with fluoxetine or thalidomide reversed crush-induced mechanical hyperalgesia, depressive-like behaviors and the increased TNF-α levels in the sciatic nerve, prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. CONCLUSIONS The sciatic nerve crush model represents a good model to study to mechanisms underlying both pain and depressive-like behaviors. Furthermore, inhibitors of TNF-α synthesis, like thalidomide, have a potential to treat depressive disorders associated with neuropathic pain.
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- F P Nascimento
- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Pain and Inflammation, Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil; Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Pain and Inflammation, Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil; Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Pain and Inflammation, Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Pain and Inflammation, Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Pain and Inflammation, Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil; Department of Physiotherapy, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Pain and Inflammation, Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Pain and Inflammation, Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil; Laboratory of Experimental Neurosciences, Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Palhoça, SC, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Pain and Inflammation, Department of Physiological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil; Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
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De Bem A, Engel D, de Oliveira J, Moreira ELG, Neis VB, Santos DB, Lopes JB, Rodrigues ALS, Brocardo P. Hypercholesterolemia as a risk factor for depressive disorder? Free Radic Biol Med 2014; 75 Suppl 1:S28. [PMID: 26461327 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2014.10.753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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AIMS Epidemiological findings demonstrated that increased plasma cholesterol levels are frequently observed in depressive patients. In this regard, there is enhancing evidence that hypercholesterolemia is associated with impairment of brain function. Recently, we demonstrated that low-density lipoprotein receptor knockout (LDLr(-/-)) mice- a widely used rodent model of familial hypercholesterolemia - exhibited memory deficits and cortico-cerebral mitochondrial dysfunction. In this study, we aimed to assess the hypercholesterolemic mice in predictive tasks for depressive-like behavior. METHODS Adult wild type C57BL/6 and LDLr (-/-) mice were evaluated in two tests for depressive like behavior, the splash test and forced swimming test. In addition, the activity of monoamine oxidase isoforms and the mRNA levels of hemeoxygenase-1 were assessed in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex of C57BL/6 and LDLr (-/-) mice. Finally, the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) permeability was investigated using the AQP-4 immunofluorescence staining in the mice hippocampus. RESULTS The LDLr (-/-) mice showed a significant reduction in the grooming time in the splash test and increased immobility time in the forced swimming test, and both parameters were reversed by fluoxetine antidepressant treatment (10mg/kg, 7 days, o.g.). Interestingly, the depressive like behavior of LDLr (-/-) mice was associated with increased activity of monoamine oxidase A, decreased hemeoxygenase-1 mRNA levels and increase of BBB permeability in the hippocampus. CONCLUSIONS Overall, these data provide new evidence that hypercholesterolemia could trigger brain alterations involved in depressive disorders.
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- A De Bem
- Campus Universitário Trindade (Centro de Ciências Biológica), Departamento de Bioquímica, Florianópolis - Brazil..
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- Campus Universitário Trindade (Centro de Ciências Biológica), Departamento de Bioquímica, Florianópolis - Brazil
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- Campus Universitário Trindade (Centro de Ciências Biológica), Departamento de Bioquímica, Florianópolis - Brazil
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- Campus Universitário Trindade (Centro de Ciências Biológica), Departamento de Bioquímica, Florianópolis - Brazil
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- Campus Universitário Trindade (Centro de Ciências Biológica), Departamento de Bioquímica, Florianópolis - Brazil
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- Campus Universitário Trindade (Centro de Ciências Biológica), Departamento de Bioquímica, Florianópolis - Brazil
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- Campus Universitário Trindade (Centro de Ciências Biológica), Departamento de Bioquímica, Florianópolis - Brazil
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- Campus Universitário Trindade (Centro de Ciências Biológica), Departamento de Bioquímica, Florianópolis - Brazil
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- Campus Universitário Trindade (Centro de Ciências Biológica), Departamento de Bioquímica, Florianópolis - Brazil
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de Rezende VB, Rosa DV, Comim CM, Magno LAV, Rodrigues ALS, Vidigal P, Jeromin A, Quevedo J, Romano-Silva MA. NCS-1 deficiency causes anxiety and depressive-like behavior with impaired non-aversive memory in mice. Physiol Behav 2014; 130:91-8. [PMID: 24631552 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2012] [Revised: 02/13/2014] [Accepted: 03/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Sensing and regulating intracellular levels of calcium are essential for proper cellular function. In neurons, calcium sensing plays important roles in neuronal plasticity, neurotransmitter release, long-term synapse modification and ion channel activity. Neuronal calcium sensor-1 (NCS-1) is a member of the highly conserved neuronal calcium sensor family. Although NCS-1 has been associated with psychiatric conditions including autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, it is unclear which role NCS-1 plays in behavior. To understand the involvement of NCS-1 in psychiatric conditions, we provided a comprehensive behavioral characterization of NCS-1 knockout (KO) mice. These mice grow and develop normally without apparent abnormalities in comparison to wild type littermates. However, open field showed that NCS-1 deficiency impairs novelty-induced exploratory activity in both KO and heterozygote (HT) mice. Moreover, NCS-1-deficiency also resulted in anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors as demonstrated by elevated plus maze, large open field, forced swim and tail suspension tasks. Furthermore, based on spontaneous object recognition test, non-aversive long-term memory was impaired in NCS-1 KO mice. In contrast, neither social behavior nor a kind of aversive memory was affected under NCS-1 deficiency. These data implicate NCS-1 in exploratory activity, memory and mood-related behaviors, suggesting that NCS-1 gene ablation may result in phenotypic abnormalities associated with neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- Vitor Bortolo de Rezende
- Laboratório de Neurociência, INCT de Medicina Molecular, Departamento de Saúde Mental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av Alfredo Balena, 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100 MG, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociência, INCT de Medicina Molecular, Departamento de Saúde Mental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av Alfredo Balena, 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100 MG, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociências, INCT Translacional em Medicina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Unidade Acadêmica de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, Av. Universitária, 1105, Bairro Universitário-C.P. 3167, 88806-000 Criciúma, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociência, INCT de Medicina Molecular, Departamento de Saúde Mental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av Alfredo Balena, 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100 MG, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurobiologia da Depressão, Departamento de Bioquímica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário-Trindade, 88040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Patologia Molecular, Departamento de Anatomia Patológica e Medicina Legal, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Alfredo Balena, 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100 MG, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociências, INCT Translacional em Medicina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Unidade Acadêmica de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, Av. Universitária, 1105, Bairro Universitário-C.P. 3167, 88806-000 Criciúma, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociência, INCT de Medicina Molecular, Departamento de Saúde Mental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av Alfredo Balena, 190, Belo Horizonte, 30130-100 MG, Brazil.
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Machado DG, Neis VB, Balen GO, Colla A, Cunha MP, Dalmarco JB, Pizzolatti MG, Prediger RD, Rodrigues ALS. Antidepressant-like effect of ursolic acid isolated from Rosmarinus officinalis L. in mice: evidence for the involvement of the dopaminergic system. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2012; 103:204-11. [PMID: 22940588 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2012.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2011] [Revised: 07/28/2012] [Accepted: 08/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ursolic acid, a constituent from Rosmarinus officinalis, is a triterpenoid compound which has been extensively known for its anticancer and antioxidant properties. In the present study, we investigated the antidepressant-like effect of ursolic acid isolated from this plant in two predictive tests of antidepressant property, the tail suspension test (TST) and the forced swimming test (FST) in mice. Furthermore, the involvement of dopaminergic system in its antidepressant-like effect was investigated in the TST. Ursolic acid reduced the immobility time in the TST (0.01 and 0.1mg/kg, p.o.) and in the FST (10mg/kg, p.o.), similar to fluoxetine (10mg/kg, p.o.), imipramine (1mg/kg, p.o.) and bupropion (10mg/kg, p.o.). The effect of ursolic acid (0.1mg/kg, p.o.) in the TST was prevented by the pretreatment of mice with SCH23390 (0.05mg/kg, s.c., a dopamine D(1) receptor antagonist) and sulpiride (50mg/kg, i.p., a dopamine D(2) receptor antagonist). The administration of a sub-effective dose of ursolic acid (0.001mg/kg, p.o.) in combination with sub-effective doses of SKF38393 (0.1mg/kg, s.c., a dopamine D(1) receptor agonist), apomorphine (0.5μg/kg, i.p., a preferential dopamine D(2) receptor agonist) or bupropion (1mg/kg, i.p., a dual dopamine/noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor) reduced the immobility time in the TST as compared with either drug alone. Ursolic acid and dopaminergic agents alone or in combination did not cause significant alterations in the locomotor and exploratory activities. These results indicate that the antidepressant-like effect of ursolic acid in the TST is likely mediated by an interaction with the dopaminergic system, through the activation of dopamine D(1) and D(2) receptors.
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- D G Machado
- Department of Biochemistry, Center of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário, Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis-SC, Brazil
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Codagnone FT, Consoni FT, Rodrigues ALS, Vital MABF, Andreatini R. Veratrine blocks the lamotrigine-induced swimming increase and immobility decrease in the modified forced swimming test. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2007; 31:1307-11. [PMID: 17619070 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2007.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2007] [Revised: 05/20/2007] [Accepted: 05/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Lamotrigine exhibits an anti-immobility effect in the modified forced swimming test, increasing swimming and climbing, behaviors that are related to serotonergic and noradrenergic effects, respectively. However, these effects could be secondary to lamotrigine blockade of Na(+) sensitive channel. Thus, this study investigated the influence of veratrine (0.1 mg/kg, ip, 10 min before each lamotrigine administration), an Na(+) channel activator, in the effect of lamotrigine (20 mg/kg, ip, 24, 5, 1 h before the test session) in the modified forced swimming test. Veratrine pre-treatment blocked lamotrigine-induced immobility decrease and swimming increase but it did not change the effect of lamotrigine on climbing. These results suggest that the serotonergic effect of lamotrigine in the modified forced swimming test is dependent on Na(+) voltage sensitive channel blockade, whereas its noradrenergic effect is not.
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- F T Codagnone
- Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Centro Politécnico C.P. 19031, 81540-990 Curitiba - PR - Brazil
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Rodrigues ALS, Rosa JM, Gadotti VM, Goulart EC, Santos MM, Silva AV, Sehnem B, Rosa LS, Gonçalves RM, Corrêa R, Santos ARS. Antidepressant-like and antinociceptive-like actions of 4-(4′-chlorophenyl)-6-(4″-methylphenyl)-2-hydrazinepyrimidine Mannich base in mice. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2005; 82:156-62. [PMID: 16153700 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2005.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2004] [Revised: 08/09/2005] [Accepted: 08/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study investigated the possible antidepressant and antinociceptive action of CPMPH Mannich base, as well as the involvement of serotonergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic and opioid systems and the L-arginine-nitric oxide pathway in the antidepressant-like effect of CPMPH in the forced swimming test (FST) in mice. The immobility time in the FST was significantly reduced by CPMPH (0.1-10 mg/kg, i.p.), without accompanying changes in the ambulation in an open-field. CPMPH at high doses (i.p. or s.c. routes) produced a significant inhibition of acetic acid-induced writhing. The antidepressant-like effect of CPMPH (1 mg/kg, i.p.) in the FST was prevented by pre-treatment of mice with methysergide (2 mg/kg, i.p., a non-selective serotonin receptor antagonist), sulpiride (32 mg/kg, i.p., a D2 receptor antagonist) or yohimbine (1 mg/kg, i.p., an alpha2-adrenoceptor antagonist). In contrast, the antidepressant-like effect of CPMPH was not affected by pre-treatment (i.p.) with naloxone (1 mg/kg, a non-selective opioid receptor antagonist) or L-arginine (750 mg/kg, a nitric oxide precursor). The results demonstrate that CPMPH had an antidepressant-like action that appears to be mediated through its interaction with serotonergic, dopaminergic and noradrenergic systems.
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- A L S Rodrigues
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário, Trindade, Florianópolis 88040-900, SC, Brazil
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